100 GB BluRay Disks Useable On PS3

"Although not ready for primetime quite yet, Hitachi claims it has developed a prototype four layer Blu-Ray disc capable of holding 100GB of data. While concept 100GB multi-layer discs from companies such as TDK and Panasonic have been announced before, they have always required a specially developed optical head in the player to read the disc. Hitachi, however, claims that current Blu-ray drives would only require a firmware upgrade to be compatible with the new disc.

The manufacturer is reportedly working to stabilize signal quality before considering a commercial roll-out for the new discs, and is also working on an eight-layer variant of the technology, which would yield a Blu-ray Disc capable of holding 200GB."

It's too bad the PS3 can't write to disk or that would be mass storage for very cheap. Sony should make some compilation disks of PS2 games on Bluray, like 'Top 50 PS2'.

Cool, but very very old.Liquid-Prince

Wow that would be so insane. 200 gigs, that's almost more than what my computer has. Games on a disk like that would have 100 levels or 4000 cars or 20 cities. That's crazy. But then again they would probably cost an arm and a leg. Only time will tell.lrsp

Thats hypothetically speaking.

Sony wants you to believe that garbage. Look at games like Heavenly Sword and Uncharted. Both games are short and have been said to be under 12 hours.

If developing a game was free, then yes PS3 games would be capable of this. But developing 75 hour games with gigantic worlds/universes is not going to be the main use for the game. Its for uncompressed audio and CGI mainly.

[QUOTE="lrsp"]Wow that would be so insane. 200 gigs, that's almost more than what my computer has. Games on a disk like that would have 100 levels or 4000 cars or 20 cities. That's crazy. But then again they would probably cost an arm and a leg. Only time will tell.-ReD45

Thats hypothetically speaking.

Sony wants you to believe that garbage. Look at games like Heavenly Sword and Uncharted. Both games are short and have been said to be under 12 hours.

If developing a game was free, then yes PS3 games would be capable of this. But developing 75 hour games with gigantic worlds/universes is not going to be the main use for the game. Its for uncompressed audio and CGI mainly.

garbage or not if games are going to use 100 0r 200 gb blu-ray disk the price for the games will go through the roof and developers will know this and won't risk it. it's all about making a profit not making a great system or disk that wont make money.

this is why i think the ps3 is lagging in sales because of what i just said. i think the xbox 360 is better suited for making and playing games.

Wow that would be so insane. 200 gigs, that's almost more than what my computer has. Games on a disc like that would have 100 levels or 4000 cars or 20 cities. That's crazy. But then again they would probably cost an arm and a leg. Only time will tell.lrsp

Or really good lighting, textures, etc.

Cool, but very very old.Liquid-Prince

It was just posted. 100GB disks have been announced before but if you read it, it says these ones will be able to do it without new hardware so they could be used with the PS3. As for using 100GB leading to soaring production costs, that's true right now but not too long ago games came on CDs so they've increased in size about 10x in the last 10 years and a lot of games coming out now are already using 20GB.

It's too bad the PS3 can't write to disk or that would be mass storage for very cheap. Sony should make some compilation disks of PS2 games on Bluray, like 'Top 50 PS2'.

AlienOverlord

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It's too bad the PS3 can't write to disk or that would be mass storage for very cheap. Sony should make some compilation disks of PS2 games on Bluray, like 'Top 50 PS2'.

hot114

how did he do that you cant read or something?

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It's too bad the PS3 can't write to disk or that would be mass storage for very cheap. Sony should make some compilation disks of PS2 games on Bluray, like 'Top 50 PS2'.

Crazy87

how did he do that you cant read or something?

I think PS2 compilation disks would be insanely awesome. I'd buy them.

[QUOTE="lrsp"]Wow that would be so insane. 200 gigs, that's almost more than what my computer has. Games on a disc like that would have 100 levels or 4000 cars or 20 cities. That's crazy. But then again they would probably cost an arm and a leg. Only time will tell.AnFangs_Endes

Or really good lighting, textures, etc.

I don't think lighting requires disc space, but you could get some awesome textures put together (look at Rage made id games). Also isn't the Blu-ray drive on the PS3 only double layer? If so then my guess is that we can only use 50 gigabyte discs (which is more than enough). We must also consider the load time restraints that enormous levels and uncompressed sound would cause oftentimes making them impractical. This will be nice though because it leaves plenty of room for FMVs and extras (FF 13, Stranglehold with Hard Boiled included on disc).

[QUOTE="lrsp"]Wow that would be so insane. 200 gigs, that's almost more than what my computer has. Games on a disk like that would have 100 levels or 4000 cars or 20 cities. That's crazy. But then again they would probably cost an arm and a leg. Only time will tell.-ReD45

Thats hypothetically speaking.

Sony wants you to believe that garbage. Look at games like Heavenly Sword and Uncharted. Both games are short and have been said to be under 12 hours.

If developing a game was free, then yes PS3 games would be capable of this. But developing 75 hour games with gigantic worlds/universes is not going to be the main use for the game. Its for uncompressed audio and CGI mainly.

Uncharted is 12-15 hours. And look at how many enemies Heavenly Sword can have on screen at a time.