FF13 in it's native state will not be 40 - 60 gb. It will be 30 gb max. :)

No No...It reads that way but that's not what he meant

If the game was those 40-60GB it would be hell for many ps3 owners as well. I mean don't you guys take into consideration that just maybe the PS3 will have an mandatory install? Of course this may have been already said that it won't happen (i wouldn't know since i don't follow the subject very much) but if it does then it won't be the wii owners that will have to use the ol refrigerator method of dealing with FF13.

Now that's one thing, the second being my belief that the game will in no way be over 40GB. SE will be able to compress the cgi vids with no loss in quality by quite a bit, i would assume, and that would also go for the audio.

One thing that startled me was that people kept using Itadaki as reference as to how much space FF13 will use. 1GB for one minute of cgi? that's damn crazy since if FF13 will have those 45 minutes (45 GB of space taken, thank you very much) of graphical splendor then where will SE put in their game data, audio files and others on that blu ray disc? Even more so, if there's only half an hour of movies than there still won't be enough space for uncompressed 7.1 audio that some ps3 fans preach about.

Oh and one thing, downloading your games onto the xbox drive doesn't help all that much except for a few games. For me i've only seen improvements in Mass Effect and Fallout 3.

You're not missing the joke, it's just that 'almost' everyone in this topic is indeed severely misinformed

mgs4 has hours of cutscenes and came close to filling up the disc yet the install was smaller than re5 by almost 2 gigs.

ot: the game wont be 60gb since br only holds 50gb.

ur solution is only a solution if every 360 owner wanting to own this game buys a 40gb+ hdd. the dvd can hold the game and the cutscenes can be stord onto the hdd, but who in their right minds will fill up an entire hdd for one game?

the disc space issue will be solved via multiple discs. there is no other option with these chunky games.

just in case anyone mentiones the new dvd technology where they can put 1000x more data on a disc, it uses a certain material and requires a special laser to read it. the 360 has neither and the tech is a longway from going into production.

installs to compensate the disc capacity???
Where did you ever read that?
The disc instal is to reduce noise and load times, nothing more.

Disc swap has been there since the PS1 (PCs had installs), I doubt it'll be a problem to anyone...

And I'm gonna laugh hard when the game's is 60GB+ uncompressed and SE decides to put it on 2 BR with install while compressed it'll hold on 4 360DVDs without installs =)

Get a PS3... problam solved!

I don't think you understand - it IS! If only the Atari 2600 had this feature, ET could have reached its full potential.

The game will just barely fit on a DVD-9. SE will pretty much throw up their hands and say "Screw cutscenes" and have a game you can actually play without interuption from start to finish.