Microsoft has some pretty good compression technology so I doubt this will be something anyone really cares about... I hope this is the last generation where we ever see this anyway

I play games for gameplay not movies. Thank God I played Square games before they became soulless CGI infused monsters.

1 hour of CGI out of 60 hours of gameplay, this is a square game. We are not talking about Xenosaga here :P.

Xenosaga it is definitely not. It's more along the lines of Spirits Within. *shudder*

Ok you were talking of the movie not the game itself, I see. Advent Children was simply awesome tho. And actually spirits within, if you understand the story, is not that bad either.

I meant the games. Square or Squeenix hasn't made a Final Fantasy game worthy the name since 9. VII,VIII,X,X2,XI,XII and more recently XIII are all style and no substance at all. It's a shame that diehard fans nowadays are more enthralled about CG sequences than what is most important...the GAMEPLAY.

It's actually more than that because 360 discs are locked at 6.8gb. The rest of the data on disc isn't available for the game.

who cares as long as quality is there. In-grame cinematics are so well rendered with this gen consoles that you won't make much difference comapred to CGI graphics.

This is a necessity, I'm sure. 3 DVDs probably cost more to replicate than 1 BD, and the 6 (or more, thanks to much of the game data being replicated on every disc) DVDs it would take to have everything would probably push the 360 version too far down the profit/unit bar to make it truly worthwhile.

I'm sure S-E has done its best, with what they have. Honestly, who notices the difference between mega-compressed MPEGs and mildly compressed ones anyway?

i feel like your last sentence is contradicting the first one.  Even gamers wouldn't be happy if they had 6 disks instead of 3 and you couldn't even really tell the difference.