How many PS3 games use HD to get decent loading times ?

Yeah, I know, it's a troll. Sorry...

Microsoft really hurt the next gen consoles with the choice of staying with DVD and releasing an Xbox with no Hard drive. Multi platform games must support this and the PS3 will suffer as a result. So most games wont make use of the extra space of the BD unless the PS3 pulls out in a dominate position which is anybody;s guess if it will or not.

 Hurt? Are you kidding? The only multi-DVD game released so far this gen, that I know of, is Blue Dragon, and that's a cutscene- and speech-laden RPG. Not to mention the fact that including a built-in HD-DVD drive and standard hard drive would have made the 360 at least as expensive as the PS3 for its cheapest model.

Uncompressed 7.1 audio is nice, but for the 99.9% of us who don't have a speaker system that can handle it, regular Dolby 5.1 compressed audio works just fine - and it saves all of us money to boot.

Lost Odyssey uses 4 DVDs, Xenosaga II also came on two DVDs. They are out there.

@Cryoakira, Uncharted actually didn't use the HDD. But yeah, there were no load times.

@GreyAcumen:

Several games have used multiple DVDs, this gen and last gen. Both God of War games did, Blue Dragon does, Lost Oddysey, and there are probably several more.

Well Uncharted was about 24GB from what I read before its release, most exclusive games will take advantage cause its easier for the developer to leave things uncompressed I suppose.

More developers should start using this space. They have 50 gigabytes to work with, they shouldn't settle for 9 gigs. They could theoretically make a game over 5 times longer on PS3.

i was under the impression that when 360 games used more than 1 dvd, the extra dvds were installed on the harddrive, and there was only 1 disc that was used to play the game throughout. is that right?

cause if thats the case, then theres really no limit to how big games can get on the 360 and ps3, as they both have harddrives. therefore the extra space on bluray discs doesnt matter in the slightest. but i may be wrong.

 Is that why PS3 games have gotten a lot of flak for having some of the SHORTEST high production games so far this generation?  

Storage space is not what determines game length, development budget is.  Creating all that extra content for a 5x longer game will cause company to go bankrupt even faster than most of them are now.   

@darconi

I agree,

50gigs of data and a 7 hour game wtf? Its ridculus.