Resistance Fall of Man - 22Gb Due to Localisation?
- From: Unmutual <andrewstirling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:27:33 +0100
From ozymandias.com (a biased source but interesting comments nonetheless.
"In that article I stated that while I believed we'd see games released on larger discs, I didn't believe the content on those discs would directly impact the game itself (versus having "making of" or other random bonus material).
Appears this is the case with Resistance. A recent interview with the developer in the Unofficial Playstation Magazine stated that the 22 GB "game" size was made up of localized content. In other words, instead of having an English version of the game, a French version, a Japanese version, and so on on separate discs, all of that localized content is simply being bundled on one disc. While that makes things a bit easier for the developer, the disc capacity isn't being used in any meaningful way to improve the game. And frankly, I believe time will show (after the game is released and people start poking around the file system) that there isn't any reason the title couldn't have shipped on a DVD-9.
As to Hirai's quote on next-gen games needing 2-3 discs, the simplest answer I can give is to just look around. There appear to be plenty of next-generation games out today that are doing just fine on one disc... I'm really not sure what game store he's been shopping at. And this holiday when you're able to compare next-gen titles side-by-side on multiple platforms, I suspect you'll quickly find the vast majority are on one disc, and that the game content is identical.
I thought the the poke about "caching the game to the hard drive" was a bit odd as well. At GDC Europe last year Sony mentioned in their presentation that the PS3 Blu-ray drive would have sustained peak transfer rates of 36 MBit/s (4.5 MB/s) at 1x speed. Since then it appears that the drive has been upgraded to a 2x drive, which would enable transfer rates of 9 MB/s. Assuming a full 50 GB Blu-ray disc, at this speed you'd need just over 90 minutes to read the entire disc through memory. Of course, you can't fit all of that data into system memory at the same time, so you'll either be streaming a great deal (hard even with faster optical drives) and/or caching data to the hard drive. There's a reason the PS3 is so expensive - once Sony committed to Blu-ray as a corporate strategy, they were also forced to bundle the hard drive in every box to help mitigate slow disc data transfer rates. PS3 games need that hard drive to load in any reasonable time - just look at the PSP for an example of the effects of a slow optical drive on game loading times."
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