CDs, really ?

I may well be wrong, but I believe we are now in the year 2007. Vista just shipped. OS X 10.5 is coming in a few months. Our computers now have 1 or 2 GB of RAM. New games require that much to play. And yet they ship on CDs. This, to me, is baffling. The debate has been going on for a while now but what really pissed me off this week was looking at the PC games at Futureshop (canadian Best Buy). Here in Montreal, we usually have 2 versions of the games. The first one is the US game. This one is usally on CD because who know, maybe somebody who doesn't own a 15$ piece of equipment might want to play the latest games. The other version is the european version so that we can get a french version of the game. Now, the european version is usually on DVD. (it's also in french, which is why I don't buy it) I really, really wish I would understand that. I don't. A DVD-Rom is so cheap nowadays and *all* new computers have had them for years. Is there a reason Company of Heroes ships on CDs here and on DVD in europe ? CD-based games are longer to install, there's a risk you might damage or lose one disk ... there's just no reason to want to ship a game on 5 CDs when you could ship 1 DVD. Heck, the "next" generation of DVDs are already on sale now. Isn't it time to assume people who wants to play a game that requires a 1500$ computer will have a DVD drive ? I mean, we might as well ship floppy disks just in case.