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BW_JP on 10 March 2010
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nightsurge said:
BW_JP said:
nightsurge said:
Damnyouall said:
Welcome to the wonderful world of DRM and digital distribution, where you don't own the movies and games you purchased.

On topic: No physical media needed for distribution? Good luck with those 30-50 GB downloads of future games, of which a whole bunch will fit on those enormous internal hdds.

Please check up on what I posted earlier.  Games via DD would be much smaller file sizes.  For example, a 50GB Blu Ray game on DD would probably only be about 25GB and maybe even a lot less.  So much data is duplicated on discs to ensure they load and are accessible as quickly as possible.  They could easily take a game like FF13 on 360 and release it for DD at only 8GB or so since each disc is filled with duplicated data.

The PC equivalent to an HD console game is usually 10-15GB MAX and yet it still looks better and supports higher resolutions/audio formats.  I'd be perfectly fine buying a 250gb HDD and downloading those games.  My internet could do one game ever 2 hours or faster.

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Dude, I do know what I am talking about.  Sure my guesses for games may not be correct, but what I am arguing about is true.  DD games take less space than physical media in every circumstance.  Sometimes even half the space or less.  Borderlands, for instance, is only a 3.3GB game once installed, but on the disc is a 6GB game.

I think you completely misunderstood what I was saying, bud.  With DD, the games would be developed almost identically with PC and 360.  The architecture is already very similar to begin with, but I wasn't trying to argue PC to console disc sizes.  I was merely making the factual claims taht DD games would NOT be anywhere near the file size of their disc based brothers.

er.. no. Borderlands does not install the entire game. It only installs some of it to help the game play.

You are completely incorrect. DD games on PC are very big. Team Fortress 2 is almost 20gb on my hard drive. 

The architecure is similar? er.. yeah. Similar to a 7 year old PC maybe.  

 

DD games will be smaller, because they will be of far less quality, if you want to make them fit on the 360s hard drive reasonably. 

 

Borderlands is a 7GB download on my PC, and after it installs its much larger. It's compressed for download.

 

Installing games takes MORE space. I really don't understand why you dont get this. Content on discs is compressed. It's decompressed when it's processed. this takes time and processing power. That's a reason why PS3 games look so much better, you can compress much less of the game.