Err, TC, you've actually made quite a few mistakes in here. I actually agree Blu-ray isn't needed for most gaming, but not for the reasons you've listed.
Ok, so many of those games you've listed (I'm thinking Supreme Commander, WoW, Medieval 2 Total War, Crysis) are in fact ridiculously huge. In fact, these PC games are probably bigger in terms of content than any console game will be this generation.
HOWEVER, you're forgetting two important facts about them.
1) They are PC games, and thus benefit from the absolutely massive HDDs available to modern gaming PCs. Whereas consoles need to run most data straight from the disk, PC games can compress files, install them on HDDs and then run them off that extremely efficiently. WoW for example, the disk is only needed once, when you install.
HDDs and the installion process makes PC gaming a very different kettle of fish from console gaming, where all the data needs to come from the disk directly.
2) The games are not very space intensive. Yes, their huge, but these are the sorts of games whose bread and butter interaction don't really use the two factors that consume the most space on a disk; CGI and Audio. Contrast this with something like, Final Fantasy, or MGS, and you have games that are actually quite a lot smaller, but need the space more.
This opens a counter argument for the 360 however, that the sort of games that are proliferate on the Xbox (shooters, WRPGs, action adventure) don't really need them either.
So in conclusion, PCs basically work quite differently to consoles in this respect, and while I don't actually feel Blu-ray is needed in the gaming mainstream, the reasons you give aren't correct.
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