I think people forget about security space required on a video game DVD. I think I read that can range anywhere from .75-1.5 gigs per DVD. Time will tell if Blu-Ray is overkill this generation, but if history is any indicator, it IS NOT.
SNES generation to the Playstation generation (people thought CD's were too much)
Playstation generation to PS2 generation (people thought DVD's were too much)
PS2 generation to PS3 generation (people think Blu-Ray is too much).
It may be too much, but I really don't think there is as much evidence as some people think based on actual events in history that supports this theory.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
