And they're getting more common. Although there are exactly huge numbers, more and more major releases are having to uses more than one DVD, and pretty sure it used to just be RPGs. Now there are racers (Forza 3 and 4), shooters (Battlefield 3, Halo 3: ODST, Dead Space 2) and whatever LA Noire is classed as, in addition to your RPGs like Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim (I'm assuming that will be a multi-disc game).

downloads are the future, but right now, its still optical disks,

I'm at university and get a horrible connection at the best of times, quite a few students have the same problem, so potentially, thats a lot of consumers (because university students are a group which play quite a few games), lost already because of how hard and awkward it is to download the games

i would laugh hard at how many xbox fans will be like 'blu ray is the best! look my xbox has bluray' after all the shade they threw at sony.. it would be interesting..

It wouldnt bother me. If they use it for games so be it. I still wont be buying bLU Ray films. I have 1080p films on Xbox Live. Al of them which are impossible to scratch or break. Wy would I go backwards in my technology just because its there.

The problem is Sony went to it too soon. It made their console too expensive thus hurting the Playstation brand and ultimately put them billions in the red. It even allowed MS's Xbox brand to thrive.

What does Sony have to show for it? A piece of bluray royalties. Unfortunately, movie sales have dropped due to digital competition, rentals, and piracy. I don't even know anyone that buys movies anymore.

i know he dont have a edge but he did go to vegas and play all the new games coming out and talked to a lot of companies so makes me think he could be right.. he always talks about xbox when im a ps3 guy so who knows

if they do get it i think it'd be for their games, we all know they need more space on disc so they wont have 3 disc games and can make the games look better also

Isn't solid state memory still quite expensive to be used in something like a gaming console? Also, I still wouldn't rely on a download-heavy console/handheld just yet, especially considering that not everyone has access to a very fast internet speed.

before you mentioned that who else in this thread said anything about sony? why even bring that up?

ot anyway what a lot of people don't realise though is that bluray does have some drawbacks like the slow read speed... i hope that next gen if it becomes a standard format for consoles that they sort those issues out or otherwise find some other alternative

Not this again....  >.<