Games Already Filling Blu-Ray Discs

Eurogamer reports that according to Sony's Phil Harrison, PS3 launch titles are already getting close to the 25 GB limit on Blu-Ray discs. He views this as a positive thing, and suggests that the company will up the limit on the media format to 50 GB sometime next year. From the article: "Harrison also responded to questioning about the claim that the capacity of Blu-Ray will be used simply to provide more high definition movie sequences, effectively filling the discs - and games - with non-interactive content. 'It's not just about graphics,' he said. 'It's about 7.1 audio, it's about speech, it's about having up to 1080p movies built into the game; it's high-res textures, it's animation, it's everything that goes into making a very rich and varied next-gen experience. Partly it's visual, partly it's sound, and partially it'll be down to gameplay benefits as well - more levels, more detail, richer experiences.'"

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Hi Rez Content

[Neo_piper]

It's worth it because, you know, EVERYONE has a 1040i tv now

Re:You know...

[Ender Ryan]

You're really trying extremely hard to be a short-sighted dipshit, and your comparison between BMP and PNG is retarded.

The real comparison you're looking for is BMP => JPEG. Lossless compression simply isn't enough to fit modern games on a DVD. Perhaps with Blueray, if the developers just don't need the whole disc for content, they can use lossless compression in that case.

Now, you can criticize Sony all you want for the expense they went to in order to add the extra storage, but to deride the fact that they added more storage is short-sighted and stupid.

After all, 640K is not enough for everybody(yes, I realize Bill Gates didn't actually say that).