Garcian Smith said:
Also, what significant benefits does Blu-Ray have this gen? Heck, name one. And, no, "no disc swapping" doesn't count. (If you're too lazy to take thirty seconds to get up from your couch one time in the middle of a game and change discs, then maybe the problem isn't DVDs.) |
Both Carmack and Sam Hauser have complained about the storage situation on the Xbox. These complaints are coming 3 years into this generation. The lack of hard drive in the Arcade and the limits of the DVD are problems that developers will need to work around. As you can see from this latest article, ID is redesigning the level layouts to better map to the DVD. If ID truly felt 2 levels was a better design, they would have originally planned for it. The problem with DVD is not necessarily "disk-swapping" because that is just a minor annoyance, (similar to installs). The problem is when developer's will need to limit content to fit on a specific number of DVD's whether it is 1 disk or 5. If a developer can use lower quality textures, or lower resolution cut scenes to squeeze into a lower DVD count they will. This becomes a problem for PS3 and PC users because most likely the publishers will force the gimped version on us as well.
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
