i have absolutely no problem at all, in fact i want ff13 to have as many disc as possible, look at it this way, we all will be paying 60 bucks for this game, for the ps3 you guys will get maybe a one or two disc, 360 will get 4-6 disc, for 60 bucks i prefer the 4-6 disc, to me that's value! plus each disc will have art work so its like buying a special edition. bottom line for me is i welcome the multiple discs with open arms. that is how i want it anyway. i'm paying 60 bucks and a 4-6 disc set will justify my 60 bucks.

I wouldn't care if the game needed 10 discs. Sure it would be less convenient, but not worse.

3 discs? Try 7 or 8. MGS4 used 50GB, and 75GB to 100GB discs are just around the corner. Eventually, BluRay disks will reach 150Gb to 200GB.

For other genres, especially shooters, which are linear experiences featuring the same dusky, dreary slab of battlefield red-brown-greys, the extra space doesn't matter. But for RPGs, which require huge, immersive and expansive game-worlds which the player has the freedom to explore as they wish, the lack of storage is a deal-killer. Reason: every new location requires you to backtrack to a particular disc. Instead of changing the disc every ten hours, it will be more like every ten minutes, especially later in the game.

I believe its like $1 per extra disc so figure if FFXIII was five discs Square would be paying M$ $4 extra to use the extra space granted by using the extra discs.

Have to disagree. Bethesda manages to do it, and their games are way less linear than the usual JRPG. Tales of Vesperia is also big and colorful, yet only takes up one disc. I think the reason these Final Fantasy type games require so much space is down to their FMW sequences and a lack of compression.

have you played ff7 or lost oddysey, i dont remember a time when i had to back track to disc 2 or disc 3 when i was on disc 4 LOLs, usually you just keep playing foward and theres really no use in going back to disc 1 or disc 2 when on disc 4, when a story starts out, all the missions and storyline will happen in disc 1, what ever you need to collect will be on that disc, items and other stuff will be passed to disc two, you will have same enviroments same places to explore but new storyline and objective will on disc 2.

wow for 60 bucks i get 20 disc, awesome! LOL

 Haha, thats exactly what I was thinking :P

Wow. Nice.  So thats what, 4 or 5 Bluray disks on PS3 then?

That is what ID stated some time ago but MS already said this is wrong. They charge per game not per disc.

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