SvennoJ said:
First of all, how do games work on a 360 arcade? Making different partitions is actually slower then not using partitions. SSD drives are probably overkill, not worth the extra money. A 5400 rpm hdd should be at least 5 times faster compared to the fastest read speed of 12x dvd, yet it's hardly ever twice as fast after installing. I would like to see one next to a regular large capacity HDD but that's not going to happen. Personally I hope pre-rendered cut scenes make a come back. That's the time you pay attention to all the details, that's the time the game should look at its best. Rendered in engine it's usually when the game looks the worst. Why limit the artists by the game engine. Use it to make something spectacular instead of a few people talking in front of a static backdrop as happens so often now. And most importantly use it to load the game in the background. I find it really annoying to sit through boring under performing cut scenes that are interrupted to load the next part, and then still have to wait to load the next section of the game after it is finished. No wonder people rather skip them. What is preferable, buy a game, wait for it to install, and wait for it to load between cut scenes. Or the way Uncharted 2 handles it. Ofcourse it's all moot if developers want to force digital distribution on us. Why bother optimizing for blu-ray hdd combo if you rather have people download the full game. Maybe we will see another generation with DVD, install a heavily compressed dvd to the hdd or download it as your only options. That probably also means no pre-rendered cut scenes or low bitrate and no uncompressed sound to save space. I hope that doesn't happen. |
This would be the way if the games all have mandatory installs which they should have, no reason to make the media limited. Blu-ray can be standard though (for the raw data and cutscenes), but it doesn't have to be as every game should be played of the HDD. Which yeah means that there will probably be some digital distubtion service for all games, which is cool.