400 GB blu-ray disks.........maybe for games?

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Kyros on 07 July 2008

If you guys are amazed at BD disc sizes, you should read up on the next gen of optical media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc[/quote]

A player costing initially 15000$. A 16layer BluRay disc wouldn't be anything special unless actual player could read them with a firmware update. In this case it would be pretty amazing. Imagine all Stargate seasons on one disc.

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Rainbird on 07 July 2008

XGamer0611 said:
400 GB? This is insane they are wasting space with the Blu-Ray disks now. I think 400 GB is overkill. I agree with an earlier poster this will never be used in the PS3. The fact that the PS3 needs installs for 25/50 GB disks, imagine what the size of an install would be for a 400 GB disk?

Crazy!

Off the top of my head, 5GB?

Well, hopefully this would mean that even sucky developers could put their their game on one disc enough times to avoid an install. Nah, probably not.

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SlorgNet on 07 July 2008

This is why Sony designed their entire machine around BluRay. As a hardware manufacturer, they knew 25GB was fine for the games of 2006, but 250GB would be needed for the games of 2010.

MGS4 filled up 50GB pretty quickly, which means epic role-playing games like FF13 and FF14 will probably somewhere around 100GB or 150GB. I imagine the FF series will avoid MGS4-style intermission installs, because real-time battle systems don't have the extreme visual processing requirements of shooters, so they'll just stream data off the disc.

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Dgc1808 on 07 July 2008

With a 100GB disc, I could see FF13 being huge, very long game, huge worlds, Awesome audio to macth those amazing visualls we've seen already.

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XGamer0611 on 07 July 2008

No offense to anyone here but has everybody lost their minds here? Or is everyone a Sony fanboy? The Blu-Ray drive on the PS3 is only 2x. That is the reason installs are needed because the drive can't buffer the data fast enough. If Blu-Ray goes to 400 GB the install would need to be huge in order to buffer the data. The worst part is since the drives are internally set, speeds can't be changed via firmware.

@ Rainbird

Which means the installs would be way more then 5 GB.

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321tttrini4everz on 07 July 2008

dam...i thought 250gb was the most a blu-ray disk can hold (already made one already)

now 400gb is possible

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Dgc1808 on 07 July 2008

Am also guessing that PS4 will be sporting atleast a 8x Bluray Drive. The 2x drive in the ps3 is good but we still have HDD installs

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largedarryl on 07 July 2008

Kyros said:

When did I mention anything about cost? I was simply stating the trend of future optical media. Since most of the posters above my thread are going OMG, 400GB that's amazing BD FTW.

There is also mention in that article that a firmware update may not be enough, since older BD players may need a new reader mechanism (new BD player needed and not available in current PS3 models).