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

[joeorc]

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.

though the more you use compression the increased likelyhood of compression artifact's are more than likely will be generated. and they in all likelyhood stand out more because of the prebaked lighting because now not only do you have artifact's they are now blooming with light..