Mr Sony i.e Weaste

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What's gone wrong? The same thing that has happened to almost every large Japanese electronics company. High value of the Yen and the consumer electronics market becoming what you could now call the commoditised electronics market.
 
One of those articles has a point,

How long does Disc formats have left, SSD's are getting cheaper and cheaper and digitial download is becoming more popular, at what point are we like, feck Disc's.
 
I bought an album on a flash drive once. But that was a special case, the flash drive was also useable.

Buying a flash drive every time a game came out would be mental. Disc's are worth pennies.
 
WeasteDevil said:
How do you expect to distribute say a 50-100GB game on a SSD? It costs 70 quid instead of 99 pence. HDDs are not going to replace optical media in any case, digital distribution will.
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Console has 2TB+ Storage Disk (Expandable) and 250gb SSD for mounting images on.

It'll be a few years until games are that large anyway and most people will have fibre broadband by then. Failing that, take a portable drive (the "Storage" drive issued with the console could be could be externally mounted) to a shop and they load your game onto the disk.

Much cheaper for everyone.

Any reason that couldn't work?
 
Companies simply don't have the budgets to hire the manpower for games to be "that big" tbh.

If the games are incredibly vast in what to do and all that, it'll lose in graphics(Blizzard games, Skyrim etc, still solid graphics, but not really up to date either), and if it's a graphics hog, it's not often all that big of a game.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Some games now knock 50GB in size.
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See my post above, why develop disk's large enough to hold the data when people can use portable drives to get the information loaded.
 
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