What will be funny is the first MS XBOX360 game to be bigger than 10 Gigs, and "require" people to install it or parts of it. Yet we just went through the 4GB debacle, so whats going to happen now.
People still rub the price of the Systems in my face, but when you get down to the basics, they are equal. I love he people... you can get an Xbox for 199 or 149.... But you have no storage, so you have to buy their Proprietary HDD which is another 100 or so. So you want wireless, well thats at least 60 to 80 dollars.
The PS3 just came with everything it needed, and it cost more, but the consumers tend to look with one thing, their wallet, and not think about the cost of everything in the cart being at or more than a base PS3.
I think Digital Downloading is great, but its not perm, and the media tends to get overwritten or aquire errors a bit easier. A strong magnet for a science experiment (Had this happen for real) or a lightening strike the house (again for real and had all the protectors in the world) and I lost EVERYTHING. The only way to have saved that would have been a house surge protector installed by the power company... talk about an investment.
Right now we are at 25 gigs per layer with 1 and 2 layer discs... A format upgrade has been approved and will be a simple update for 99% of players that will upgrade them to 33 gigs per layer and set them up to allow for 4 layer reading (but only 2 - 33 layer writing). Thats a good chunk of space on one disc. 132 Gigs per Disc is pretty damn'd impressive.
"Microsoft will stay with 9 Gig per disc and make you have a 1 Terabyte HDD in your system.... buy if we had 6 games max out the 132, there goes the HDD... Think about all the disc swap.
Please insert Disc 4 side 2.... Please insert disc 12 side 2.
Until we all live in South Korea or Japan and have 100/100 to our house, Blu-ray will live a VERY long life in the world. Not just the US.
People FORGET very quickly that the US is huge (Now this will sound bad, but most liberals forget that.... they are the ones that tend to say if it works in Sweden or Denmark or Amsterdam, its because of how small they are, sorry if I offended anyone, not my intent).
I like the idea of opening one disc, putting it in, and not having to worry about switching them out, it just does not work.
Microsoft/Adobe doesn't see their own hypocrisy here do they... they complain about Apple being closed and not allowing Flash to be used, and here we are, in the same position, except with the object being those that want Software on a Blu-Ray drive for MS, or the ability to have one. DVD-9 can only hold so much and so many textures and not everyone will have an internet connection, and eventually not everyone will have one fast enough. Sony will have this covered, hell they have had it covered since day one. Microsoft will be the ones hacking and slacking their way to the near top... but always be a step behind and always have a finger in their customers wallets."
Most of this is my personal opinion, the parts in quotes are, and I didn't mean to offend anyone who is liberal as I'm socially liberal, buy fiscally conservative. To each his own.... I will carry my small bag with the latest game home, while "Jack" will arrange a delivery of the game to home as it weighs too much to take home.
Irony, and parody what would we do without it??? Oh wait, ask the Chinese..