It's really funny how ahead of the industry Nintendo is.

NVidia + ARM + SDcard/SSD storage

Nintendo was already doing modern hardware in 2017, Sony and Microsoft still haven't caught up, almost 10 years later.

Why the heck is there no NVidia + ARM + SDcard/SSD console from Microsoft. Should be obvious.

I will celebrate with you,hope ps5 crashes and burns and ps6 will be such a ficming dissaster they will re release it with physical.

F sony

It's genius really. They make higher profit per game by not having to ship physical games anymore and sell to retailers. They can entirely control their own games market by having everything go through their own digital store. And with everything digital they will have to put way more disk space in future systems which jacks up the price of their future hardware even more. Now sure they might lose a bunch of customers, but each of those customers will be handing them more revenue and they'll be making more profit from every purchase as well. Since the games industry these days focuses not on getting more customers but about getting as much money as possible from the customers they do have, this really is the ultimate strategy for that.

As for me, personally I"ll stick to my huge backlog of Switch games as well as start to buy mostly indies on Steam, while I watch the console industry implode in on itself from greed and bad decisions.

I don't even know what to say. Can't wrap my head around it yet. I love to buy physical. Do you remember that feeling of buying a new game during the 5th and 6th console generation and not only getting a cool box but also a lovingly crafted manual? It was part of the experience, part of the charm. I understand why manuals got scrapped, but renouncing physical games completely? Still can't wrap my head around it.

my, how things can change in 24 hours. 

Im gone for 24 hours and this happens...... I dont own any consoles, but this is not good for any gamer, like physical or not, they do help maintain price balance. I can only assume Sony saw how R* made over a billion with the snap of a finger and knowing full well that GTA6 will be all digital. This must have given then the boldness they needed. PS6 and xbox whatever im almost certain will be 100% digital with no other option. Why this is a very bad thing for gamers (like Sony or not) is that if everything is digital, then the price of the games will not face a second hand market to drive them down later on. Not good at all.

To me and i think many others, physical games are a part of the gaming culture, its like taking away music concerts,its a part of it!

We really strayed away from getting a free Pizza with a purchase of TMNT Arcade on NES or a free Fruit Rollup in the case of Gunstar Heroes. Now you just get fucked in the ass with a barbwire wrapped electric strap on. Anyone remember when games came with full maps of the games world? Like Miracle Warriors on SEGA Master System? Does Gamestop still do pre-order bonuses? I still have a bunch of swag from when I worked there 20 years ago. I wear my Gears of War dogtag when I head out.

Yeah, agreed! And this is a topic that affects us all, no matter which platforms we prefer. The whole industry is heading this way and it's just sad.

There doesn't need to be any more disc space, PS5 disc games already require installs on the SSD so nothing changes there. It must be stressed that most PS5 owners are already all digital as well.

Storage is likely not moving past 1TB for the base PS6 system (too expensive). That's enough for 5-7 games installed at any one time.

The average consumer simply deletes what they're not playing and people rarely play 5 games at the same time lol