FFXIII is 32.6GB of movies and just 6.8GB of actual game content

[blaydcor]

Staude said:

blaydcor said:
Hmmm, so the volume of the cut content would have been, what, half a gig at most? Guess all the stupid "FF XIII was gimped cause of 360 version!!" idiots can shut up.

Actually on a dual layered dvd they can use about 6.8 gb of space. The rest is used for various types of copyprotection stuff enforced by microsoft.

 

This means that the 3 disced 360 version will only be able to be around 19-20 gigabyte. And even if they could use it all, it would still only amount to 27 gigabytes. Ofcourse your point is that no gameplay content has been cut because of this.

 

What you have to take into concideration are two things.

1. Compression. If they compress the video too much, it'll look noticably worse. They don't want this to happen.

2. Gameplay content overlaps. In other words. Each dvd has to have a bunch of things that are the same across the three. For instance, your char models, textures and sounds.

 

Ofcourse the second one is much more expansive than I explained but you should get the idea.

 

That's not to say the game would have been any different had it been exclusive. Frankly, noone knows if it would.

Whoosh! My point was that the volume of any cut content would be negligilbe, at the very most requiring an extra DVD; and how much trouble would a 5th be when they already have 4?