The Anarchyz said:
twesterm said:
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...
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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.
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You're right, my bad, i got confused with the list, but my main point stands, of course a real pirate won't care about this, pirates are gonna pirate no matter what... But i know people who like piracy as long as it's close to free and relatively easy, otherwise they prefer to buy the games to avoid the trouble...
So there will be piracy, but i don't think it will be PSP big, hell, i don't think it will be PS2 big...
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100% agree it won't be as big as PSP and DS, but I would be willing to bet it will be bigger than the Wii and 360, especially if you can run games off your hard drive because then cost is eliminated. Once you get past a gig, I doubt file size matters for most people since you can start a download before you go to bed and then wake up to a finished download. And then there's ease-- zero modification to your console and will probably be as easy as just dropping an app into your PS3 through a USB stcik and you're done.
