Idea for future of PC games

[davva]

That could possibly be worth the extra 5 dollars production costs passed onto the consumer, who doesn't want to bother with HDD space &c.

I don't see how a small indie dev. team could afford that + regual CDs/DVDs (or if even one of them) sure they have gotten a lot of sales but not nearly as much as they need for getting retail off the counter copies in Europe, North + South America
(well i don't know that, just assuming, because there is no retail in the store copy, except for Russia)