Mark Rein, VP of Epic, legitimizes Blu-Ray in the ps3...says games will be 20gb

This article may be a bit old, but it's still relevent to today.  I especially like Mark's views that the prices of games should be going down, and not up.  Here are a few quotes that i like:

Mark Rein concerning Blu-Ray:

"Unreal Tournament was 6GB compressed. Next Generation games are going to be 20GB plus, and how we're going to fit them on DVD9's I don't know, they'll probably be a few of them. On the PS3, we're going to be using the majority of the space on those Blu-ray disks."

Mark Rein thinks that the prices of games should be going DOWN, not up:

"I hate to hear people talk about "We're going to charge more because it costs more". Sure, it costs more because you're developing using better technology and making better games. Not just because you're wasting money developing your own tools...

...there's other technology you can buy, not just ours. People who are trying to re-invent the wheel are spending way more money than they should. Our own games, we're seeing a 30-50% increase in cost, but we're expanding our teams and make much better games.

UT 2007...[is] not processed three times, and it's not costing us 30 million USD. There's no excuse for us to raise the price....When we worked with Atari, they sold our games for $39 and we actually agree with that policy. Reduce the price of our game, not increase it.

It's a little more difficult to do that on consoles because you're paying royalties to the manufacturers, but you're paying royalties to subsidise the machine and marketing. If we were able to share with them the money they make from rentals and retail, that could help lower the price. I hate hearing people want to raise the price....My point is that if we can make it more affordable, we can grow the market. One of the ways we can do that is to use Unreal Engine 3 and take advantage of the productivity gains you can take from that."

thats what i wanna hea, pass some love to the ps3

i never understood why it takes so much money to develop a game, is the dev. kit coin-op or somthin?  

thats what i wanna hea, pass some love to the ps3

i never understood why it takes so much money to develop a game, is the dev. kit coin-op or somthin?

StrayMBlasTER

Glad to see some industry workers thinking logically instead of going around saying "PS3 sucks" and wasting time..

Either way, it's going to get cheaper eventually anyways. Especially with the number of bought units rising. I remember PS2 games being 80 (79.99 before taxes) bucks when it first started (here in Canada) and look how much they've dropped? And even PS3 games don't make that price.

I think having Blu-ray is awesome, but you can still do a lot with less. Xbox Live Arcade had a 50 MB limit on games. One of those games used Unreal Engine 3 and was really impressive at under 50 MB. 9 GB is 184 times larger than 50 MB. You can get a lot of good game in that amount of space. Granted, you can get 10 times more game on Blu-ray. So, what am I babbling about. Blu-ray is awesome, but DVD-9 will do alright on the 360 I say. I won't shed a tear if a game spans two or three discs.b11051973

I agree. I wish MS had gone HD-DVD or Blu-ray when they made the 360 but I don't think not going HD-DVD is going to destroy the 360. Look at the gamecube it had most of my favorite games from last gen that looked better than most PS2 games and the discs only held 1.4 GB. Disc space is important but can easily be overcome by great gameplay and design. Ocarina of Time was 32MB on cartridge and FF7 took up around 2 gigs on 3 CDs and both were incredible games in their own ways.

$39 back then is like $120 right now. mikeslemonade

Mark Rein joins the Insomniac, Kojima and Team Ninja team of "blu-ray is needed".

What devs have expressed them selfs so far saying blu-ray was a gimmick or not needed?

Mark Rein joins the Insomniac, Kojima and Team Ninja team of "blu-ray is needed".

What devs have expressed them selfs so far saying blu-ray was a gimmick or not needed?

lordxymor

Nice.  Someone posted something about a month ago about a developer from EA saying that Blu-Ray is a big plus, and once it is fully utilized, it will be a determining factor against the 360.