id: Rage Not Cut Because of Xbox 360 Limits

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NiKKoM said:

greenmedic88 said:
This would seem to be an open admission that Blu-Ray is a better form of media distribution for games that would require multiple DVDs.

They shouldn't have made any announcements prior to finalization in regards to this as it sounds like id re-designed Rage to work within the storage limitations of the DVD media. Due to licensing fees for additional media on the 360, this will always be a factor.

So instead of a game that potentially could have taken advantage of the greater storage space of BRD, it's now just being reworked to fit on two DVDs.

How disappointing.

 

There was NO CONTENT removed from RAGE because of the 360--NONE AT ALL. Moving from multiple wastelands into fewer but larger wastelands was a far better decision and is actually giving us more gameplay in the game.

 

So the DVD's made it actually better... please read before you post..

WTF!  You need to read it too!

Nothing was cut but he basically admits that design decisions were made based on DVD as the weakest choice - for example 4 plus areas becoming two that would split across two DVDs for 360.

He also says in plain English that PC is best due to HDD, then PS3 with 25GB or so on BR and DVD last with only 6 to 8GB.

So while nothing was cut from the final design the final design was limited soley to accomodate 360 design requirements.  Any how do you even believe that multiple DVDs and swapping is better than a single disk?