yea, changing disks takes away from the game.  its fine if its once or twice or even three times in 40 or 50 hours, but not 30 times in that.

 the other is that pc holds three advantages over 360.  it has a hard drive (which is all three).  it can massiviely chache  data like the ps3.  it can hold large files so they dont have to uncompress them every time (to a smaller extent on ps3).  last it can actually hold data from a second disk on the hard drive, which means a two disk game only uses one disk during play.

haha.... you spelled j/k wrong.... loser...

i kid ^^

you know you dont have to throw a cheap jab at ps3 owners right now.
anyway, you know how open world games play out, you would have to run around all over the place how can you split that up in 3 dvds. imagine in one mission you start at disc 1 point A while Point B is in another DVD... what if point C was in disc 3 then what if the same mission would require you to ride a plane back to point A again. you know how annoying that would be? 

It wouldn't matter for the pc.  You'd just install all the info from multiple DVDs onto the HDD, and it would access the information from there. For both versions, all the data woulbe coming from a single source, whetherit's the HDD or a BD-Rom.

I wonder if it is the size of the actual game data or the amount of hard drive space it needs. With core, you get NO space.

It's not just swapping discs.  Sometimes, even the common data that would normally be copied on every disc in such situations is too large for a DVD.  I explained this about Uncharted in my post a few above (the wall of text :P ).  Such gamesare just not possible without a larger storage medium, no matter how many DVDs you throw at it (unless there was a HDD to store all the data on, ala the PC) .

Also, one problem with multi-disc JRPGs is that when you get to the 3rd disc, you can't go back to areas on the 1st disc. If everything was on one disc, you can go anywhere at any time, so you don't have to worry about not finishing side quests early on. 

And how would sandbox games like L.A. Noire or GTA work with multiple discs?  Imagine switching discs every time you crossed a bridge in GTAIII.  It would be a pain in the ass. 

Somewhat beneficial? You do know that, in 2005, HD-DVD drives were very expensive, right? So 360 launches at $599 and $499, for premium and core, respectively.

Sound familiar?

Yes making music, it could be beneificial, but look how much it has cost sony, and how low sales are.

Sony will lose even more with the ps3 40 gig they are releaseing, and they already lost what 2 billion? And without Blue ray, they could of either limited that debt, or lowered the price of ps3 quite a bit and actually really competed

At this point, the bad is greater then the good

But wouldn't that essentially limit the sandbox-ness of a sandbox game? Having everything take place in just certain sections of the city? Having to switch discs when you get to a new area?  It's not a single, open world anymore.

This is great news for the PS3, one more game that cannot be done on the 360. Sounds like a true GTA game using the power of the PS3.

@iclim4, the VP of Rockstar games already said that the DVD format and the lack of a HDD were wrecking what they wanted to do for the game. Their original vision for the game has been smashed by the weak 360.