FFXIII To Ship On "About" Three DVDs On Xbox360

[Wii_Master]

NightDragon83 said:

Wii_Master said:
wait they said that it would have around 50-60 hours of gameplay and it would be on three discs? I mean Metroid Trilogy has 80 hours of gameplay so then why is trilogy on only one disc and FF on three discs when FF actualy has less hours of gameplay then Trilogy...I am sorry if this is a stupid question....

Well, all of the Prime games's cutscenes are done in-game, so there's no memory-hogging CGI cinematic sequences that take up the bulk of the space.

Plus, Prime 1 & 2 were GC games and were designed for the GC's disks which held 1.5 GB max, and Prime 3 was just about the same as the others length-wise... so if the size of each Prime game is <1.5GB on average, and the Wii utilizes standard DVDs which hold 4.7GB... even if the first 2 games maximized the GC disks (which they didn't come anywhere near to), the absolute most you're looking at is 4.5 GB, which is a perfect fit on a standard DVD.

FFXIII on the other hand will contain hours of CGI cutscenes that basically stream off the disc just like a movie does, and they require a massive ammount of memory.  Since it's being designed primarily for the PS3's Blu-Ray discs which hold much more than the 360's dual layered DVDs, they'll have to be broken up into separate discs for the 360 version.

Hope that clears things up for you.

Thanks for clearing that up...That did help..