Is Blu-Ray Really Necessary For Gaming?

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libellule said:
from a man that know nothing :

yes BR is important in 1 case : games that are playing in a big world when u dont want loading time.
example : GTA4 !

In this type of game, when you are driving your car to go in the other side of NewYork, you don't want any loading time.

It doesn't mean that the Xbox360 is not able to do it.
It just means that the BR, in my opinion, may be an good help for creating such game.

i don't think that more space in the medium translates into no loading time...you're not watching a movie and what you see in a game has to be processed in some way by the hardware: you may have a tank with 4 gallons of water but you can't fill up a tiny glass with all of those 4 gallons of water...you still have to drink one glass at a time.

 

On the other hand more available space could translate into bigger games...but bigger games are also more expensive to produce so in the near future i don't think that we will see anything but longer CG cut-scenes and better audio.

 

As for the texture quality it's mainly dependant on the power of the graphic adapter..and probably ATI Xenon is more powerful than Nvidia's RSX.