Andre Yoskowitz
1 Aug 2007 16:36
After hearing comments from the developers of Project Gotham Racing 4, Sony cited the comments to justify its large investment in Blu-ray discs.
The developers said they were having trouble fitting the game data into a single DVD-9. "We took a lot of heat at launch for including Blu-ray in PS3. Now it looks like that investment is being justified," said SCEA spokesman Dave Karraker.
"Next generation games simply need more space on the disc to contain all that high definition content. Take a look at Lair, for example, already pushing 25GB of content, and that is a first-generation title. At 50GB storage capacity, Blu-ray gives the PS3 plenty of headroom for developers to fully realize their visions well into the future."
Bizarre Creations, the developer of PGR4, recently revealed that due to having trouble fitting all the texture data on a single DVD, players would not "see different times of day in each racing location." Clearly a few hundred MB of extra texture data is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in investments.
Source:
GI.biz