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Originally Posted by GLOW
For how long? I can virtually guarantee you the next Xbox will have a Blu-ray drive. Probably the PS4, too, and I think the Wii will follow suit.
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I sincerely doubt that...
The devs have spoken, they hate BD. They claim this generation of games does not need the space and it has caused them nothing but trouble since it has the slowest read-rate of any optical media on the market.
Maybe a hardware generation or two forward when people have the new "ultra high def" displays they are working on in Japan. At that point we would need the extra space to store texture files that large, but until then I don't see it happening.
There is no need for BD in consoles, it inflates hardware manufacturing costs and makes games more difficult to program, which inflates dev costs.
Don't be fooled into thinking Sony was on some progressive gaming wavelength when they stuffed the BD in there, it was done to get more BD players into houses, not advance gaming...
Besides, even while it might be remotely possible for MS, Nintendo would never do that. If you haven't noticed, they are caterting to a more casual market and lower hardware costs these days. If they were worried about keeping thier hardware state of the art they woudl never have released the Wii, which is pretty much a GameCube with motion sensing controllers.