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Certain Xbox 360 Titles May Fill 4 DVDs

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-a-lot-of-shiny dept.

MBCook writes "A Joystiq post says that certain 'highly anticipated' Xbox 360 titles will fill four discs-worth of content. From the post: 'From the high-res textures fit for an HDTV to the higher polygon counts befitting a next-gen console, the space available on standard DVDs is suddenly in increasingly short supply. [...] According to Game Informer, nearly every developer they talked to at X05 expressed difficulties fitting their launch titles onto a single disc. One unnamed yet highly anticipated game in particular is said to currently occupy a full four 9Gb DVDs.'" Relatedly, Microsoft has announced that mainland Asia should expect a March 2006 launch date for the 360 console.

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  1. Pshaw by brilinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    I play no games which do not fit on a 5.25" floppy.

    1. Re:Pshaw by rsilvergun · · Score: 2, Funny

      My standing rule is to play no game unless it's smaller then it's own 320x240 jpeg screenshot, but that's just me.

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  2. Well.... by sparkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they used 9GB discs instead of 9Gb discs, they'd be able to cram those 4, and 4 more onto a disc.