I've been looking around and I cant find anything relating to the next place they'll take Xbox 360 discs..
IMO, Xbox has already lost... HDDVD is dead, and therefor, there will be no room for next gen games. (Forget consoles, its too early to release another console)
I just dont see how they can match up when PS3 hits its maximum disc capacity. I believe we're at 50gb so far, compared to 360's 8gb. Thats 6 xbox discs to equal 1 PS3 disc. and you say disc switching isnt a problem? you can handle taking the disc out and switching it every once in a while? yeah... i totally agree.
But seeing as how physically, a bluray and a dvd are the same size... i guess they could make games on PS3, with 50gb blurays, with a 2 disc game. Math time! 6 dvds=1 bluray... sooo, 2 blurays=12 dvds.. You're willing to buy a game that comes with A DOZEN discs? i dont think so, id rather have 2 discs... less $ to lose...
But wait, we arent done yet. Seeing as how Toshiba bowed out, leaving bluray to become the new format, TDK has been working on something special for us.
Witness: http://news.softpedia.com/news/TDK-200GB-Blu-Ray-Disc-The-world-s-highest-optical-disc-capacity-22753.shtml
Two Hundred Gigabytes... im not even gunna bother converting that one. Sure it says that so far most bluray players are unable to read the new TDK disc. But the format battle ended on Feb 16, 2008, if I did my research correctly. That means its been almost 2 years into bluray and they've released the largest capacity ever on an optical disc format. I give it another year MAX before this is perfected and the possibility of a bigger PS3 game is here...
You will install the game onto the hard drive of your 360 you say? You really wanna spend all that time importing all that onto the harddrive? Either way, the largest 360 HDD i can find so far, (correct me if I'm wrong) is 120gb. This is the smaller of the two options for PS3. And even then, when Bluray reaches full capacity, you will only get to install 2 games on that HDD before its full.
I will give a benefit of the doubt that a larger HDD will be available by that time. But if the HDD for 360 can increase, then so can the HDD for PS3.
And lets not discount the fact that the new PS3s can use laptop HDDs, instead of the proprietary ones for 360. Also, who says the PS3 has to even use a HDD?
Witness: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6192258/index.html
With advances being made in SSD technology, PS3 may end up going for SSD right outa the box some time soon. I bring this up, not because I am seeking to write off the 360, but because I'm concerned for the competition. If 360 does lose, (theoretical here) and all the developers jump ship for bigger capacity, that leaves no competition to bring the price of the system (or games) down. I WANT 360 TO DO WELL, if only to keep the market hot.
So I bring it to you, see if you can find a reasonable solution for this, and post it. DVD capacity increasing? Better compression methods? I dont care, debate with me about this please.
P.S. I did my research, please do yours too.
The_EdgE999
You know, it's not only the new PS3s but also the old ones as well. In fact all PS3 have an upgradeable HDD slot. Now according to gamespot, putting a SSD in place of the HDD won'tsignificantly make the PS load times faster. From what I've read, the 2x Bluray drive holds it back. Plus if you can afford a SSD just to put in your PS3 NOW then you have to much extra money laying around. It's like buying a 500 GB HDD for your PS3, it's too much. Besides you can always just network your PS3 to your computer and watch movies and pictures from there; you can do the same on the Xbox.But the price of technology is going down so I'dsay all next gen systems, be it 2012 or 2016 , will use SSDs.
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