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Next Generation Xbox and Playstation Consoles Will Have Optical Drives

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:41AM from the may-the-circle-be-unbroken-and-shiny dept.

First time accepted submitter dintech writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that while Sony considered online-only content distribution for its next-generation Playstation, the manufacturer has decided that the new console will include an optical drive after all. Microsoft is also planning to include an optical disk drive in the successor to its Xbox 360 console as the software company had concerns about access to Internet bandwidth."

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Re:Good. by alen · 2012-05-31 05:50 · Score: 3, Interesting

how are they going to lock out used games on physical media? they will just lock out levels and characters so you are in effect playing an extended demo unless you buy the whole game
Bandwidth isn't the only problem by rokstar · 2012-05-31 05:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

Data caps present another problem. There are plenty of multi disc games out these days and the size is likely only increase as time goes on. The prospect of blowing through a significant chunk of your monthly data limit on a video game could easily discourage sales.