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TK14 on 29 January 2015

I'm pretty confident it's just installing part/all of the game onto the HDD in order to improve the load times.

And even then, in the interview, Takahashi said that the game world really IS seamless. You can run from one end of the map to the other with NO loading. He said the cutscenes are what will cause some load times. 



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baloofarsan on 29 January 2015

Maybe there are some clues here:
Optimizing DVD performance
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee418705(v=vs.85).aspx



jonathanalis on 29 January 2015

double layered disc?



fleischr on 29 January 2015

I'm going to guess it's some kind of Ready-boost feature for SD cards to increase the available memory.



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016

Teriol on 29 January 2015
TK14 said:

I'm pretty confident it's just installing part/all of the game onto the HDD in order to improve the load times.

And even then, in the interview, Takahashi said that the game world really IS seamless. You can run from one end of the map to the other with NO loading. He said the cutscenes are what will cause some load times. 

awesome.



34 years playing games.

 

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EricFabian on 29 January 2015
bonzobanana said:
EricFabian said:


50GB, in fact


Are they confirmed as dual layer? I'd only ever read they were 25GB capacity. 

Is a standard Blu-Ray drive. So I don't think we need confirmation



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The_Yoda on 29 January 2015

I with most everyone else, part of the disc heavily compressed with the option of decompressing that part to the hard drive and loading info from both disc and drive



Frogger on 29 January 2015

It's just an install. Don't effect me since I download all my games.

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curl-6 on 29 January 2015

Sounds like they're hinting at hard drive streaming, but as far as I know, no Wii U game has done this so far, to the point where I wasn't even sure it was possible.



Legendary_W on 30 January 2015
curl-6 said:
Sounds like they're hinting at hard drive streaming, but as far as I know, no Wii U game has done this so far, to the point where I wasn't even sure it was possible.

Isn't that what Rockstar did with GTA V on X360? Reading data from disc and HDD simultaneously. I'd guess that if the Xbox360 could do it, Wii U can do it too (just a wild guess though). I think this is the first Wii U game to almost fill the whole disc, so that's probably the reason why it was never done before, assuming that it is possible.