I never said 400Gb Blu-ray for PS3 games. Maybe PS4 or PS5.

But it's quite possible for future gens. The way technology is improving graphics, Audio, CPU & GPU power every 5-6 years we need storage capacity too store all the increased data that the games and other apps will need.

"“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640 kB ought to be enough for anybody"

(Bill Gates, Microsoft, 1981)

“There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.”

(Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, in 1977)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)

Insights with regard to computing potential changed dramatically with the introduction of multi-tasking multimedia systems like the Amiga in 1985.

Other remarkably insighful tech quotes:

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

(Western Union internal memo, 1876)

“Radio has no future.” (Lord Kelvin, 1897)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)

“Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.” (The Boston Post in 1865)

It was a reposne to the OP but alright. Yes, everythign else has been going up but 400 gigs is ridiculous. That's almost as much as my HDD. As I said, currently the most graphical game out there is Crysis and that covers a very small fraction of those 400. Maybe some day in a few decades yes, 400 gigs would be useful. But not any time soon.

Well I could'nt remember the exact quote word for word. Was only using the quote to get my point across.

640k to 4Gb is a huge jump.

@ vlad321

so 4-5 years of development for FFXIII on 50gb


hello FFXIV in year 2120 on 400gb

you really think MS is still going to use dvd9 next gen? i highly doubt it.... and N will probably go back to carts, haha.

OT: These will NOT be used for games any time soon, (read 10 yrs) but whatever idiot up there said there's no real world use is just being stoopid. you can back up your entire damn server and then some onto a single disc??? why in the hell would i want something like that?

 Depends really on the game genre. Open world would be a good example where masses of data could easily used if available.

It doesn't always work like this, taking a photograph in 1 megapixel quality takes very little space, taking a photograph which for instance takes 16 MB of storage space normally provides much higher quality, suitable for zooming in and such. Both take a similar amount of time to take a picture.

Concept art is usually of way better quality than the actually used art, they are often significantly downgraded to meet platform specs and game engine design. For recording lossless 7.1 audio you mostly need the right equipment and technology.

It really doesn't depend on the game. You can't have graphics worth 400 gigs. Maybe contents in terms of massive scale, but how long and how much money do you have to spend to make that currently? The only thing it's useful for currently tha I can think of is major data back-up storage.