Because its not in spec. Textures are just xxx by xxx bitmaps. Very easy to compress those.

Not in the spec? Still sounds strange. Compression alogritms are actually pretty complex and my PC sports a DX9 capable graphics card, but also sports a faster CPU for decoding than the Xenon is capable of. I see no reason why I would need a better GPU for my CPU to perform more efficient decoding.

@ Reasonable

The realtime ingame cutscenes in MGS4 also take up a lot of space. PS3 exclusives make excellent use of Blu-Ray disc while also taking advantage of maximum compression (it makes sense as the Cell can decode faster than the extra time it takes to load from disc).

I think PS3 exclusives are and will take more and more advantage of realtime generated cutscenes, not because this could save space, but because you get a more seamless experience (same assets, better transitions).

God of War 3:

"Everything you see is 100% in-game. All camera features, including motion blur, run real-time in the cinematics and in-game."

"For this game we decided to try and blend in the cinematic sequences with the in-game sequences, so all models and assets are used for cinematics and for in-game.

“The Kratos that you will control will be the same you see in extreme close ups, no smoke and mirrors, no model switching. There is no CG cutscenes like the ones in previous GOW games. What you see in cinematics is what you get in-game, no difference. We didn’t want to have any jarring changes in detail between gameplay and story.”"

This game will take up a lot of Blu-Ray space.

Being that we’re (almost) 5 years into the generation, and DVD has been more than adequate for the vast majority of games, I think this mostly validates Microsoft’s choice of DVD as a media format; and indicates that a larger format (most likely a Blu-Ray based format) will be necessary for the next generation.

Not in the spec? Still sounds strange. Compression alogritms are actually pretty complex and my PC sports a DX9 capable graphics card, but also sports a faster CPU for decoding than the Xenon is capable of. I see no reason why I would need a better GPU for my CPU to perform more efficient decoding.

Well does this give a hint on M$ including Blue-Ray for their next console? Yeah DVD has been doing the work until 360 version of FFXIII highlighted some issues related to the HD content downgrade.

Your mom got you a gift for Valentine's day??

Well does this give a hint on M$ including Blue-Ray for their next console? Yeah DVD has been doing the work until 360 version of FFXIII highlighted some issues related to the HD content downgrade.

Being that we should probably expect 2 to 4 times as much texture and geometry data on high-end next generation games as we see on current HD console games, I don’t think there ever was much doubt that we would see an end to DVD as the primary media format for any next generation console. While I think this might mean all manufacturers will use Blu-Ray or a derivative format, it is entirely possible that another format could be chosen; and one possibility is a memory based format being that you could (probably) deliver a game on a 4GB/8GB flash-card today and flash memory capacity follows Moore’s law (meaning that by the time the consoles launch an 8GB/16GB card would be possible, and by the end of the generation 64GB/128GB cards would probably be available)