Blu Ray the most important part of this generation

[staticneuron]

RolStoppable said:

@static

The primary advantage of cd vs cartridge were producing costs. With cds developers didn't have to get huge sales of their games to become profitable, also if the game bombed the loss on it would be much less than on a cartridge based game. That's reason #1 for the 3rd party exodus 10 years ago: money.

Games for PS3 are a huge risk for developers. Development becomes expensive due to the high detailed HD-graphics, blu-ray discs are more expensive to produce than dvds and the currently small userbase of the PS3 makes it nearly impossible to turn good profits from a game for 3rd parties. This is reason #1 for the 3rd party exodus now: money.

3rd party publishers aren't interested in making the most beautiful or best games, they care for money and profits.

@capamerica

Lair is developed by Factor5.

DVD's cost close to $0.70 to replicate and you can add 15 or more cents per layer. The cost of media between the high def formats actually isn't that expensive. Probably the initial press but then again if you look at the amount that dvd's cost.... to fill a blu ray disc you would have to multiply that by three. Then multiply the replication cost by three. Then factor in the cost of localization (different discs pressed).

Please people, Quit looking out for the good of the industry because they were doing fine with their risks before this generation and your opinions came along. Seriously... it may cost more for them to make a game on blu ray but if it is an amazing game I am sure they will make their money back. I have seen people purchase systems and multiple copies of games because they liked a game that much. The cost of making a game on any of the next generation systems are still a choice. The assets, R&D, sound and the visuals are all up to design. I have heard peoples arguements about game companies competing and that still falls under choice. Comparisons are going to be made no matter what even if they do not make complete sense (zelda vs Sotc, Gears vs resistance, KOF vs streetfighter), and these comparisons are mainly made by the media or gamers themselves. I do not think the companies care as they are getting their money and have fullfiled their internal goals.

@Louie

I gotcha with what your saying. It isn't needed to make a great game but apparently for the ambitions of game developers, it is claimed that they need more space to play with. As mentioned here earlier gears is beautiful but it is really short. If this is the future then something is going to have to give. It is great for people to assume it would be easier to put games on multiple discs but no one is really asking whether or not it would hurt the consumer. It is about what is cheaper, easier and coherent to what the developers have in mind. You may not mind changing a disc but what if it irks the director to make concessions for disc changes?

I can yak on and on but I just hear on forums a bunch of people saying that "blu ray isn't needed, because it doesn't bother me" type sentiment and it really bothers me because it seems as if people think that devs have no knew techniques or creativeness to take advantage of the space.