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Sony Adopts Blu-ray Disc PlayStation 3
fenimor writes "Sony announced today that it had begun preparations to adopt Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) format as a medium for the next generation PlayStation. Single side double layer Blu-Ray discs have a huge memory size of 54 GB, being an ideal medium to distribute next generation entertainment content from movies and music to computer applications. Next month Sony plans to announce a 200GB 8-layer version of BD-ROM according to MacWorld."
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this way Sony can push the PS3 effectively. the question is will they have enough Blue ray HD movies available by the time the PS3 is released.
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You all know it's coming, but seriously folks, before the Dreamcast and original Playstation came out, what console's games didn't come out on a proprietary format?
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Why not? It will probably do nothing to stop professional pirates, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt.
Personally, I see this as the action that will establish BD-ROM as the leader of the next-gen disc formats.
I don't know many people who will rush-out to buy a new DVD player to play HD movies, but EVERYONE is going to buy a PS3.
With that installed base, it will be fairly easy to translate into the market for movies being sold in that format.
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What Ken Kutaragi appears to have said was that the PS3 will have 54GB of storage Capacity in addition to playing DVDs and CDs. Since Bluray can hold 25/50GB one assumes he is alluding to the inclusion of an onboard HDD or flash memory device.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/549/549950p1.html
Like people keep suggesting. More like late 06 early 07.
Interesting. I think I'm starting to see Sony's strategy. They're rolling out a console that can probably play blu-ray DVD movies. They recently bought MGM, giving Sony the rights to rerelease all of MGM's movies on DVD. With PS3 to put players into the market, and with MGM movies to release, it sounds like sony has put a lot of thought into making their blu-ray standard a success.
that's why they have these things call tape...
You actually back up your entire harddrive on 50 CDs/DVDS? Sorry, but that's just anal.
A game that I worked on - Everquest: Champions of Norrath - used the entire dual-layer DVD. In fact, if we'd had more, we could have used it. In fact, we ended up having to remove some of the data for the international version because the voice files were too big to fit. I personally wrote a compression algorithm to compress our textures down to about half their previous size (and yes, they were compressed before also.)
I think one level had around 10gb of textures uncompressed, brought down to under half a gig after heavy processing.
That said, if we'd had access to a really fast processor and GPU, none of that would have been necessary. So I don't know what people can use 50gb for, given that the system is extremely fast.
But maybe it's not as fast as I think it is.
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some of the graphic and audio hurdles you see in modern games aren't just 'cause the systems aren't fast enough to handle them. Repeated models, redundant textures, low res textures, dialog without audio... all of these things can be aleviated by having a bigger storage medium. Of course, expect development times to increase because of it ...
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That is EXACTLY the same argument I have been hearing for years and it is ALWAYS invalid. People said that cds would be uncopiable because people would not have the hard disk space, cd recorders are amazingly expensive, so is media, and it takes about a week on an unreliable connection to download a cd. Well, guess what, things moved on. Then came dvds. Exact same arguments. Now it's the same with a blue-ray or whatever it's called. With a 10Mbit connection, something entirely possible during the next 3-4 years, the average consumer will be able to download 54 Gb in more or less 24 hours. Good enough for you?
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So how long will the new FF summonings be, 10 minutes each? 30 minute cut scenes? I shudder at the thought.
Personally I'd rather they spend the time creating more "world" to explore rather than rendering hours and hours FMVs...
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I think this may be why blue ray wins the format war. If PS3 uses it, and the average PS2 owner stay s true to their old behaviour, it won't be long before they are modding and burning and complaining about fair use. Before you know it, blueray dvdrw will be fly off the shelf, driving the price down, and making fence sitters say "hmmm do I get nearly equivilent option 1, or cheaper option 2?" Cheap wins (re: beta vs vhs) and boom blueray is your standard of choice. All thanks to the power of software piracy!
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Sony's like the Brain from Pinky and the Brain:
"What are we going to do tonight Sony?"
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the home electronics business with a proprietary media format!"
Personally, I like *understanding* the voice acting more than I like the Japanese voice acting. If I can't understand what they're saying, there's really no point in them saying it; give me BETTER VOICE ACTORS IN ENGLISH, not possibly better voice actors who I can't make a decent judgement on because I have no idea whether they're talking about their dead beloved or breakfast.
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What you need to realize is that PS3 might support HDTV resolutions. In that case all the the out of game pre-rendered movies will be a lot larger. And for that matter maybe even normal textures.