DVD vs. Blu-ray Games

[Caey]

I also don't see the point at this, I have never ever read a review that stated 'bad point was that the game came on multiple disks'
Even PC games have been distributed on multiple CD's long after DVD was accepted as the new standard.

I think that people think that when you have a multiple CD or DVD set you have to pay more. Look at series where you often have 6+ DVD's. IMAGINE just imagine that same content on one HD-DVD or Blue-ray disk. Well it would be the same content and the same price.

For game i can't imagine the size of a disk being that important. There is on the fly compression available with the GPU and since optical disks are often slow, it's a better way to go because the decompression takes msec while it takes as long to even locate the same data on the disk itself.
Thats why i think Sony should stop bragging around with their 'games need blue-ray' PR: the PS3 is meant to be the holy supercomputer that for the first time in history is so affordable that everyone can have one at home. And that superpower is unable to decompress on the fly, huh?!

On the other hand i wouldn't like CD's any more, yet then CD-players are like 10-15$ cheaper, are 8-12 times as slow and have just maybe 1/10th of the capacity. You could opt for a next gen format then, yet it has about the same troughput (even slower in fact), 3-6 times the space yet it costs like 10 times as much...

Sony just wanted to push Blue-Ray, and it helps: HD-DVD sells 30k a month, Blue-Ray does 60k. So they delayed the PS3 for a year (remember the blue laser diodes), increased the price to an insane level (who has time for an excellent meal if you have two jobs), and is now suffering at the level of PR/reorganisations/Price drops/less exclusives/small install base and all that just because it helped them selling 30k more Blue-Ray movies.

I don't know what there is to earn when you can ask fees for using a optical format but it better be much...very much...