I feel sorry for the guys that want to go digital this gen.

Even USB 3.0.

5Gbps is immensley faster than fiber optic.

It is yet limited to the HDD speed... and the internet have direct connection to the bus... no software, driver, interface translate.

It is just impossible the same HDD be faster on external.

What you can have is for example a External 7200 RPM HDD fast than a Internal 5400 RPM HDD lol.

Obviously it's not as fast as internal SATA but USB 3.0 will be fine for running games.

Hell, USB 2.0 is fast enough for running games. I don't notice any diffence running my games from my external 3,5" HDD vs internal HDD. Unless you use SSD's there's no big difference in speed.

Hyperbole :D

The version closer to reality would probably be: No one I know buys disk games on PC anymore. And no one they know. And no one their friends know.

That's true, but plenty of people also is a percentage not worth mentioning :D

But since VGC seems to have completely given up tracking PC games and we'll never see any sales numbers from Steam we'll never know who was right in the end :D

I think I'm missing something, what does the Internet have to do with something that can be done offline/locally?

I'm not really talking speed because I think a USB 3.0 external hard drive is satisfactory (games on USB 2.0 drives on 360s work fine), in terms of ease of use and usability it is better than an internal drive. I'm not sure about the price but I think external drives do tend to be cheaper, too.

Useless. They couldnt even hit 50g.

Not worth it.