Peter Moore: Physical Media Has Another Decade Left

EA Sports chieftain Peter G. E. Moore doesn't know if the next generation of consoles testament feature actualised physical disk drives.

Oral presentation at this year's PLAY Conference during the "The Monetization Halt" panel, former-Microsoft-now-Ea-Sports boss Moore (and Guitar Hero designer Kai Huang and ngmoco CEO Neil Unseasoned) discussed many of the developing and consistent trends of the manufacture over the past fewer years.

Moore wondered if gamers were becoming fed up with versatile plastic peripherals, doubting how long-staple the industry could sustain the trend, saying that if people stopped buying Guitar Hero, Activision Chief operating officer Bobby Kotick would find himself on a mountain of half the domain's plastic.

On the new hand, plastic tangible peripherals aren't exactly something you can assume through digital distribution – one of the other growing trends in the industry. After mentioning that he had recently bought a ROKU box to download movies at his home, Moore was asked when He thought physical media would go the way of the dodo:

"[The industry is] at least a tenner away from saying goodbye to a somatogenic disc. The more important question is what does the next generation of console expression like?" answered Henry Spencer Moore – in other dustup, will the next consoles have physical disc drives, or just rely on connections to the Internet? Either way, helium thinks Microsoft will be the first to make the jump when it does happen.

IT's extremely hard to imagine a potential next generation without disc drives. Not only if would that inhibit the devices' potential to act as secondary media players, but it would only specify the device's appeal to those with a broadband internet joining. Certainly, it might appear like everyone and their parents has broadband these days, but that isn't actually the case. Furthermore, whichever company does go straight-to-digital would probably need to have backups and assurances that if it ever goes subordinate, people pot still access their games.

If anything, I think the next generation will trace the philosophy espoused away Rockstar founder Dan Houser over the release of GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: Everything will be online and digital for those who want to go that way, but it'll also come in a physiologic box for everybody who doesn't want to mount up the digital bandwagon.

(Kotaku, via Videogamer)

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