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    23gig games?

    Sony has revealed that its next-generation games console will use the Blu-Ray disc format, which is an evolution of the current DVD system that is designed to hold five times as much data on a similarly sized disc.

    A meeting in Tokyo yesterday saw the creation of a working group to draw up final specifications of a read-only Blu-Ray system, including representatives from many of the world's largest electronics companies such as Sony, Dell and Matsu****a (Panasonic).

    Until now, Blu-Ray discs, which are similar to standard DVDs but use more accurate blue laser light rather than the normal red laser light to read and write data, have been both readable and writeable.

    Sony officials confirmed that the next iteration of the PlayStation home console will be equipped with a Blu-Ray disc drive, allowing it to play back high definition movies (as movies are gradually expected to move from DVD to Blu-Ray in the coming years) as well as providing more space for game developers on the discs.

    Single-layer Blu-Ray discs can store up to 27Gb on one layer of data, compared to 4.7Gb on DVDs, although the version of the standard favoured by Sony holds only 23Gb - still around five times larger than existing DVD discs. The Blu-Ray specification also allows for reading existing DVD discs, so the PS3 will almost certainly still be able to handle standard DVD movies and PS2 titles.

    Video playback units based on the new read-only standard are expected to appear by the end of the current fiscal year, which runs through to March 2005 - the same timescale in which Sony plans to unveil the PlayStation 3 in public for the first time.
    Er is it me or is that too much space, the DVD side of things maybe but 23gig games? Even Doom 3 only needs 2gig.

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    people laughed at CDs rather than floppy disks...

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    True.

    You will most likely see people using it to release there entire back catalouge

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    doubtful, you can release the games separately for more money.

    it'll go where it counts - textures & audio.

    plus, that's an upper limit. not everyone'll use it. the average gamecube game barely approaches its 1.5gb per disc availability

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    I suppose something like Final Fantasy with the movies/cut scenes might fill it out as well.

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    They won't have to bother with as much compression too, as long as it can be read fast enough. So it might free up the cpu a bit.
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    the reason sony are pushing the blu-ray on their next console is simply protection, you get your games on a 27gb dvd who can copy it? media don't exist and they will most certainly have close to 2 - 5 gb on a dvd for a game but the rest will be false data to spoof the copiers

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    Its not about capacity its about copy protection, how many people you know with a blu ray disk copier?

    edit- ahh crap just read the above and its seem I was beaten to it

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    Also, they'd be able to fit the whole FF series on one disk perhaps? That would be heaven

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey M@a
    the reason sony are pushing the blu-ray on their next console is simply protection, you get your games on a 27gb dvd who can copy it? media don't exist and they will most certainly have close to 2 - 5 gb on a dvd for a game but the rest will be false data to spoof the copiers
    but how long until we see blue-ray writers? it wont take long!!!!



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    umm copy protection with false data is pointless tbh

    The blue ray discs will only help with copy protection if the actauly game uses tonnes of space. PSX/PS2/GC discs all use this kind of protection but if you want to copy one of those discs all you do it rip out the rubbish and u get just the core data left...

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    Textures and audio? lol, with playstation games you know it's gonna be cutscene, cutscene, cutscene.
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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex
    people laughed at CDs rather than floppy disks...
    Yea, i remember when games came out on 4 floppys or "PC-CDROM" (which filled 4meg out of the potential 650! )
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