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VGKing on 03 September 2011
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slowmo said:
VGKing said:
I think they want to dumb it down and keep it as pedestrian as possible so that if you want to do anything for Blu-ray or you have extra content above 9 gigs or you want to do anything of that nature, you’d better sure as heck remember that Microsoft can't handle

You can't argue that this is true. There's a ton of multiplatform games that could benefit from Blu-Ray technology. One that comes to mind is GTA4. The Xbox 360 is really holding back the PS3 and limiting that 3rd party games that come to it.


By the same token there have been games released that could have played to the 360's extra GPU horsepower more but were wound back due to issues getting equivalent performance from the PS3.  Both consoles have different strengths that only a exclusive game can fully utilize.  I would argue for the first 2 years on the market the PS3 was massively holding the 360 multiplats back as huge amounts of dev time were put into dragging them to near equivalent performance, it happens.

Size really isn't an issue, devs are just lazy and have got out of the habit of using smart compression techniques and don't want to have to pay to learn to use them, just like the devs who whinged the PS3 was too hard to develop for.  New process cost money so it's easier to whine to get stuff changed.  I would question where all this masses of content we're missing out of by being limited to DVD is coming form exactly as it seems developers are going out of business now given the huge budgets they're burning for game a third of the size they could be.  Extra content means more development time, more testing time and ultimately all this for ZERO extra revenue or profit.  I'll give you a clue, it's mind washing bullshit PR.  I can count on one hand the number of games that really needed that extra capacity and that was purely for cutscenes which I don't like anyway as they detract when switching to and from game engine and the quality difference.


This isn't just about CPU/GPU. Devs can easily make the most out of the Xbox 360s hardware. This is mostly about Blu-Ray vs DVD.

If the Xbox 360 had a Blu-Ray player we wouldn't have devs releasing incomplete games and then charging for the rest of the game as DLC.