The demo of long awaited RPG blockbuster Final Fantasy XIII has unveiled an unpleasant truth for Xbox 360 owners: the demo alone is 5GB, more than the capacity of a single layer DVD, and of course the full game will be many times larger.
The capacity of a Blu-ray disc is 25GB for a single layer, 50GB for two, whilst a single layer DVD is 4.7GB and a dual layer one 8.5GB. Unfortunately, the Xbox 360 only has a DVD drive.
2ch provides its impression of the situation facing Xbox 360 owners when the game finally finds its way onto the platform next year:
This was what it was initially thought to be…
Expectations have however increased…
With the size of games ever increasing, suddenly the economy of including a standard DVD drive does not seem so wise. Much disc-swapping appears to be on the horizon…
Via Hachimaki.
The 360 uses dual layer discs, not regular DVD’s as mistaken by our Lord Hachimaki. While a large chunk is still wasted to security, 7.4~ gigs is the max games can use. I doubt it’ll be any more than a 3 disc set. (3 x 7.4gb = 22.4 gigabytes)
PS3 is good, but its too gad’ damned hard to develop games for!
I didnt read all the comments. I couldn’t torture myself to read a bunch of xbot faggots defending their failed poop again. Its bad enough when they attempt to use words to communicate let alone defend their total fail multi disk cack.
360=Inferior, get used to it. Ive owned a PS3, a Wii and a 360, of them all the 360 was the worst i say was cos like the rest of them it turned into a set of red disco lights which blinked at me for daring to use it.
Mind you its a good job the weebols exist nobody else would buy a faulty poop like a bust 360. Praise the lord for 360 weebols that buy used failed cack, enjoy multi disk rubbish and think its better…. Bless em.
Wow some stupid folks really believe this crap. Stick to talking about hentai and l♥♥i crap. This site shouldn’t try to give out real news.
Wow, you guys must be complete and utter morons if you really think that the 360 version requires 20+ discs.
Here’s what I learn from trying to copy FF7 onto floppy disk. 4 CD converted to something like a hundred thousand floppy.
The sad reality that Xbox 360 owners have to live with is that DVD is dated. Much like CD and diskette before it. Soon enough even BD will be obselete. We have to keep changing. Just accept that s♥♥t and move on pleas.
p.s. I’d kill myself laughing if my kid has to play FF21 on a 30 blu-ray disk.