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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.

  2. A problem that's going to get worse too by ChrisRijk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Xbox 360 games are likely to get more detail and more complex over time, so being limited to 9GB per disk is going to become more and more of a problem.

    Anyone want to bet Microsoft do an "updated" Xbox with higher capacity DVD and other tweaks...?

    Meanwhile, PS3 developers get to use a whole Blu-Ray disc...

  3. PC Games? by coolestdickofall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure I quite understand this.. PC games have been high res for many years. They don't seem to require multiple DVD-9s...

  4. Re:No wonder by Keeper · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not only that, but the pc version is shipping on only one disc.

    All of the "oh no, the sky is falling in because HD games need higher res [foo]" talk is just rediculous. PC games have been running at > HD resolutions for years, and they still manage to ship on one or two CDs.