Shiny disc's days are numbered

Chris Kruger

Xbox Europe head Chris Lewis believes the days of media distribution on disks are numbered, GameIndustry.biz reports.

He said, "More and more people's ongoing and ever-increasing downloading of music and movies is becoming the de facto. I think that's going to happen in very short order; people want to consume that way. Before very long we will look back wistfully at shiny discs as something that was a historic phenomenon in a way that we kind of thinkabout vinyl or VCRs today."

It was only days earlier that Sony President Jack Tretton said, "The emergence of Blu-ray as the de facto high-def standard is one more reason why the PS3 is great value to consumers. The combination of strong sales, Blu-ray dominance and widely-anticipated games all point to 2008 as a breakthrough year for PS3."

Obviously both feel their approach is justified, and at the rate people are accepting these technologies into their lives, it seems there might be room for both.