You fool!

Tough, it's not up to you Cliffy.

Downloading 20 gig games is not my cup of tea thank you very much Cliffy.

I'm fine with no discs on consoles... As long as the publishers reduce the prices of games seen as they have no trade in value, no cases, no booklets, no discs, no manufacturering process to pay for and no distribution costs.

We all know that won't happen though. They'll make some rubbish excuse up for why we have to pay more.

My internet ain't fast enough yet.

Please, we do not all have 100Mbps internet ...yet. And I like to trade and borrow games from my bro.

I want my shit on a physical copy. Disc

Great developer of games, crap businessman... What kind of fool would opt out of physical media this early on in the piece.....He's a gen. at least too early & would either be cutting his games, like Gears, down to bitesize pieces that would equate to more episodic-like 2-3hr games that are souless, $20 rip-offs that have us poor consumers (un) lucky enough to have the interweb, eating from the palm of there hand & paying $180 (at least) to get a full game similar to the length & content that a disk based game like COD or such afford us.

These geese developers like ol' Cliffy should shut up, & stick to developing videogames & leave the other, business stuff to the people good at it.
I don't want bite sized, mobile phone like downloadable titles scattered all over my hdd.
These guys just don't want to understand that there biggest market, the casuals, aren't as tech savvy, & don't care or even know what speed internet they have & what there download limit is.
Then, even for more on the ball mid level to high level hardcore gamers, not all of us can afford the type of speed internet needed to download big a$$ game files, & as well as the ammount of gigs per month that is needed.

My, as well as most of Europe (which is THE BIGGEST market in the world), do not have access to internet prices, speeds, etc, etc, to be able to make this a viable option at this stage. I would guess that 2 more gens would be needed to rely on physical media, then when PS6 arrives along with Wii-U,Me & Everybody, & Xbox 1920, will arrive without any means of taking physical media. I am not looking forward to that day, but nothing can be done.

It'll happen when we have free internet.

aint gonna happen buddy. takes me 2 days to download 15gigs soo this would kill me.

Console's doesn't want Bleszinski on next-gen
Fixed !!

The day consoles go digital is the day i stop playing them.

I don't want to wait an eternity for a game to download. given my connection speed i could walk downtown, buy a physical copy, walk home and clock the game before i had finished downloading the digital version.

Not to mention servers can go down at the drop of a hat. If the servers did go down at 99% of a download how do you get a refund for that?

I expect in the next generation of consoles that every game will have a digital copy available to download. However physical copies will still exist and they are not going anywhere in an extremely long time.

What cliffy said is just stupid in my opinion.

These dev's really think we are that stupid... Yes Clif, we know you would love a download only future... so we can't lend your games to our friends who maybe don't have the money to buy it or sell it back to the preowned market so we have a bit more money to add to our next game purchase.

No doubt when they get the chance to do digital only, they will start chopping up the games into chapters and episodes while charging more for each one. Before you know it the overall price of a regular game will be a £100 because they are charging $10 for each level of the game.

At that point I think I will quit gaming altogether

Maybe because gears plagued Craigslist postings??

A developer doesn't want discs next gen? Gee I wonder why? Maybe it has to do with removing even more consumer rights by making everything digital only, maybe it has to do with a tighter grip on that almighty dollar.

Either way it's not going to happen. If it did, a lot of people would just give up gaming. ISP's aren't charities and they love bandwidth caps because they can charge extra for going over that cap. DL'ing games would be murder on those caps and with the way the economy is today most people simply wouldn't be able to afford all those costs. These idiot developers who think like Cliffy B don't care to realize that.

Not suprised a dev is happy to see the end of physical media. Easier to control digital copies and licenses.

I for one am old skool. I like, nay demand a physical copy that is mine to play when I wish offline and to have in my collections.

Easy, sell disc but full installs might be required if devs want the performance boost over optical media.

If I didnt like physical media I wouldnt have 500 blurays.

I'd just download BR rips for free.

I do. Sometimes I hate waiting an entire day for a game to download if its just easier to buy a disc.

why so he can charge $60 years after Gears of war 9 is out?

Well too bad. Because he's getting them.

I wonder if discless next-gen consoles will be an option for those who don't own a credit card. How will they be able to buy games if they're all gonna be digital-download?

Unfortunately his comment doesn't specify if he meant physical mediums in general or just the optical discs themselves. Quite honestly I don't see what the delivery system should really matter to the developers. If it's a I/O speed issue then they will likely have ways to install or have some sort of swap buffer storage or something. Research in that area would be more beneficial than just getting rid of the disc tech because you don't care to do the research.

Disc media is cheap to produce, and not subject to pricing fluctuations that physical memory devices have. On top of that disc based media will likely always be cheaper to produce on a per-unit basis than static memory carts.

Given how much it costs to make games and how long that takes, getting the games into the most gamers hands is not only best for all gamers, but studios and the industry.

"lead designer on the first three installments of the Gears of War franchise"

Any developer of a game old or new would be happy it's going to make more money.

August 26:
Gears of War on PlayStation
Helldivers 2 on Xbox
What a day to be a gamer!

Cliffy doing his best to be relevant and cool again.... sorry you Madde dumb decisions bro.

Yet, he was the one who bragged about it being exclusive, because he didn't like the PS3/Controller. Remember he used to attack people for asking if the game was coming to other platforms.

This guy is such a dork.

Hasn't been Xbox exclusive for a decade

Never thought I lived long enough to see this