Electronic Arts CEO calls Sony's PS3 price cut, timing 'great move'

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MidnightRider85 said:

Euphoria14 said:
@MidnightRider85

The SO4 complaint wasn't that it had mutiple discs, it was that it was so poorly made that everytime you wanted to backtrack (ie: When doing sidequests, item collecting, etc...) you had to swap discs for each planet you had to visit.

So if I had to visit 4 planets for one quest that takes me 10 minutes that would be a disc swap every 2.5 minutes. Suppose I went to the wrong planet on accident and then go to the correct one that would be 2 swaps in less than a minute.

It was very irritating for people who like to explore and complete the sidequests.

     Well. there will be more disc swapping on ffxiii unless you install to your hdd.  Itagaki said that to have included just the two minute trailer for doa in the quality he would have wanted for the 360 version, then it would have taken up 2 gig of the dvd 9 disc (he probably would have wanted to put in all the character movies, etc, in the same quality which would have completely filled the disc). 

(http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news040705itagaki)

 So, that is 2 minutes taking up 2 out of 9 gigs.  Add in the fact that if it is like past FFs, then there will be 45 to 60 minutes of cinema scenes in FFXIII, so that boosts the size of FFXIII if kept in the same quality Itagaki wanted for DoA out to 45 to 60 gigs of space (just counting the cinemas, not counting the game itself).

Let's say that FFXIII has 45 minutes of cinema and 15 gigs are used for the game itself.  That makes it a 60 gig game.  Now there are three options that can be used.  It's quality can be compressed to get it down to 30 gigs still filling up 3 to 4 dvd 9s.  Or you can keep it in uncompressed form which seems to be what Square seems to be intent on doing and that means  you would either have to disc swap 5 to 6 discs at various times while playing the game or you could go with the easier option of doing a hdd install so you wouldn't have to do disc swaps but that would take up 60 gigs of hdd space.

You do realize that what you're proposing is that the game can't even fit on a single Bu-Ray, since your estimation is 60GBs and the BR discs go up to 50. Also you might want to not take Itagaki's statements as gospel considering he's essentially saying that every minute of true HD video is 1 GB in space. This means that somehow the entire library of Blu Ray movies are not true HD since they don't clock in anywhere near 1 GB for every minute of video. That would make an hour and a half movie fill up 90GBs before we even get into special features, menus, etc.

So again, think twice before you take his word as gospel.