blu-ray would definitely be needed....especially when there are talks about games like ff13 might be multi-disc on blu-ray...i dont think having 6-12 dvd is pleasant at all...i would hate to swap discs 11 times just to play thru the game...

could u imagine if we still used cd instead of dvd??...oh man...lost oddysey on 40 cds......or even mgs4 on 60 cds....that doesn't sound too good....people always want it on less disc if possible...so they will tend to go with the less disc option if possible...if people had a choice to choose a game on 1 blu-ray disc vs 6 dvd...most people would choose the blu-ray option...especially in gaming...

i dont think companies will make the game more expensive just because it's on blu-ray...ps3 games being same price as 360 games are good examples...if microsoft chooses to still make dvd for the next gen gaming....they'll just be shooting themselves in the leg...

With the current littany of problems sony is currently facing, both M$ and Ninty could secure a SWEEEEEEET ddeal from Sony to put brd in their next consoles.

I doubt most games would need to use much more than 16 GB, especially now that in-engine type cutscenes are becoming more popular. Also you wouldn't have to use FMV as a cover for loading as a SSD would load blisteringly fast. The only genre that really needs the space is JRPGs and they could easily switch to in-engine cutscenes to cut costs and if they can't its not like its an important genre anyway.

Nintendo won't need BR.

I fink they will release games on USB Flash memory sticks at 32GB which will, if mass produced, cost rufly $8 for the launch of the Xbox 3 in Nov 2011.

HD-Dvd is much more sensible for MS than either dvd or bluray

that isn't cost effect still, and still restrict what can be made.

a 16gb flash memory will never be cheaper as a 15gb disc.

even if the flash memory drops the price the disc based one will always be cheaper since it was  cheaper before to manufacture, and i got way cheaper with the time also.

so unless its cheaper to mass produce than disc, anything from flash or SSD based storage for games it's not possible.

64gb-128gb SSD are right now way expesive, getting close 500$.

You can get a 16gb SSD with 170mb/Sec read speed for $70 on Newegg. The actual drive probably costs less than $30 to manufacture, considering the ammount of markup is needed to pay for research and development.

By 2011/2012 they could produce it on the 32nm process and easily fit 4-6x the information on the same quantity of flash and produce disks which cost less than $5 with over 300mb/sec read speeds, which is about 2x faster than a 4x Blu Ray drive with very little latency.

So a console with a Flash drive can be produced simpler with a simpler motherboard as it would need less ram, no disk drive which would probably cost $40 for a high speed Blu Ray that would be pretty much fixed for the life of the console.

From the consumer perspective it would allow people to take a blank drive into a store and rent games by just using a Kiosk, so places like Best Buy could increase their revenue without using much floor space to do so and developers would also love the ability to implement DRM on the disks themselves, say allow for only up to 3 or 5 consoles to use the disks and kill the massive resale which can be a problem, obviously it would still allow you to Ebay the items.

NO. But they can't stick to DVD9

Alot of R&D is being done on flash memory to utitlize the profileration of usb ports, so if you look at the current prices for 16gb stick, in 2 years, it will be dirt cheap to reproduce, and in a few more years, it will continue to drop even faster as it's usage increases...minimum licensing fee is the key...recurring charges.