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twesterm on 07 January 2011
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The Anarchyz said:

25GB Blu-Rays cost that, 50GB Blu-Rays don't...

Wikipedia listed an average of prices, 

  • BD-R/RE internal drive US$99.99–200;[17]
  • 4× single-layer BD-R disc (25 GB) US$2–5 in quantity;[19]
  • 4× double-layer BD-R disc (50 GB) US$12.99 each;[18]
  • 2× single-layer BD-RE disc (25 GB) US$5–12 each;[20]
  • 2× double-layer BD-RE disc (50 GB) US$20–40 each;[21]

Of course this can vary, but those are the prices i usually see...

That's what i would do, make games on 50GB discs, even when the game is 6 GB... Real pirates are gonna pirate no matter what, but there are a lot of lazy pirates that on the minor obstacle prefer to buy the game, so they won't burn a $60 game in a $20 disc, and they won't put 30-50GB per game in their drives... 


Except:

  • $20 is less than $60
  • $13 is less than $20, I don't know why you're only considering the RE discs
  • $2 is much less than $13 since from what I hear most games come in under 25GB
  • $5 is still much less than $60 if you're looking for read/writeable discs

You're right that 50GB absolutely do cost more which means they cost the publisher more too.  I have to wonder how much the discs cost them and what that cost is vs the expected amount of piracy.

Also, hard drive space is really cheap.  I can easily find a 1.5TB HDD for under $100 and that would be 30 50gig games right there.  Considering more space is just a delete key away with nothing really lost, I don't think they'd mind even stuffing 4-5 games at a time on a 300gig HDD.