[Maztorre]

That's kind of a misnomer.

A better example would be people rejecting mp3s as a format because they aren't as high quality as SACDs or whatever, which they aren't (in droves!!).

Sony were just too late with Blu-Ray from a manufacturing standpoint and also the speed at which they pushed through HDMI as a standard (there was a hubbub about that wasn't there?). We'll be using non-physical media in PS4, with a disc drive as a legacy device if anything.

[Maztorre]

Steam, the Nintendo VC and I believe Playstation Network all record your purchases so you can restore your content to a new HDD or other device.

I think it was Phil Harrison (could someone dig up the interview? I'm at work) who said that PS4 will probably forgo discs for most content. Based on their proposed 10 year lifespan for PS3, I'd say he's probably on the money.

But yeah, throwing in a cheap DVD/BRD recorder for backups if necessary would be pretty nice next-next-gen.

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