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Personally, given the nature of the current DLC market I find it unlikely they will release this on disc. In the past (as with ES:IV) they did release it in both formats, but at the time the online market was relatively new, and DLC's were a bit of a rarity in general for consoles. They captialized on their expansions by not only releasing Shivering Isles on a seperate disc, but also including the DLCs in the GOTY edition to maximize the incentive to purchase the added content.

I look not only to other current Bethesda games as examples, but just the popular game market in general. The largest releases with DLC out there right now such as the Call of Duty titles, Mass Effect, Halo and many others do not offer the DLCs on disc.

The sad fact is we will likely see the disc format become a bit of an obsolete medium as reliance on high-speed connections to maximize the Xbox Market and developer's lucrativity increases.

To me, the only hope is if they release a consolidated version of the game once the final DLC is released. However, if you already own the game there isn't much incentive to RE-purchasing the game with the other DLCs unless they make the price-point make sense for current owners without access to the online market. (I would hope they would, I'd imagine a re-release including all DLCs would run around $69.99)  Significantly less than purchasing everything seperately.