Capcom laments DVD capacity - Lost Planet 2 compromised

[joeorc]

Reasonable said:

starcraft said:
In fact, they don't explicitly say that it involves the Xbox 360. Given the port job Capcom did on Lost Planet for PS3, it is entirely plausible that they had to duplicate too much data for the PS3 given it's Blu-Ray drive's slow read times.

Ultimately though, we know what this is. Hisiru pointed it out. They are just finding ways to make money. If they really made stuff THEN cut it they would offer it as free DLC. But they will actually have set out to have DLC from the beginning.

Certainly by all accounts it is inexpensive to have a game with two discs, Microsoft only charges substantial costs for three or more.

Oh c'mon, stop reaching.  Seriously.  If they're complaining about disk capacity it's not having enough space on BR, that's for sure.  It's entirely unplausible that they're having more trouble with BR capacity to store stuff more than once vs a single DVD.

OT - smells like an excuse for DLC for me, personally.  Why not release if free if its covered by the game's production costs?

If they did cut stuff due to DVD, it is annoying it won't be on the PS3 cut as I'm sure they feel both versions have to be identical, but then for most multiplatform titles the DVD is still used as the default size to aim for with final content levels - a few RPG titles aside.

I don't get why they don't just use more disks, though, with an option to install on the 360 if you want to remove any disk swapping.

Again, sounds to me like they're taking the suspicously easy money route to DLC vs other methods of solving this very solvable issue - if it's even accurate.

the truth of the matter is this In my opinion:

a single layer Blu-Ray disc is 25 GB

a DL-DVD9 is 9GB well its less due to Microsoft section of part of the disc.

the cost to put the game on 2 DVD's compared to the cost of 1 single sided single layer Blu-Ray disc is more expensive for the dveloper.

remember when Microsoft said DVD was still plenty to put game's on , they are right in context it depend's on the game and how its made.

the problem come's down to money spent in production an distribution 2 DISC's packaging cost more than a single disc package for developers because of the extra cost of the disc.

remember also the developer's are the one's putting the story , the art the sound etc. everything else and preproduction and edit has to go through that and determine what need's to be cut to remain within budget.

its not as simple and cut an dry , many thing's go into these production cycle and DLC, while I admit is an incentive for the Higher UP's to want to do that but I do not think it's tied to the developer's point of view, it's In my opinion as with alway's based on who is in charge not so much as the people that work there.