Blu-ray Validated: PGR4 Limited by DVD

[Xerious]

a long time ago i was told by a friend who lived in japan of their way of thinking. he told me that the japanese do not plan for the next day, nor the next year, but the next ten years. when they build roads, buildings, business plans, etc... they think about what will be there in ten years time and adjust plans accordingly to make things as fluid as possible come transition time. they believe in what we call "futureproofing" a product so that when 10 years comes, a product you have now will not be obsolete. someone once said that widescreen tvs are just a luxury item... and? the same people that 1080p would be useless as there were no sets that could handle it... and where are we now? someone said that HDMI 1.3 was pointless... no one uses it? what about now? they will always force the present time's limitations on you because that is all they know... when you plan for the present, you live in it... when tomorrow comes, they will reap more money from your upgrades... this is how americans work.

a fine example is the PS2... still strong afer all these years? why, because it had everything in box that people wanted (DVD player... remember how they said the DVD player would bring it down becuase of the price??, optical audio output, usb ports, HDD expansion-which sucked i admit)...

the xbox 360 will be obsolete in the next two years so you will see a steady stream of "fixes" and promos like the elite... the next will be the ulitmate, and then the extreme, and then the super deformed platnium edition... the list will go on...

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Garconis

You mean PGR4.

Yes I do. I've changed the title. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Xerious

a fine example is the PS2... still strong afer all these years? why, because it had everything in box that people wanted (DVD player... remember how they said the DVD player would bring it down becuase of the price??, optical audio output, usb ports, HDD expansion-which sucked i admit)...

The PS2 was in many ways ahead of its time. With less than half of the processing power of the Xbox, it was able to compute twice the FLOPS - a very amazing accomplishment. The PS3 is no different. It has been designed to have a shelf life much longer than the 360. The most difficult time in the PS3s life is the beginning. Once it becomes established (I think we are witnessing that now), the gains will come in its longer lifecycle.

[becomingwater]

I really hope they make GTAIV in a good way for the PS3 and not have it limited because of XBox.

[JTK]

Originally Posted by becomingwater

I really hope they make GTAIV in a good way for the PS3 and not have it limited because of XBox.

We all do!

[kindredwolf]

Originally Posted by becomingwater

I really hope they make GTAIV in a good way for the PS3 and not have it limited because of XBox.

Sorry, but I Don't think so.
The optimization of Ps3 would mean a 50GB game. Filled with either more content or better graphics sound etc.
How on earth can they make the same 50Gb game then fit in M$ 360's DVD9? 4 to 5 discs? doubt it..
Face it, As long as there are more schmucks who opted to pay the same price for an inferior product, we will have to suffer. Or do what i plan to, don't buy GTAIV if it's gimped.

Now for those praying that MGS4 goes to 360......Even if they twist Koji's arm to do the port, they can't stop him from filling the original game to hit the PS3's maximum. And Good luck porting that to dvd9....

[Xerious]

what about the DLC on the xbox?? lol... you'll be paying $59+10 per episodic content... not to mention you'll have to use M$ points which isn't even real money...

[Seboist]

The Xbot trolls are flaming this story on the PS3 fanboy comments section:

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/08/01/...sony/#comments

[RichiPuppy]

lol, it's funny, some say that compression would save it, you don't think the developers thought of that?

[Xerious]

xbutts enjoy bending over for M$... compression... hah, if i had a nickel for everytime i heard that one...

[victorvondoom88]

The Xbot trolls are flaming this story on the PS3 fanboy comments section:

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2007/08/01/...sony/#comments

Wow those xbots crack me up. They keep talking about multi-disc games. Well there is a simple reason why it will be the exception and not the rule: Production Costs. That is the bottom line. Why spend 10.00/per unit to produce a game when you can spend 5.00/per unit you still get to charge 60.00 each at retail.

For the record I dont have actual production costs for one disc vs. two those are just hypothetical numbers.

Look at Gears of War they axed the two fights with the Brumak(large creature that chases you after leaving the mansion) because of disc space.
Not to mention that the game is about 8-10 hours max start to finish. Just think how short it would have been without all that clever compression

Then they always talk about downloadable content. Well my "premium" 360 has a 20gb hd, well you can only use 13gb of it the rest is M$ junk. Now I have about 6 demos(5-6gb), RB6 Vegas Red & Black pack(2.2GB) and a few other things and I have an amazing 3gb left. Sure you can get rid of demos but the map packs from RB6 you basically have to have for online play.

To top it off the dev's can't even write the games to use hd support due to the fact that there are so many "core" systems with no hd's at all.

The bottom line is the ps3 has all the benefits with none of the weaknesses.

You think there are any developers out there going "damn 50gb's just isn't enough for the game, were going to have to drop some content".