22nd August 2003, 10:05 PM
Oh now that's being realistic. Comparing floppies to DVDs. 
Of course disc space matters, but not as much as you think. Things like high-quality sound and FMV take up tons of space, not textures and models. It certainly helps, but WW would have looked the exact same if it had used 20GB optical discs. You can store more high-res textures in a larger capacity disc, but if the system has a low texture cache and RAM then it won't matter. That is the point I was trying to make.
Of course disc space matters, but not as much as you think. Things like high-quality sound and FMV take up tons of space, not textures and models. It certainly helps, but WW would have looked the exact same if it had used 20GB optical discs. You can store more high-res textures in a larger capacity disc, but if the system has a low texture cache and RAM then it won't matter. That is the point I was trying to make.