| Louie said: That´s what I said about cardridges too back in the PSX/N64 days: You could still make games on them but it was much easier to develope for a CD and you cut put all your cutscenes on a single CD - every N64 game developed by Nintendo was without pre rendered cutscenes cuz there was not enough space on a single cartdrige. that was pretty funny for me as a PSX owner |
You're right, the N64 games used realtime rendered cutscenes because they actually had the horsepower to do it in realtime. What do you think the FMV was being pre-rendered on? SGI workstations. Who made the graphics chip for the N64? SGI. That was funny for me as an N64 owner. :)
The point of the above paragraph isn't to say Nintendo was superior to Sony, because that's not even remotely the topic of discussion. The point is that there is more than one way to skin a cat. If the only reason you need Blu-ray is because you want to use 1080p FMV, then do it in realtime instead. Realtime, in-engine cutscenes provide better continuity with the rest of the game. Even better, they're interactive! If you're rendering a cutscene in realtime, you can change it in realtime based on the player's input. I don't buy video games to watch them, that's what my DVD player is for.
Devs talking about streaming data and larger RAM storage have a point. Devs talking about not enough space for video do not.
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