Is DVD-9 enough this generation?

[LordTheNightKnight]

CrazzyMan said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

CrazzyMan said:
well, i haven`t read anything, about having problems with DVD space on UT3 for x360. =)
so, probably game will easily fit into 8.5GB.
those 2 maps on Geow took only 100MB. =)) Just don`t know, will be UT3 levels be as "big" as those 2 maps. =)

however, i read complains about DVD space from GTA4 developers and Mass effects. :)

Rockstar wasn't complaining. They just said it was an issue they were working on. You want a complaint, look at Jaffe's response to gamespot's Calling All Cars review.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=164821

Interviwer:You've managed to shoe-horn the game on to one DVD. What are the consequences of that? Has anything had to be held back for downloadble content?

Ray Muzyka: We haven't revealed any plans yet for post-release content; download, episodic. But Mass Effect is a natural fit for that kind of thing.

For the longest time we were pretty sure we were going to have to fit the game content onto two DVDs, because there's just so much content in the game. Right now it looks like we're going to get it on one and it's been difficult because there's a lot of content. It's a very ambitious title.

The voice throughout the game as well; for the main character, all the party members; everybody talks.

http://www.ps3blog.net/2007/05/04/gtas-dan-houser-on-disk-storage/

Dan Houser, the creative VP at Rockstar Games and senior writer and producer of almost all of the GTA games, recently did an interview with UK’s OPM. All the regular news sites are citing him as saying that the 360’s DVD format and the possible lack of a hard drive as limitations for GTA 4 when compared to the PS3’s Blu-Ray format and guaranteed hard drive.

Actually, if you read the interview (link below), his actual comments are extremely mild and I wouldn’t count them for much. Most developers try to keep things professional and avoid picking sides and making inflammatory statements.

However, the same Dan Houser was extremely clear on the subject of disc storage during an interview in 2004. Remember that that was long before the specs for the PS3 or the 360 were even announced:

One area that I’m really involved in is creating the audio assets – I think we’ll have well over 400 speaking parts, which is insanity. The amount of studio time we’re having to get through and the amount of writing that’s involved, we’re more worried about getting it on the disc. That’s our initial challenge. We’re having to go to dual layer DVD because we’ve already filled up a full DVD.

He sums it up:

The danger is currently the storage medium (DVD), and one we thing we’re all praying for in the next round of hardware is that they don’t just go, ‘It’s DVD again’.

If he made such a comment now, it would seem like an intentionally partisan comment. But from 2004, that quote actually seems like a genuine technical issue.

After this, yeah, it`s not a big deal to change a disc or 3-4 discs. Blu-ray is just for a comfort. :)

 That's still not a complaint.