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Epic Games VP: 360's DVDs too small
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| Bill Cable 2005-09-20, 8:34 pm |
| Got this for the interview with Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic
Games, over on computerandvideogames.com...
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"Unreal Tournament was 6GB compressed. Next Generation games are going
to be 20GB plus, and how we're going to fit them on DVD9's I don't
know, they'll probably be a few of them. On the PS3, we're going to be
using the majority of the space on those Blu-ray disks."
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http://www.computerandvideogames.co...y.php?id=125925
This is coming from the VP of Epic... the company that's making Gears
of War & Unreal Tournament. Not some Japanese developer. Not for a
game full of CGI movies. No, this is a Western developer of FPS-type
games. And even they are complaining about the lack of capacity of the
disks the 360 will be using.
Are there any doubts left that Blu Ray was not only the wise decision,
but a completely necessary one?
--
Bill Cable - Steelers Fan & Star Wars Collector
http://CreatureCantina.com <----- funny!
cable@creaturecantina.com
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| Zackman 2005-09-21, 8:31 pm |
| Bill Cable wrote:
quote:
> Got this for the interview with Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic
> Games, over on computerandvideogames.com...
Well, I gotta hand it to you Bill. This would seem to be the first genuine
suggestion that < 9 GB isn't enough for at least one particular non-JRPG
developer's next-gen games. Score one for Darth Fanboi.
But what the hell is taking up all that freakin' room then? And is Epic
going to have to release PC games on multiple DVDs now too? Or maybe 25
CD-ROMs? I dunno, something doesn't add up right. That seems like too big a
jump in assets size from one gen to the next.
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> Are there any doubts left that Blu Ray was not only the wise decision,
> but a completely necessary one?
For Sony, yes, since they want/need Blu-ray to succeed. But surely you
didn't expect MS to adopt it? And with HD-DVD looking like it could die a
premature death, I daresay no high-def DVD drive is better than the Betamax
of the next generation.
-Z-
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