yes because walking in the snow for miles and putting a different disc in a system is the same thing. 

If it is lazyness or just difficult then yes, after all it is difficult to code for the PS3 but they still do it. I believe that the FFXIII is actually one of the examples of the developer preparing the disc to minimise disc swapping so in this case the developer appears to have made the effort.  I am not sure what the problem was with Lost Planet 2 but like others have pointed out for the few games that need the additional assets another disc resolves the problem. Yes it may take some more thought in preparing the discs as is seen with ME2 and FFXIII but ultimately it benefits the developer and the punter. It does not mean that we must have oodles of disc space or another medium especially if the game is going to be multi platform.

When has DVD been able to provide HD content? well, at least partially, in terms of games. But DVD hasn't , can't and won't ever (because it's just technically impossible) provide a full HD package (video and audio). You may have a partial "HD" game for the 360, in terms of game-engine, but videos (cgi movies) and audio (DVD audio is not HD audio) are not HD.

So then we have two HD consoles but no HD games. Actually I am wrong as this doesn't matter to the high capacity Blu-Ray PS3.

At a time when so many argue over which games looks best and graphics being an important ingredient in a games overall review score I doubt this will happen. This industry is very much about prestige as much as it is about money (as far as Sony and MS are concerned anyway).

Both sides love to talk up the specs and what their console is capable of.

As for DVD storage, of course it is no big deal for x360 owners to swap discs. You don't have a choice so you have to live it, that's life. Nothing wrong with that.

The problem with 2 or 3/4 DVDs - as someone pointed - lies with the production cost.

A 3 or 4 DVD set game has gotta hurt the publishers, it's not like they can sell the game for 3 or 4 times the standard cost.

Removing HD content from x360 games can save a lot of storage and hence production cost but it is a massive price to pay when it is a main selling point for so many gamers and gives developers a chance to push the console to it's limits.

Crysis looks pretty good for a DVD game, the only constraint is capacity.

Eh, computer games are different because they can use massive compression to make the disk and then proceed to unpack it in an install onto the host computer, they don't Have to stream the content off the disk or worry about if the person is going to have a hard disk at all.

Well this leaves us to wonder what's gonna happen when Crysis 2 is out...

Things would've been easier if Microsoft  hadn't pulled plug on HD DVD drive. Well it was Toshiba's call and format war ended.

^^ yea MS was a douche when they didnt use HD-DVD. It ran on a modified red laser so the costs wouldnt have been that huge- I guess they were so paranoid about the ps3 that they had to launch the 360 ASAP.

Some1 mentioned that 3-4 discs costs the devs a lot more.. yes and no.. the actual costs of the discs themselves are pretty moot- discs cost a few cents to produce. Main cost rise would be shipping/handling/packaging.

I love how many people in here think that simply upping the resolution of a title is what makes ps3/360 development so expensive.

I hate how HD is just a buzzword now, and so many people toss it around without having any idea what it means. HD gaming, etc.

Outside of FMVs, the fact that games are rendered in 720p or higher resolution has little bearing on their size. I could run 10 year old PC games in such resolutions if I wanted to. They don't suddenly become larger as a result.

What makes up the bulk of the cost is the time spent designing larger environments, models with much higher polygon counts in the past, and creating higher resolution art assets to cover these models (note: texture resolution has no bearing on rendering resolution!). There's simply more of everything, provided they actually try to push the limits of a system. However, you can still easily have an HD game that costs less than the average ps2 game. Flow would be one such game. It renders in 1080p, and thus is as HD as you can get, but its design is incredibly simple.