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The rumors that I've seen suggest that they will support optical disks with an emphasis on on-demand downloads.

A disk is a lot cheaper to stamp and print than flash or some type of ROM would be.



Disk drives are dirt cheap, and a single blu ray can hold 25+ GB of data. Try putting that down a 1mb home connection.


Disks are cheap, but disk drives are ~$80. (Consoles are sold at a loss, so this comes directly out of profits.) I don't know how big PS4 games will be, but flash storage could cost 25 cents per GB.

But yea, I think you're right that the optical disks will still end up being cheaper.




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