21st March 2006, 6:46 PM
Why even go with these new formats for our games? Is it even really a requirement yet?
PC games are still getting CD releases and they have ultra high resolutions already. Sure they NEED to upgrade to DVD and soon, but my point is very rarely do we actually have a need for 2 DVDs, and I don't think that's that big a problem. Updating to a new format is only really needed when we start seeing those 7 DVD games come out. If it is this expensive, they may have made their move a generation too soon. I'd say wait until we start needing to store "gigaquads" of info.
PC games are still getting CD releases and they have ultra high resolutions already. Sure they NEED to upgrade to DVD and soon, but my point is very rarely do we actually have a need for 2 DVDs, and I don't think that's that big a problem. Updating to a new format is only really needed when we start seeing those 7 DVD games come out. If it is this expensive, they may have made their move a generation too soon. I'd say wait until we start needing to store "gigaquads" of info.
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