27th March 2006, 4:28 AM
When you're dealing with 8 gig games, having 50 of them on a HDD really isn't all that Startrekian. In 5 years i've accumulated about 50 for GC and they could easily fit on my 80 gig HDD with enough room for the OS and all my programs and most of my porn, so again... there is no storage issue, you just get a larger HDD to hold all your games, or multiple HDD's. It would be up to the consumer as to how many games they want to store.
With blu-Ray we'll be at 25 gig games, but honestly I have yet to see a game that is over 10 gigs. A single layer DVD is 4 to 5 gigs, a duel layer is 7 to 8; Both Revolution and Xbox360 (and PS2) use this format, which means the largest game is EIGHT GIGS, plenty of room to store atleast a few games even on the premium's included HDD though you can upgrade that to whatever you want, with any third party HDD on the market. There are no multiple DVD games that i'm aware of (unless it's a bonus disk) which would mean that no one has gone beyond the 8 gig mark for home consoles (and PCC as well i'm assuming), and i'm willing to bet that there are probably very few games that even reach 8 gigs.
blue ray is 25 gigs single layer, around 50 for duel, and its rumored that the PS3 will allow for double sided reading, meaning a total of 100 gigs per disk. A side from having a shit ton of movies in your game, there really is no point. MS proved that large scale HD games can be done on 8 gigs... so I see no reason for this generation to go beyond 8 gigs. If i'm not mistaken, i believe even oblivion is a single disk game.
5 years from now, i'm very curious as to how the whole blue ray and HDDVD thing turns out, and if companies will want to use such a format, if it will be even needed or used. So far, i haven't seen a single developer complain about DVD storage size. of course with sony, their main drive is for blue ray movies, but developers will have TWENTY FIVE GIGS to fill for every game..... cut scene, after cut scene, after cut scene, blah. Or just leave it empty, and since they'll be porting to Revolution or 360, they'lll probably be around 8 gigs as well. So again.... storage....... not an issue.................. *slowly unsheathes a broadsword*
With blu-Ray we'll be at 25 gig games, but honestly I have yet to see a game that is over 10 gigs. A single layer DVD is 4 to 5 gigs, a duel layer is 7 to 8; Both Revolution and Xbox360 (and PS2) use this format, which means the largest game is EIGHT GIGS, plenty of room to store atleast a few games even on the premium's included HDD though you can upgrade that to whatever you want, with any third party HDD on the market. There are no multiple DVD games that i'm aware of (unless it's a bonus disk) which would mean that no one has gone beyond the 8 gig mark for home consoles (and PCC as well i'm assuming), and i'm willing to bet that there are probably very few games that even reach 8 gigs.
blue ray is 25 gigs single layer, around 50 for duel, and its rumored that the PS3 will allow for double sided reading, meaning a total of 100 gigs per disk. A side from having a shit ton of movies in your game, there really is no point. MS proved that large scale HD games can be done on 8 gigs... so I see no reason for this generation to go beyond 8 gigs. If i'm not mistaken, i believe even oblivion is a single disk game.
5 years from now, i'm very curious as to how the whole blue ray and HDDVD thing turns out, and if companies will want to use such a format, if it will be even needed or used. So far, i haven't seen a single developer complain about DVD storage size. of course with sony, their main drive is for blue ray movies, but developers will have TWENTY FIVE GIGS to fill for every game..... cut scene, after cut scene, after cut scene, blah. Or just leave it empty, and since they'll be porting to Revolution or 360, they'lll probably be around 8 gigs as well. So again.... storage....... not an issue.................. *slowly unsheathes a broadsword*