disc are not essential period... and they a really poor way to transport data.... the only advantage it has over other solution is price.... I'd much rather have games on USB3 thumbstick than any form of disc past present or future.... or all DD but people are not ready apparently.... *sigh* *look up to the sky*

I wish games came on SD cards or anything similar to what DS/3DS/ Vita games come on. So much smaller and compact. 

yeap same here... went to my parents this week to take care of the pets while they are gone brought the XB with me and wanted to take a good bunch of games since I like to have options.... but not enough room in the suitcase.... well so I took out some cloths :P
but damn that'd be nice to have like a bunch of 32GB drives with games on it I could put like all my collection in my computer bag

I was looking for that, I thought they had recently upgraded it, but I could find a conformation.

So it will format the two 32GB for a total of 64GB?  Thanks for the tip.

Video quality is way better on many PS3 version of the games, just saying. Some games on X360 have horrible video compression to make it fit in the disc. Lost Odyssey, FFXIII, Dante's Inferno, Castlevania Lords of Shadow and others come to mind. I also remember very clearly From Software said they had to make some sacrifices on the Dark Souls version for 360.  

Uncharted games are not possible on multiple discs, same for God of War III and Ascension, same for Killzone 2, and Gran Turismo 5 or 6 let's not even bother, just not possible on DVD. MGS4 is not possible on DVD either. 

I remember when I beat Tales of Vesperia on 360. It surprised me all the missing voiceovers it had after a certain point in the game. Very wishy-washy, they had to cut down on the spoken dialog because it didn't fit on the disc.

No disc swapping is so 2006.

once again disc should have never existed in the first place..... but you can play any game on DVD... heck it could be on old school floppy disc and still work as long as you have an HDD to install it to.... using disc is plain stupid beside an economical advantage.... whether it is a CD a DVD a BR..... and playing from disc is even more stupid....

the DVD vs BR argument is plain uber stupid.... both solution are retarded in this century.... granted BR has the edge in capacity.... once again we'd be better off with all DD or other forms of flash memory than anything ever invented on a versatile disc.....

I played all those games on 360 you mentioned and I didn't think any of them had particularly bad video quality. Eitherway, that didn't ruin the experience. So it doesn't prove Bluray was essential.

From Software had to make sacrifices? Well it couldn't have been a storage issue. The 360 Demand download is under 4GB. The PS3 disc image seems to be about 5GB.

Tales of Vesperia is 5.5GB on the 360. There was still a lot of free space that could have went to voice overs. And lets not forget multiple discs is always an option.

Uncharted, Killzone, and MGS4 are all linear games would fit in a single or multiple DVDs (depending on the quality of FMVs). Forza 3/4 have the game on a disc and extra cars to install on another disc. The same could be done with GT.

Yeah, everything has a solution....downgrading the quality and the accessability. 

The quality difference wasn't big enough to justify a $600 price tag. Which is why Sony chased so many people to the 360. Did they expect sharper video and no disc swaps to win people over?

So DVDs downgrade accessibility? I'm not sure what that means...

Yeah, DVDs downgrade accessibity, it downgrades games in general. $600 was pricey at the time but still worh it, future proof machine all around, high quality build. It paid off to include Blu-ray, not only it saved the format from the doom Microsoft so vehemently tried to send it to (both of them, actually, even when they "supported" HD-DVD), it also allowed some of the best games of this generation, experiences that wouldn't be the same at all without it, even if 90% of them were 1st party titles.