PS3 To Use Blu-Ray Technology

Daetrin writes "GameSpot has reported an announcement by Sony that the PlayStation 3 will use Blu-Ray technology, a next-generation optical disc format which 'can hold 25GB on a single layer and 50GB on the dual-layer discs', as many people have been speculating. What Sony hasn't said for sure is whether the PS3 will be backwards compatible with DVD movies and PS2 games. However, they indicated that they will reveal more details about the PlayStation 3 at a premiere in Japan on March 31st next year. (And, if nothing else, there will certainly be plenty of rumors before then.)"

Comments

Who needs 50 GB in a game?!

[Zangief]

When 640Kb should be enough for everyone?

(Yeah I know I am mixing ram with disk size here, but it is a joke. Laugh)

Re:Who needs 50 GB in a game?!

[Anonymous Coward]

I would laugh, but you joke wasn't funny. I laughed the first 2 or 3 times I heard it, but the last 3 million times have been gradually less funny.

Re:Who needs 50 GB in a game?!

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot barefoot.

Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.

Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?

Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.

Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?

MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.

GC: A cup ' COLD tea.

EI: Without milk or sugar.

TG: OR tea!

MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.

EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."

EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.

GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.

EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpaulin, but it was a house to US.

GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!

TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.

MP: Cardboard box?

TG: Aye.

MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!

TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

ALL: Nope, nope..

Re:Who needs 50 GB in a game?!

[damien_kane]

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Re:Who needs 50 GB in a game?!

[Anonymous Coward]

and i bet you masturbated while you played leisure suit larry.... damn them bitches were hot right? hahahahahahaha

Hmm 50 gigs

[ParticleMan911]

Wow, those discs could hold thousands of DDR songs!

Re:Hmm 50 gigs

[stevesliva]

Somehow I doubt you mean Double Data Rate, which is too bad.

Bluray

[NitsujTPU]

Oh, you'll be able to play your old movies and games, they'll just be a bit bluray.

Sony, Sone, Soni

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

... a next-generation optical disc format which 'can hold 25GB on a single layer


What they didn't mention is that each disc is 3 meters in diameter.

I understand this is also going to replace RFID tags as a theft deterent.

Copy Protection

[Bandit0013]

Will be known as "Sting Ray".

great, now we have to wait longer for games :)

[Frag-A-Muffin]

Seriously, even if it's just 25GB or 50GB of textures and movies, doesn't this mean we'll be waiting even LONGER in between game cycles now. Sheesh, as if 2-4 years a game wasn't long enough! :)

This just announced- August 2005

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft's SP3 for Windows XP will be distributed only on blu-ray media. A Microsoft spokesman said "We look forward to serving up 25GB of patches to make Win XP the most secure operating system in the world." The spokesman added that SP4 would utilize the full potential of the media to deliver 50GB of patches to fix all the security holes introduced in SP3.

. . . hey, it could happen :)

Re:Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

Always hated Memory Sticks, though.
I call them "Memory Dicks."

...okay.

Your concept of a dick is pretty small, no?

Re:specs

[nuggetman]

i don't want to feel like i'm back on my c64 where you had to go make a sandwich while waiting for your game to load.


If you played a lot of games, you must be one fat fat man by this point

DDR? Try "Matrix Revolutions"!

[shigelojoe]

Forget DDR songs; if you had two you could watch the Trinity death scene in its entirety!

Technologically speaking, of course. The mental strain might be too great.

DMD - 1 terabyte CDs

[Anonymous Coward]

What I want to know is why all the companies waste time with these intermediary technologies when CD-like media that hold one terabyte is available?
See the article entitled: FMD / DMD. The Next Step in Storage
They are also see-through. YAY!
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