FFXIII To Ship On "About" Three DVDs On Xbox360

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makingmusic476 said:

Gnizmo said:

makingmusic476 said:

Like I said in another thread, the game being "smaller than Lost Odyssey" (seriously, does that even matter? =/) probably has to do with Microsoft's licensing fees per disc. It's no surprise that the only 4-disc 360 game was published by Microsoft, thus negating the licensing fee. The first 3-disc game was also published by Microsoft (Blue Dragon) and there has thus far been only one other 3-disc game (Star Ocean 4).

There is no licensing fee per disk. There never has been, and there never will be. The quote was mis-intepretated, and has been clarified many, many, many times now. There is extra cost to using the third disc due to manufacturing only. There is no extra licensing fee for more discs.

Since when?

And why would maufacturing costs be an inhibiting factor for the number of discs used?  DVDs cost less than 10 cents a piece when mass produced.  The guys at id are probably spending more on the BD-Rom for the ps3 version of Rage than they would on 3 DVDs. 

this is true, IF they package the other discs in sleeves.