| MikeB said: Cryoakira, Krieger is a nice demonstration, but nothing really new, similar methods have been applied to games and demos for decades whenever this made sense, there are many current and past examples. More space is needed for the long run. High quality textures and audio take up a lot of space, developers will re-use much of the already implemented technology in future sequels for new franchises, creating more audio-visual diversity (for example more levels) with higher quality for such games will require dual layer Blu-Ray discs. On average the PS3's Blu-Ray disc loads faster than a XBox 360 can read a dual layer DVD (12x slows down to 8x, max speed only possible for the outer tracks). The XBox 360's current HD DVD drive is a single speed drive, probably about half the speed of the PS3's drive (the minimal bitrate for all BR players is higher than for HD DVD) I really have to wonder why this misinformation continues to exist, just like much other stuff I read on the internet. |
Hum... Nope, it's hasen't been applied for games much, because procedural requires a high level of mastering and doesn't work with many games. Make a few seach about the subject, and you sell how rare this is.
More space is needed in long run, indeed, but on the current gen ? Don't forget that :
1- despite all their processing power, the PS3 and X360 still have low RAM capacity, so the size of texture you can use remains low. PC games that can use VERY high rez textures and 2Go of RAM, like Crysis, still make less than 7 Go once installed on PC.
2- Because of game budget and content production costs, games are mostly even shorter than before.
And finally, on average, PS3 BR load slower than X360 DVD, on multiformat games.
DVD 12x read faster on roughtly 80% of its surface than BR 1x.
You can find datas (based on officials public specs) here :
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4716/dvdvsbdrs1af.png
You can also find an interesting article from Arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/1/17/6658)
with a little citation " Said Bethesda's Todd Howard, "Drive speed matters more to me [than total capacity], and Blu-ray is slower." "
Obviously, you're the one misinformed about the subject and you should read a bit more on the internet abou it.
