People keep saying that digital distribution will take over before another disk format, but i doubt it. The people on this site are gamers, and will have faster internet connections. However, many people in the US are still using dial-up. There is no way people could download a game with a 56k modem. I live in oregon just outside a suburb area, and broadband was offered in our area only 6 months ago. All this talk about fiber optic that people will easily download gigs of data is a long ways off. One of the reasons why so many games are offered on cd is because believe it or not, there are a fair amount of people without dvd drives. I have friends who play games who only got a dvd drive in the past 2 years.
I think the days of download-only major titles are a long ways off. Download may be cheaper for publishers, but they want to make their product available to the biggest audience possible.
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