So Ubisoft announced today that they will be doing away with paper manuals for their 360 and PS3 games in favor of digital in-game versions. Personally I have mixed feelings about this because while some manuals are full of useful content and nice looking art (ie. Blazblue's is a fantastic example of what a manual should be), most I come across these days are a waste of the paper they're printed on (Activision and Ubisoft games seem to be especially terrible as MW2 and AC2 had manuals that were not only black and white, but only about 6 pages in length including table of contents and credits/legal jargon, wtf?).

Anyway, how would you feel if this trend were to catch on amongst other developers? I rarely ever look at a manual before booting up a game for the first time, but I do like to flip through them on occasion when I'm not playing to learn more about the storyline, pick up on a gameplay element or feature I might have missed or check out the artwork. For me, getting a manual in the box has grown to be an integral part of the whole new game experience, but with the overall quality of manuals declining as of this generation, it may just be a moot point.