Blu-Ray investment justified, says Sony

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Source: Gamesindustry
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Responding to comments from PGR4's developer indicating that the team had problems fitting the data on a single DVD, Sony says that its Blu-Ray investment is justified.

"We took a lot of heat at launch for including Blu-Ray in PS3. Now it looks like that investment is being justified," said SCEA spokesman Dave Karraker, speaking to GamesIndustry.biz.

"Next generation games simply need more space on the disc to contain all that high definition content. Take a look at Lair, for example, already pushing 25GB of content, and that is a first-generation title. At 50GB storage capacity, Blu-Ray gives the PS3 plenty of headroom for developers to fully realize their visions well into the future."

mike2h

i have been wondering how this is going to affect 360 in the future(near?).

calidan

A lot of people have been complaining about the load times. Personally I prefer higher quality in the games vs. load times. Unfortunately some games don't utilize the hard drive very well. In Ridge Racer you can install some portion of the game to help w/ load times. Motostorm on the hand does not do this. I'm not sure how many games let you install part of the game but it's something that developers should include in games.

The_Neon_Cowboy

rofl , they have paid out so much money advertiseing blueray LOL

as for effecting the 360? how would it ms can add a Blueray drive
as a "attachment" like the HDDVD drive is...