| shams said: Taking into account faster CPUs and more on-board RAM (better compression tech available for use), downloadable content, availability of hard disks (etc) - I think DVD-9 is EASILY enough space. It would be a very rare game that REQUIRES more than 10Gig of COMPRESSED space - and those can be simply delivered on multiple discs. BluRay IMO is complete and utter overkill. It lends itself to lazy development practices more than anything else (wasting space). And its ironic that a BluRay drive (PS3) is slower than the DVD-9 drive in the 360. If they should have improved anything, it should be an ungraded DVD-9 drive with faster seek/access times, and faster read rates. That would have been much more useful!
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CPUs and RAM do not make up for texture sizes and 1080p videos. If it did, why are sizes of everything increasing? That logic just makes no sense.
Not all 360's have hard drives, developers can not depend on them.
People said the same crap about DVDs back in 2000. The only difference this time is people are holding on to hope that the inferior hd-dvd format will succeed. It is unfortunate that the dual-format players may succeed. Either way, blu-ray is making money so it's not going away.
