So, Xbox One has a Blu-ray drive

[Munkeh111]

walsufnir said:

Munkeh111 said:

walsufnir said:
Of course $ony doesn't own bluray - the people who thought that are just... well, we know what and who they are.
To me the drive is useless for movies by now, because I already have a bdp but it's definitely good for future games. This gen it was close with dvd, nextgen will require more capacity.

It's useless for games since every game requires a full install and reportedly the discs aren't needed at all. I suppose it makes things slightly easier to install, but playing movies is the only thing that it is actually needed for

I said it's only useful because of the size, not the game itself. Of course it's only a medium to bring the content to the disk but it's also good for games as they can use the full 50 gig in size to create the games.

I just don't see why games would boom to 50GB in size. I play quite a lot of PC games and most aren't bigger than 10GB and those that are, aren't anywhere near to 50GB. Pretty much all could be done on 2 DVDs. All the reports of 50GB PS3 games were beause of lazy compression and because they put the content in multiple places on the disc to improve load times (I think, not sure how accurate this is), but the latter won't be a problem as they have quicker drives now

I suppose the one thing is that I THINK that you can play as it installs, so that might just be easier

I guess it doesn't matter, it won't be a huge cost and could come in handy towards the end of the generation.