| DarkD said: The difference between a Blue Ray and an HD DVD is pretty invisible I'll give you that but the size I would have to disagree with you on. Would you be surprised to realize that most games for the PC go over and above that 9 gb limit of the regular DVD's? So the idea that a larger disc format isn't needed isn't necesarilly true. I don't believe that Blue Ray is necesary with it's larger price tag attached but I would like it if there was a larger disc format available in this generation. Pretty much every game for the 360 is at the current limit. Do you think that they wouldn't have gone at the very least just a little bit bigger if they had the chance |
I wouldnt mind larger capacity discs at all however... given what I know about writable dvd quality I would be very hesitent using ones with even larger capacity. You know those little hair line scratches you get every now and then, well on these new discs they can destroy tons of data since data is spaced so much more closely together. Not to mention how vulnerable the media is to just moderate temperature changes especially once the coating becomes brittle.
I simply dont trust the media very much and since hard drives are so big and internet is relatively fast, what do we still need DVDr's for? I mean... i have over maybe 300 fully writen dvdr's (all containing recorded movies and tv shows) but havent written anything to a dvdr in almost 3 years now since I find the practice completely worthless with online dvd rentals being as cheap as they are. I dont need them for anything anymore and I cant think of any realistic use for them aside from movies and tv shows if you have a dvr type setup like I do. I would love to use them for data storage but that would be plain stupid to do given their reliability.
High capacity mobile media is a great thing but this media format is definitly not the answer to all the PC users dreams. The real answer is solid state storage like flash memory sticks and we already have little small USB sticks that can hold 8 gigs. They are much more durable and can last virtually forever unlike fluid coated discs.
As far as game capacity goes... there is no reason whatsoever for any game to take up 9gigs. Oblivion (a game that I didnt like very much), which I think is the epitome of modern gaming from a technical standpoint in terms of performance, quality, and programming only uses about 4gigs.... just 4 and that game took almost 4 years to develop. With exception to MMO's what game can even come close to Oblivion in size and quality? Any game that uses more than maybe 5or6 gigs is simply poorly made. Not compressed properly or purposely inflated (uncompressed) for egoistic bragging rights a la "look at our game, its 5 times larger than so and so" when it really isnt. Hell the biggest game i have ever seen is probably Everquest and that is almost 10 years old and has what... like 12 expansions and even with its unimaginably huge world it barely takes up 12 gigs of space. EQ2 which is as high as high quality graphics can be today barely eats 8 gigs and that also features a much bigger ingame world than any console game I can think of.
