The next-generation Xbox and PS will still be equipped with optical drives.

In general, the news itself is not surprising. Despite the fact that now even many models of laptops, ultrabooks and netbooks come out without optical drives, the vast majority of devices are still equipped with them. But the departments of Sony and Microsoft, engaged in the development of next-generation gaming consoles, until recently considered the possibility of creating these devices without optical drives.

The idea of ​​creating a purely digital distribution of games, without distributing them on optical media, was considered. Of course, most console owners would be happy to receive games by simply buying and downloading them, while the consoles could be reduced due to the lack of an optical drive.
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In addition, the idea looks good also because most gamers are now connected to the Web, via a high-speed Internet connection. Fortunately, providers over the past few years have tried very hard, and users of remote regions also have a high-speed Internet connection. True, there are exceptions

But still, Sony management decided to abandon this idea, and optical drives are likely to be abandoned. According to the WSJ , Sony decided to cancel their plans to get rid of the optical drive because of such exceptions. Yes, you can connect to the Network now in almost any country, but in some of them the connection is too slow to be able to count on the console owners to be satisfied with downloading large distributions of their games.

As for Microsoft, the management of this company abandoned the idea of ​​getting rid of optical drives for the same reason as Sony.

Unfortunately, there is still no more or less detailed information about the configuration of the next-generation consoles of these companies.

But Sony, together with OnlLive or Gaikai is going to announce a new cloud gaming service at E3.

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