WilliamWatts said:
Reasonable said:
WilliamWatts said:
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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.
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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.
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Oh sorry, I misread the gist of your post.
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No probs. I know this whole area is an emotive one right now due to SE going on about dropping lots of content. I was just pointing out that DVD remains the basic standard for storage that game developers aim for, the odd bigger RPG aside and with the exception of a few exclusives and some titles like Rage that haven't even released yet.
I believe on console DVD has remained so due to 360 success and year start in the market, somewhat dashing Sony hopes that many AAA games would start aiming beyond DVD capacity with content.
