But one thing I would like to see is, because right now I have issues with Blu Rays, they are slow to load. So I don’t think you will see discs die this generation. So you pretty much say, “hey, sell our console that makes you no profit, and sell no games”. “The second issue I see is that if you go with a version of a console that has no disc, then why would GameStop sell those consoles? The whole market is you sell the games for profit. And if we have bandwidth issues here, you can imagine that it might be worse in other countries. Not everyone can afford to download a game and its patches, there are still internet providers who have bandwidth caps. “There are a few reasons: not everyone has internet, and if you do have internet, a lot of people don’t have enough bandwidth to download 80GB per game. “I think they will have a discless version, but I think that for the next generation there will still be a version with discs,” he said while speaking with GamingBolt.

He feels that discless SKUs might be a thing, but there will also be versions that accept physical media. Marc-André Jutras, technical director of Cradle Games, the developers on the promising looking upcoming science fiction action RPG Hellpoint, feels like discless consoles are unviable for the next generation for precisely that reason.

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