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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. Read the god-damned article before posting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Article: -1 flamebait.
    Article poster: -1 drooling moron.
    Slashdot: -1 Has Jumped The Shark.

    From the god-damned Joystiq article:

    "[UPDATE: or perhaps not, duuur]"

    The link there goes to this comment:

    "How can ES: Oblivion [..] only take up one disk for the pc and four for the 360?"

    Obvious answer: because it doesn't take up four disks on the 360?

    That's the last straw. Slashdot goes in my hosts file as redirected to 127.0.0.1 to force me to avoid it. Reading Slashdot is detrimental to my mental health, I just get angry at the brutally retarded stories these days. Be gone with you.

    1. Re:Read the god-damned article before posting. by Guppy06 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "Slashdot goes in my hosts file as redirected to 127.0.0.1 to force me to avoid it."

      Well, your post got through. Unless you just happen to be posting from one of the /. servers (Taco, 'zat you?), I'd say your redirect ain't workin'.