In an interview conducted by Activision's UK boss Andrew Brown for MCV, Sony's Ray Maguire discussed how soon we could expect to see a download-only future on consoles

Maguire, the Sony UK head, pointed at poor average connection speeds in the UK as the most important factor, although this could all change by 2012 when the government’s Digital Britain plan comes to fruition (it promised minimum 2Mb per second broadband for every home by then).

“Whilst it may be convenient and straightforward to download relatively small files, it’s unrealistic to expect the vast majority of consumers to access and store the 25 or 50 gigabytes of data that make up a Blu-ray release,” Maguire explained. “Therefore, whilst the popularity of and demand for bite-size content will continue to grow, there’ll still be a need for a storage medium that’s both convenient and accessible to the majority, not the minority, for some time to come.”

The interview also took in the thoughts of Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson and Nintendo’s UK man David Yarnton.

[via MCV]