360 Discs Large Enough For Content?

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 20, 2006 @09:29AM from the kids-have-to-have-space-to-grow dept.

heartless_ wrote to mention a GamesFirst article exploring whether or not Xbox 360 Discs are large enough for their expected content. From the article: "The first Prince of Persia occupied 2.44 gigs, the second 2.88, an increase of only 18%. Knights of the Old Republic went from 3.65 gigs in the first installment to 3.99 gigs in the second, a 9% increase. The Splinter Cell series went from 3.71 gigs in the first to 3.05 gigs in Pandora's Tomorrow, a reduction of 18% (though it should be noted that Chaos Theory, after switching development houses, ballooned into one of the largest games on the Xbox at 5.62 gigabytes). So the assumption that games, by their nature, grow in size as they evolve is not absolutely true. They do become more complex, but not necessarily at the expense of filesize."

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Re:HD by vune · 2006-01-20 09:40 · Score: 3, Interesting

Indeed. A more suitable comparison might be the difference between Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag.
What is so bad about multi-disc? by Guspaz · 2006-01-20 10:06 · Score: 2, Interesting

Didn't Final Fantasy 7 ship on 4 CDs? Of course, they probably could have fit that onto once CD if they had more powerful hardware to use more modern (or just more complex) compression. Still.

Anyhow, I would imagine it costs less to press two DVDs than it does to press one BD-ROM.
Since when is bigger better? by CyberZCat · 2006-01-20 10:10 · Score: 2, Interesting

I for one am against bloatware. If they can make a better game in a smaller package, what's wrong with that?