DD allows some  small developers to grow hopefully to become majors in the future. When it starts to happen we may see a price difference between DD vs retail versions. Who knows if the next consoles wars could be DD vs Box where the DD only console games are $20-$30 cheaper.

 As far as Nintendo , one of the things that help PS to be a success was CD games were cheaper  than N-64 cartiages.

Someday maybe, but no time soon.  I think some of the "city-folk" who don't know shit about the masses of country folk (which makes up a huge part of the overall population) will be surprised at the % that can't get high speed internet.  Until we have universally accessible high speed internet for the millions w/o it, consoles and discs are here to stay.  Developers like to talk high-tech, but forget that such a move would alienate 1/3 of their customers that live in amishville or 50+ miles from a sizable city.

Facebook and iPhones are the future of gaming then?
What a load of bs!

Wow, I can't wait to download a 30 GB game on launch day with 3 million other people downloading it at the same time causing incredibly slow speeds.

With luck I might be able to play the game in under 2 weeks!

But damn! on the 13th day my power got interrupted and the download got corrupted and I have to start over =(

I heard something on the radio something about a cheaper wireless internet is just now starting in some of the bigger cities. So those who doesn't have a fast speed or one company has a monoploy of high speed internet will soon be a thing in the past.

Server-based games make a lot of sense for what Square does. You don't need low latency or responsive controls to watch cutscenes or select commands from a menu.

It's called Preloading.

me too I would quit gaming when this happens. I think when this happens the console market will crash and teach developers and publishers not to get gready and so for sony and ms.

I lol'ed at that.

I can't imagine not having my beloved Legend of Zelda disc.


sighh :'(