So Resistance is 17gb

[Beckii]

But Crysis looks better and will be smaller.

Infact, PC games have been doing 1920x1200 for years and the games still managed to fit on 4.7gb single layer DVDs. Why does Resistance need 17gb? Even the install for great looking high resolution PC games isn't anywhere near 17gb.

 

[Leekduck]

Because all of the audio and shit on the resistance Blu ray disc is uncompressed ( im assuming ). While ( im also assuming ) crysis has a ton of compressed data on each disk to minimize the dvd's.

 

[mistress_piper]

if you don't use it you'll lose it

 

[maya gold]

It's all about compression. Having 50 gb's is not really necessary right now except making the programmers jobs lazier.

 

[Aok706]

But they'll bitch about programming for the PS3.

 

[yankee fan 0308]

LOL, that's pretty bad. They don't have to compress so they can be lazy but say it's still too hard to program for.

 

[atiqa a]

If they need the space they can use it, if they dont they dont have to. It's always nice to have extra space.

 

[Tucker Bambaataa]

Yep. Apparently Assembly is the worst language to write for games.

 

[Josway]

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[Dirty Diana]

uncompressed surround sound at that....

 

[Jahtego]

and they actually don't write assembly for the games...they do however have to program for the neuances for the console ... kinda like back when we had sega genesis, snes, etc. Programing wasn't simply done in C++ it utilized what the consoles had available to them.

Most developing companies seem to want to use the least amount of money possible by reusing old code even if there are SDK's readily available to them.

 

[Forever&Always]

you'd think they'd come out with a better form of media, you can only read off of a disk so quickly

 

[zeegirl84]

like 15 gigs of resistance is padding

 

[Kunmui]

But its getting faster and faster and faster... I dunno. I'd imagine while the HD revolution is just storage space, they'll come up with a completely new medium for data storage and transfer within 10 years. Just my guess. Like solid state harddrives?

 

[gildedbutterflies]

Gears of War apparently was only 4 or less gigs? Best looking game ever made.

 

[simple yet astonishing]

and compressed like a mofo.

 

[tamara_cyan]

solid state hard drives have been out for a while.
i realize that transfer speed to speeding up, however capacity is becoming increased at a higher rate than transfer speed.

you've got a 50gb disk, how long will that take to read from begining to end? i guess it doesn't matter, because people have been putting up with long load times for years

 

[BigBalloon]

But computer resolution and the resolution output on tv is different.

 

[Gracie D.]

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[vinay_6543]

isnt Resistance currently the only true 7.1pcm (uncompressed) source out right now? there arent even any 7.1 blu-ray or hddvd movies with it