'Certain “highly anticipatedâ€￾ Xbox 360 title filling four discs worth of space'

[Rodéric]

I remember having played Grandia 2, ShenMue (1&2), some Final Fantasy, and it was never ana annoyance, in fact it was even exciting to switch the disk for all the wonders that had yet to come...

I wasn't thinking about online games anyway, all those I know (PSO, ...) are on one disk, for a good reason

 

[ban25]

Some have mentioned in the European Launch thread that the system unloads the game when the disc is ejected. If this is true, how will disc-swapping be handled?

 

[see colon]

older systems did that as well (saturn, sega CD) but, but still had multi-disk games. it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[cloudscapes]

People were surprised Doom 3 was only on three CDs when it came out, at the time a "new" gen game.

People look at increadible graphics and automatically assume it takes loads of space. I remember when I first saw Doom 1 in high school, I was telling myself "that has GOT to be on a CD-ROM, no way it cant be".

 

[3roxor]

People were surprised Doom 3 was only on three CDs when it came out, at the time a "new" gen game.

People look at increadible graphics and automatically assume it takes loads of space. I remember when I first saw Doom 1 in high school, I was telling myself "that has GOT to be on a CD-ROM, no way it cant be".

But Doom 3 used like the same textures + objects over and over again..which also made it look less next gen.

The costs go up for a game who has to use multiple disks and it also isn't exactly a sellingpoint. Furthermore you have to "constantly" open the tray, remove the Dvd and replace it with another Dvd and then put it back in the Dvd case..(yeah I know..)

 

[wco81]

FWIW, IGN said the Blu-Ray drive was the #1 reason for waiting for the PS3 instead of getting the X360 now.

When it comes to storage, new capacity is eaten up pretty quickly. We've seen dramatic growth in storage capacities in consumer products (PCs, iPods, etc.) but you find that people find ways to fill this up quickly.

You see your department at the office get a new workgroup server and despite way more capacity, it gets filled up again.

Human beings just have this voracious appetite for capacity. If they add two more lanes to a big freeway, you would think that would alleviate traffic but in a few months, you get the same traffic jams as more people start using the additional lanes (instead of using alternate roads as they did previously).

Games developers and publishers will be no different. They will make use of greater than DVD-9 space sooner or later. Only thing which may deter them is if the cost of Blu-Ray manufacturing is several dollars higher (which could represent an order of magnitude increase in cost over DVD-9).

 

[kyleb]

Oblivion is the first game I thought of when I saw the title to this thread, I am supprised no one else even suggested it.

 

[PG2G]

I dont think anyone suggested Oblivion because its been stated that they were coming close to filling a single disc, which is a far cry from using 4

 

[scooby_dooby]

Oblivion is the first game I thought of when I saw the title to this thread, I am supprised no one else even suggested it.

because we already know oblivion fits on one disc, ~1/2 of it is audio.

 

[avaya]

I'd go for Too Human or Gears of War.

 

[scooby_dooby]

It has to be something with massive amounts of CG.

So it's basically japanese, I think that's safe to say. I'd guess enchant arm, lost odyssey, or some other unannounced JRPG.

I guess the good news is it sounds like the 360 is getting one hell of an RPG.

 

[one]

It has to be something with massive amounts of CG.

So it's basically japanese, I think that's safe to say. I'd guess enchant arm, lost odyssey, or some other unannounced JRPG.

I guess the good news is it sounds like the 360 is getting one hell of an RPG.

Though the article is unclear, the impression I got is it's about a game which was at X05. An unannounced JRPG can't be a "highly anticipated title".

 

[fearsomepirate]

GI has been very on-the-mark for some of their rumours recently

Like the "Revo uses a touch screen" rumor?

 

[Edge]

What really hurts, if one of those disks are defective, and you have to send the whole package away for a replacement.

That's gotta hurt!

 

[AlphaWolf]

What really hurts, if one of those disks are defective, and you have to send the whole package away for a replacement.

That's gotta hurt!

Well I'd just go back to the place I bought it from rather than dealing with shipping, but that's probably just me.

 

[Zaphod]

The costs go up for a game who has to use multiple disks

Negligible. The cost of a pressed DVD in the quantities we're talking about for a game is less than $0.10.

 

[c0_re]

I call BS, Half-Life 2 for Xbox wasn't even 2 Gigs, if not it's got an insane amount of CG, I woin't buy a game that uses CG it's realtime or nothing as far as I'm concerned. Only hackj dev's resort to CG to make their games look better IMO it tottally kills the emersion effect, I want to play my games not watch and wait for them.

 

[mckmas8808]

I call BS, Half-Life 2 for Xbox wasn't even 2 Gigs, if not it's got an insane amount of CG, I woin't buy a game that uses CG it's realtime or nothing as far as I'm concerned. Only hackj dev's resort to CG to make their games look better IMO it tottally kills the emersion effect, I want to play my games not watch and wait for them.

So I guess you will be missing alot of great games then.

 

[Serenity Painted Death]

I call BS, Half-Life 2 for Xbox wasn't even 2 Gigs, if not it's got an insane amount of CG, I woin't buy a game that uses CG it's realtime or nothing as far as I'm concerned. Only hackj dev's resort to CG to make their games look better IMO it tottally kills the emersion effect, I want to play my games not watch and wait for them.

What language is this? I'm having trouble deciphering.

 

[scooby_dooby]

What really hurts, if one of those disks are defective, and you have to send the whole package away for a replacement.

That's gotta hurt!

I'd imaging the defect rate on DVD's, which are nearly 10 years old at this point, will be an ordere of magnitude lower than defect rates on the initial Bluray discs...