Next Gen GTA game will be PS3 exclusive

[LunchBox]

If the majority of the Xbox 360's have harddrives, what's stopping Rockstar from porting the PC version to the 360?

I would imagine the sales would be worth their time...

there will only be 13 GB of available space...

the rest is reserved for system protocols/emulation/etc...

 

[mckmas8808]

Umm, there are several people here who think the lack of a high capacity drive will make games rather crap on XB360. They think XB360 is going the way of N64 because it has a lack of storage for games.

The way I see it, if you take 2% of the man-hours and dollars you used to create 50GB of game assets, and put it towards data compression, you'll easily fit it on a DVD, and if not, then you'll likely be broke.

Well good thing I'm not one of those people that thinks the DVD only drive will make the X360 have crappy games.

 

[c0_re]

We're not talking about listening to Brahms or Mozart here. We're talking about voice acting, sound effects, explosions, etc. Most DVD audio runs Dolby Digital at an aggregate of 384Kb/s for dialog, music scores, etc for 5.1 channels. I think youd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 128kb/s or 192kb/s for voiceovers and sound effects in a video game. Now if you want to record the background music in a higher format i can live with that.

In addition, i think the sounds WILL be in WMA based on this comment from Todd Holmdahl:



Sounds like WMA doesnt need to touch the CPU to be decompressed so it will probably be the codec of choice anyway. EDIT: On the 360, that is.

gotchya thanks for clarifying Expletive

 

[expletive]

I very much doubt that a high-rez-next-gen-gta texture is going to occupy the same as one of those low-rez gta-ps2 textures, regardless of compression(unless you throw quality out the window). And considering the games also traditionally increase exponentially in size from game to game....

Probably not but if we go from 2:1 or 4:1 to 8:1 compression wouldn't that go some ways to balance out the texture improvemens this gen? These improvements would (obviously) constitute 2-4x LESS space required for textures. Maybe textures will increase more than 4x but still, i'll take savings...

1. Does anyone know the texture compression available/used on xbox1 compared to whats available on the 360/ps3?

2. Does anyone feel like we need FMV quality better than whats on sometihng like Ninja Gaiden?

3. What codec is that (the NG FMV) and how much space does it take up?

 

[joebloggs]

More space = good

Not very technical I know but it's quite amusing to see the dance of people overplaying/underplaying a feature to suit their wishes or alleviate their fears.

 

[c0_re]

Probably not but if we go from 2:1 or 4:1 to 8:1 compression wouldn't that go some ways to balance out the texture improvemens this gen? These improvements would (obviously) constitute 2-4x LESS space required for textures. Maybe textures will increase more than 4x but still, i'll take savings...

1. Does anyone know the texture compression available/used on xbox1 compared to whats available on the 360/ps3?

2. Does anyone feel like we need FMV quality better than whats on sometihng like Ninja Gaiden?

3. What codec is that (the NG FMV) and how much space does it take up?

FMV just needs to die out, I hate when I see FMV that looks different than whats in the game it tottally kills the experience. Whats the point in wasting all the time and money on FMV artists when everything should be done in engine anyways.

 

[expletive]

FMV just needs to die out, I hate when I see FMV that looks different than whats in the game it tottally kills the experience. Whats the point in wasting all the time and money on FMV artists when everything should be done in engine anyways.

I agree but for some reason devs still seem intent on using it....

 

[c0_re]

I agree but for some reason devs still seem intent on using it....

Only the Japanese developers and FMV is expensive to make, FMV is going to way of the dodo like it or not. It's just not needed anymore and the cost can't be justified, not even in Japan where China is pretty much going to destroy their economy, Japn is shrinking every year in many many aspects.