The man in the pic there is Xbox executive Chris Lewis, who has branded disk-based media, including Blu-ray as a thing of the past. ‘Going forwards, digital downloads is really where it’s at,’ Lewis told GamesIndustry.biz. ‘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 somewhat a historic phenomenon in a way that we kind of think about vinyl or VCRs today.’ Perhaps someone needs to tell Microsoft that the Xbox 360 still requires these ancient ‘shiny discs’ to make its games work, especially as hard drives are a luxury on the 360. Oh well, here’s another tissue.