Producer for Xbox 360 game says DVD presents storage issue

• 11 years ago

Microsoft has been waiting for the dust to settle on the higher capacity Blu-ray squabble and has yet to make a decision on what format to use for it’s new Xbox 360. Meanwhile life goes on and in this interview at Gamespot with the software producer for the upcoming high-definition RPG, Enchant Arm, we can read that even 2 DVD’s may not be enough space to hold an entire game.

From Software producer Masanori Takeuchi, who’s been working on Enchant Arm, a role-playing game slated to be an Xbox 360 launch title, said developers will also be running into issues of storage space in the next generation. While the Xbox 360 is a next-generation console, Microsoft decided to equip it with a normal DVD reader rather than give it HD-DVD or Blu-ray reading capabilities. “The volume of data in Enchant Arms won’t fit into a single DVD. It’s an RPG, so we’re thinking it would be inevitable that we release it on two discs,” says Takeuchi. “But to be honest, that’s even looking grim.”

Games, they sure have pushed the computer industry for as long as I have used a PC. How many of us used to install games like Lucas Arts X-Wing or The Secret of Monkey Island via floppy discs? I can almost hear that Midi music playing again in my head. We can also remember when the CD came out later and a 1 gigabyte hard disc was “never going to be filled” as all the games or applications would simply run from the CD.

Source: Gamespot