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Originally Posted by Thumper
#1 - You proved my point. Of course 50GB is not required yet. Why would you design a game that could not be made with current technology?
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It is not needed yet. Unecessary technology is bad. Its a waste of money. Most games dont even come close to needing a 5GB DVD, let alone a 9GB dual-layer DVD. Game makers have only just begun to switch to DVD, do we really need Sony jumping in and shoving a format we dont need yet down our throats? DVD has plenty of life left in it, and the price per GB is far, far less than Blu-Ray.
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#2 - Compression is not an ideal solution, ever watch a DVD that has been compressed? Bad quality.
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Texture compression is lossless, meaning that it doesnt lose any quality after being compressed. Its like converting a picture from BMP to PNG. PNG uses lossless compression, so while it takes up considerably less space, the quality remains the same. Not to mention that uncompressed textures take far longer to load. So why not compress them?
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#3 - Wrong. I would be most interetsed in a game with 600 hours of gameplay. Even if I were alone (and I am not) your statement that "No one would want a FPS that lasts 600 hours." is incorrect, as I would, and I am not no one.
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You are in the minority. Most people want to actually beat an FPS in a reasonable amount of time, or it gets boring and repitive. Perhaps if you made an RPG-style FPS you could pull it off, kind of like the GTA series.
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Everyone is entitlted to their opinion, I feel that the future is where we should strive to go, if you disagree that is fine.
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Again, you are welcome to your opinion, but I would thank you not to tell me what I know and don't know. I never said the only reson to change was this, or that. The fact is they had to move from cartridge to CD, you're comments on why do not change the fact that the change was needed. And I don't recall anyone complaining about these "new fangled CDs" as not needed yet when they first came out.
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CD's are cheaper and hold more data that cartridges. So it was win-win situation. On the other hand, Blu-Ray holds more than a DVD, but costs far more for space that isnt even going to be used for years.
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