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Originally Posted by Mavrick
I'm willing to bet money that not only will it play physical media but that the PS6 will too.
I even doubt that the next console will do 4K gaming when we still don't have consistent 1080p60 games on today's hardware.
All digital is a long way off. The infrastructure just isn't there for all digital. There's still a large amount of people that aren't online. And some that are don't exactly have good connections. ISPs are decades away from making an all digital future possible.
You would need everyone to be on a fibre connection, you would have to have no data cap at all, and no throttling. All that plus at a price everyone could afford.
I'm sorry but I just don't see that happening, probably not even in my lifetime. Not unless companies wanted to lose money by killing off the large amount of sales they get from physical media and ISPs were willing to offer an unlimited service to everyone at low prices which is highly unlikely to ever happen.
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I think people seem to ignore that the goalposts seem to constantly be moving. Blu rays 50gb won't really be big enough for UHD either it seems. Regarding games, I expect 50gb to start getting stretched for 1080p soon enough too.
We need disks BUT I'm also kind of getting sick of having to install every damn game. It's almost defeating the object of having a physical medium since all we do is end up installing and disk becomes a validation method. Don't get me wrong, still rather have a disk.
I actually want to see a faster Blu Ray or something happen where we don't have to keep installing the damn games. That or Sony get its arse in gear to allow external HDD support for games alongside the internal.
4k gaming is possible but it'll be intensive for sure so maybe only certain types of games will be able to push it without taking the system to breaking points. I think resolution hasn't been the issue for games as PS3 could do 1080p and so can PS4 but the PS4 games are clearly able to pull off better graphics. So I don't mind sticking with 1080p but bearing in mind UHD is coming, I want 4k gaming as a possibility and blu ray playback a definite.