CommonMan 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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Good post nightsurge! My guess is this will either/or be ignored or trashed though.
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i dont think that much is lost due to multiple spots of data, sure if its contiguous its faster but the disc drive should have no problem with it the shifting of the laser takes a fraction of a second, after ripping roms (for my own personal backup) you get an idea of how much space what takes up and where,and cgi and audio takes up probably 70% of the discs anyway, givin that multiple sets of the same data are on each disc id say a DD version of this would be like 18-21gb. and even if it could fit on 8gb dd like nightwish thinks wouldnt they only used 2 (18gb) dvd instead of 3(27gb)
