God of War III utilises 35GB of Blu-Ray space

[MikeB]

WilliamWatts said:

MikeB said:

flowjo said:
so if this game was on 360 it would need 4 discs ... for an action game??

ohh man its gonna be awesome.

35 GIGS!!! im gonna smell my copy and admire it for like 5 mins then play it

360 DVDs hold no more than 6.8 GB of gamedata, so with equal level quality audio and textures 6 DVDs and potentially even 7 as developers usually resort to data duplicated when spanning a game on multiple discs (for consumer convenience).

It could probably fit into one DVD easily with a next generation GPU. They could do all the lighting prebaked into textures in real time. I suspect this type of game will be uncommon in the next generation because of this. 10:1 vs 8:1 texture compression helps as well.

Can you provide a source? I only read about their advanced HDRL technology, thousands of dynamic light sources and quadrupled resolution for textures.

I think the only option to make the data that small would be procedural synthesis, which almost always results into far inferior end results compared to hand drawn assets.