Comments on: Will the PS4 have an optical disk drive?

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:14:28 +0000

Imange Sony and Pionerr teaming up and using Pionerr’s 400Gig Blu Ray disc, that would be a site to see.

By: toto

toto — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:59:16 +0000

there better be a PS4 and with a disc system. Because of the playback needed to play PS3, Ps2, and even PS one games. I wouldn’t buy it if i had to download all my games.That’s just crasy and it could take days to download a long, and high quality game. Disc all the way!!!!!!

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PS4 Zone » PS4 to Dump Blu-Ray for Holography? — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:01:00 +0000

[...] course you also have to wonder if the PS4 will completely do away with an optical drive and go based on downloadable content only. With Virgin Media testing 200 Meg connections at the [...]

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PS4 to Dump Blu-Ray for Holography? — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:09:22 +0000

[...] course you also have to wonder if the PS4 will completely do away with an optical drive and go based on downloadable content only. With Virgin Media testing 200 Meg connections at the [...]

By: james braselton

james braselton — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:33:45 +0000

HI THERE OH FORGOT SCINTIST ARE TRYING TOO FILL A 50 TERABYTE AND 100 TERABYTE HALOGRAPHIC DISC

By: james braselton

james braselton — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:32:10 +0000

HI THERE YOU RIGHT HERE WE GO AGAIN WHEN I BOUGHT THE PS3 I HAD TOO ALSO BUY BLUE RAY PLAYERS NO SONYS GOING UPGRADE TOO THE MOST EXPENSIVE DISC PLAYERS ON THE PLANET WITH HALOGRAPHIC DISC I HOPE SONY GIVES REBATES TOO BLUE RAY OWNERS BECUASE WE HALF TOO BUY HALOGRAPHIC MOVIES AND GAMES ON MOST HVD WEB SITES SAYING THAT A HALOGRAPHIC DISC COST BETWEEN A WHOPPING $80 AND $150 PER DISC AND PS4 WILL USE ULTRA HIGH DIFFINITION TOO SOO BUY A NEW TV ALSO PLUS THE CONSOLE BUY THE TIME YOU ADD UP YOU NEED TO START SAVING UP A LOT OF MONEY IF YOU WANT A PS4 OR XBOX 720

By: D. Woods

D. Woods — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:47:23 +0000

I belive DDL will never replace optical discs but they will co-exist. DDl will serve as a option only. And pioneer just introduced a 400gb blu-ray disc. And they said they also going up to 1TB. So Sony’s ps4, 5 or 6 should’nt have to fear storage capacity in optical discs.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:41:50 +0000

I think sales distribution is far more important than technical capability. Yes, we have doubts about whether the Intertubes will be able to carry games – see http://www.neoseeker.com/news/8714-ea-digital-distribution-wont-diminish-retail-game-sales-for-the-next-20-years/ for example – but in the end, whether or not they can really does not matter that much.

From the figures I have seen, the vast majority of games are sold at retail, and the majority of those are picked up on the strength of advertising by people who actually do not play games themselves. “Hi, get me something for my 10-year old niece, she has a PlayStayShun” – “Yes ma’am, we recommend “Barbie: Horsies Extreme!!” this week, that’s $45 with instant rebate right now”

That “buyer demographic” won’t change any time soon, and that means that Internet distribution will only matter to a small portion of the marketplace. I see Internet as a way to deliver additional content and, alas, fixes, to be sure – but not whole games as the exclusive delivery method for a console.

By: Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:38:30 +0000

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By: Pimp My Console » Blog Archive » PS4 - A product withot a optical drive?

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:08 +0000

[...] While its too early to speculate anything. Its a great topic to discuss. You can read more here. [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:05:24 +0000

xlbLoOdlx,

Calm down. There is no point flaming people on their opinion.

The majority of the data stored on the disc is the texturing for the game itself. The graphics card simply works with the textures on the disc to make the game realistic.

In the late 90s, we had games between 50-200MB and i’m sure at that time people were skeptical that games weren’t going to be on 50GB discs, technology improves and consequently space has to improve and increase as well.

As for a Optical-driveless PS4, I doubt that will happen. I’m in Australia with a decent download rate of 20Mbs and an allowance of 25GB and pay quite a bit for the privilege. I’m sure there will be an availability to download either demos and minor-release games (eg. Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty) through their Playstation Network.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:36:02 +0000

Consider the Macbook Air, or other notebooks which have no optical disk drive. They have the ability to download/ install programs wirelessly over the Internet, so why couldn’t the PS4? And for those without high-speed Internet they could get a stand alone blu-ray drive (or whatever the PS4 chooses) much like the Superdrive you get with the Macbook Air, which connects via USB and allows physical media to be used.

People keep asking what if a HDD fails, well…what happens when your computer HDD fails? You spend hours recovering and re-installing data. And to be fair, it’s pretty rare that that ever happens.

Just my two pence. Again, it’s purely speculation but I do enjoy talking about it