Because the game has no load times apart from city to field.

Why this?

@hauxing really, that's pretty cool? Does it do a preloaded to the hard drive at the very beginning?

well blu-ray is storage monster pionner has managed to create a 500GB blu-ray

@Feylic, I assume you are reffering to the duplication of data on bluray and not the compressed vs uncompressed video and sound?

The game has no install either. Kind of like Uncharted 2.

so it's running straight from the DVD or Bluray right?

If you had said anything different, I would have pooped myself.

Yes - its called compression.

Take Flowerworks for example: the WiiWare version is superior to the PC version. Yet the PC version is more than double the size... how can this be?

This is part of the problem with BluRay IMO... it allows developers to get sloppy. Smaller games are always better... but when we put the PC version of Flowerworks out - we had no size restrictions - who cares how big it is?

But for the Wii version we actually cared... so enter compression. Even with the lossy compression formats, if done properly - there is no noticable difference between the two. As for lossless... it speak for itself.

This just shows what a massive portion of FFXIII must be movies or CG. I can't wait until the PS3/360 versions are out, and people start *trying* to notice the differences... :P

Yes.