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#1 SonyHater
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1.  You can almost fit the entire NES library on one CD.  The biggest games being only a few KB (kilobytes)

2.  You can almost fit the entire SNES library on One DVD.  The biggest games being only a few MB.  (Zelda and FF 3 are only 3-6 MB in size)

3.  YOu could fit the Entire N64 library on one Blu-Ray disk.  The biggest games like Zelda: OoT being 32MB.  The biggest game was the Resident Evil 2 remake at 64MB but that was the only game to be that size.

1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte.  or 1 million KB= 1 MB

A standard CD can hold between 640 to 700MB

1,000,000,024 MegaBytes equal 1 GigaByte.  or 1 billion MB= 1 GB

A standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB.  You can also have a dual layer DVD that holds 9 GB.  You can also have a Dual Sided and Dual Layer DVD that holds 18 GB.

1 Blu-Ray disk can hold 50 GBs.
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#2 Corvin
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Is it any surprise companies wanted to switch to optical storage rather than cartridges?
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#3 ArisShadows
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I still going to buy DVDs and support them..
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#4 AHUGECAT
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Is it any surprise companies wanted to switch to optical storage rather than cartridges?Corvin

Too bad Nintendo didn't get the hint. Nintendo just doesn't know how to make consoles (but man do they know how to make games!).

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#5 tranhgiang
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Time change, vision change.

Airplane used to be a crazy idea.
Personal computer used to be a crazy idea.
Heck, even let the actor speak in movies used to be a crazy idea.

According to your argument, game jump from a few kbs, to a few mb, to a few hundred mbs, to a few GBs. Why do you think the trend will stop at DVD ?

Wait till true 3D (hologram and what not) come out, then we will talking Terabytes. 9Gbs? Pffts

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#6 da1on2
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I missed the logic....
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#7 Kenshi_is_god
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DVD's should be enough for this gen, with compression technology still evolving... no doubt the next set of consoles will need a new format.
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#8 slobbymac
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1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte. or 1 million KB= 1 MB

SonyHater


a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes not a million. . . its a million bytes
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#9 killerkop
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1. You can almost fit the entire NES library on one CD. The biggest games being only a few KB (kilobytes)

2. You can almost fit the entire SNES library on One DVD. The biggest games being only a few MB. (Zelda and FF 3 are only 3-6 MB in size)

3. YOu could fit the Entire N64 library on one Blu-Ray disk. The biggest games like Zelda: OoT being 32MB. The biggest game was the Resident Evil 2 remake at 64MB but that was the only game to be that size.

1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte. or 1 million KB= 1 MB

A standard CD can hold between 640 to 700MB

1,000,000,024 MegaBytes equal 1 GigaByte. or 1 billion MB= 1 GB

A standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB. You can also have a dual layer DVD that holds 9 GB. You can also have a Dual Sided and Dual Layer DVD that holds 18 GB.

1 Blu-Ray disk can hold 50 GBs.
SonyHater
1,024 Byte = 1 Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB) 1,073,741,824 Bytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB) 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabyte (MB)
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#10 air0123
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[QUOTE="SonyHater"]1. You can almost fit the entire NES library on one CD. The biggest games being only a few KB (kilobytes)

2. You can almost fit the entire SNES library on One DVD. The biggest games being only a few MB. (Zelda and FF 3 are only 3-6 MB in size)

3. YOu could fit the Entire N64 library on one Blu-Ray disk. The biggest games like Zelda: OoT being 32MB. The biggest game was the Resident Evil 2 remake at 64MB but that was the only game to be that size.

1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte. or 1 million KB= 1 MB

A standard CD can hold between 640 to 700MB

1,000,000,024 MegaBytes equal 1 GigaByte. or 1 billion MB= 1 GB

A standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB. You can also have a dual layer DVD that holds 9 GB. You can also have a Dual Sided and Dual Layer DVD that holds 18 GB.

1 Blu-Ray disk can hold 50 GBs.
killerkop
1,024 Byte = 1 Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB) 1,073,741,824 Bytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB) 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabyte (MB)

Thank you, and slobbymac.
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#11 Marka1700
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Just remember compression also advances over time, what once coule be compress down to 500MB 10 yeras ago could be turned into 200-250 Today.
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#12 danabo
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Welcome to the world of mathematics. I suggest reading up on Moore's Law and exponential growth.
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#13 some_canadian
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1. You can almost fit the entire NES library on one CD. The biggest games being only a few KB (kilobytes)

2. You can almost fit the entire SNES library on One DVD. The biggest games being only a few MB. (Zelda and FF 3 are only 3-6 MB in size)

3. YOu could fit the Entire N64 library on one Blu-Ray disk. The biggest games like Zelda: OoT being 32MB. The biggest game was the Resident Evil 2 remake at 64MB but that was the only game to be that size.

1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte. or 1 million KB= 1 MB

A standard CD can hold between 640 to 700MB

1,000,000,024 MegaBytes equal 1 GigaByte. or 1 billion MB= 1 GB

A standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB. You can also have a dual layer DVD that holds 9 GB. You can also have a Dual Sided and Dual Layer DVD that holds 18 GB.

1 Blu-Ray disk can hold 50 GBs.
SonyHater
I'm pretty sure you could get 99% of the n64 games on a dvd
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#14 VScalar
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I missed the logic....da1on2
I wouldn't say you're missing it, Bob.
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#15 El_Fanboy
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Time change, vision change.

Airplane used to be a crazy idea.
Personal computer used to be a crazy idea.
Heck, even let the actor speak in movies used to be a crazy idea.

According to your argument, game jump from a few kbs, to a few mb, to a few hundred mbs, to a few GBs. Why do you think the trend will stop at DVD ?

Wait till true 3D (hologram and what not) come out, then we will talking Terabytes. 9Gbs? Pffts

tranhgiang
When did anyone think letting an actor speak in movies was a bad idea??? i know its off topic but i couldnt let it go.
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[QUOTE="SonyHater"]1. You can almost fit the entire NES library on one CD. The biggest games being only a few KB (kilobytes)

2. You can almost fit the entire SNES library on One DVD. The biggest games being only a few MB. (Zelda and FF 3 are only 3-6 MB in size)

3. YOu could fit the Entire N64 library on one Blu-Ray disk. The biggest games like Zelda: OoT being 32MB. The biggest game was the Resident Evil 2 remake at 64MB but that was the only game to be that size.

1,000,024 KiloBytes equal 1 MegaByte. or 1 million KB= 1 MB

A standard CD can hold between 640 to 700MB

1,000,000,024 MegaBytes equal 1 GigaByte. or 1 billion MB= 1 GB

A standard DVD can hold 4.7 GB. You can also have a dual layer DVD that holds 9 GB. You can also have a Dual Sided and Dual Layer DVD that holds 18 GB.

1 Blu-Ray disk can hold 50 GBs.
killerkop
1,024 Byte = 1 Kilobyte (KB) 1,024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB) 1,073,741,824 Bytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB) 1 Gigabyte (GB) = 1,024 Megabyte (MB)

you got it

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#17 AsadMahdi59
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how come the ds carts hold 128mb but evry1 says they go up to 1gig?
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Is it any surprise companies wanted to switch to optical storage rather than cartridges?Corvin
No load times FTW, plus the 64 was better at texture than the PS.
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#19 danabo
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[QUOTE="tranhgiang"]Time change, vision change.

Airplane used to be a crazy idea.
Personal computer used to be a crazy idea.
Heck, even let the actor speak in movies used to be a crazy idea.

According to your argument, game jump from a few kbs, to a few mb, to a few hundred mbs, to a few GBs. Why do you think the trend will stop at DVD ?

Wait till true 3D (hologram and what not) come out, then we will talking Terabytes. 9Gbs? Pffts

El_Fanboy
When did anyone think letting an actor speak in movies was a bad idea??? i know its off topic but i couldnt let it go.

"In the first, 1930 edition of his global survey The Film Till Now, cinema pundit Paul Rotha declared, "A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronised and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema."[92] Such opinions were not rare among those who cared about cinema as an art form; Alfred Hitchcock, though he directed the first commercially successful talkie produced in Europe, held that "the silent pictures were the purest form of cinema" and scoffed at many early sound films as delivering little beside "photographs of people talking."[93]" From Wiki but you get the idea :P