| ViktorBKK said: Some people are very confused. Optical storage DOES NOT improve your game or graphics in any way whatsoever. It is simply a means to deliver the data. A huge game could come in 5 DVDs or in 1 blu-ray or be downloaded or whatever. The way the data is delivered is irrelevant to the game's quality. Also, running games directly from optical storage, wether its blu-ray or dvd, is pathetic. Compare to HDD/SSD, optical drives are loud, slow and more prone to fail eventually. All games should be installed on the hard drive, in their entirety, before play. Optical drive should be inactive during gameplay. X360 offered such a feature on a system level, PS3 didn't. Blu-ray was awesome for movie playback, and for convenience. It didn't improve the games in any way. |
Disk space is important for how you partition data, and can indirectly affect graphics. If say you design a game which requires a lot of data to be accessed at once (say like MGS IV), and say you always need access to 10GB or more, then the game won't work on a DVD since it can't be partitioned into small enough bits for that to work.
A better example would be using a CD and DVD for the moment, I'm sure the Unreal 3 engine is larger then 700MB, so it's impossible to run Gears of War off a CD because you can't even fit the engine on it.
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