Console Equality

[Reasonable]

WilliamWatts said:

Reasonable said:
Like it or lump it, but getting to market first, and getting the market share it did, the 360 locked most games into DVD level of content or less. Sony titles such as Uncharted 2 will use the BR of course, but most multiplatform games - with the probable exception of RPGs, will stick to one DVD of content.

If that means less textures, more compressed textures or whatever that's what you're going to get.

Simple market economics and realities. Sony will of course push titles with more content, such as Uncharted 2, and where the game needs multiple disks, such as Rage or FFXIII, then one BR disk will be used more effectively.

Just the way it goes.

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Oh really? If they are limited to 6.8GB they would use all space available. As of yet theres no real space pressure. Sony has given a mandate to pimp Blu Ray to its exclusive developers, so of course they are going to throw everything they can into the disc to make it bigger.

What's your point?  Not all games are going to fill a DVD, heck there are games that would barely fill up a CD.  My point is that the 360 established the DVD as the standard in line with PC, vs Sony's attempt to push the notion of BR and games needing more space.  This is a fact.  I'm not saying that games are being held back, simply that with DVD as a standard developers will use that as the baseline, with only occasional games going over 1 DVD and most of those will be Sony exclusives pushing the notion of more content.  Games have always ben developed (and material has been cut) to fit to the prevelant storage medium.  On PC a lot of games did go beyond DVD, but due to the fact you always install they could unpack themselves accordingly.

Calm yourself.

I personally doubt many games will go over DVD for a while, the cost is too high.  However, if we do want better textures, larger worlds, etc. then the DVD barrier will need to be broken.  Right now though that's titles like Rage (when it releases) or Uncharted 2, which will only represent a minority of titles for a while yet I think.