| ChronotriggerJM said: I believe it matters greatly. Its kind of like when FF7 came out, they could have picked nintendo's cartridges as the medium, but they found the disk to have more room, so they tossed in a bunch of Cutscenes and extra's etc etc. It was the vision Square wanted for the game and the disk's let them have the freedom to do so. I've heard people give excuses for disk space like "Well just cut out some of the CGI" or "Who needs 5.1 or 7.1" I mean alot of people can agree with it, but honestly why should you have to "cut" anything? In fact if I could pick up the same game on the 360 or PS3 the only diff. being 7.1 audio? Believe me I'm picking the later. If the creaters can put everything they want on the disk with no "Sacrifices" by all means I'm down for that. |
That may be your opinion but what is more valuable, saving costs on audio encoding or catering to the 1% of the population that actually has 7.1 set up in their homes?
I've been running a very nice 5.1 system for years because it works for almost everything. I don't know a single person who has actually bothered to set up 7.1 or anyone who actually even plans to do it. Most people with the money have a wife who might not appreciate 152 speakers set up around a 60" TV. Mine bitched about the 6 speakers I already use.
There comes a point where features pass from functional to complete and utter overkill. 7.1 is one of those features unless you have a dedicated theatre room, which is why so few people run it.
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