FFXIII is 32.6GB of movies

[ninchya]

I actually like an rpg with superior graphics and story,isn't that basically what FFs series is about?!?!?!?

So far most of the older versions of Final Fantasy and other square enix games like lost odessty always have the best story and now it has music and graphics, this game is SOLD!!!!!!!!

 

[dnniwa485]

more on that... im hoping for dual DUB for the localize game... (though in most case PS3 always do a dual DUB on their games.. if available) but in xbox.. dual dub will be a BIG problem to them..

 

[Celice]

Wikipedia says HD DVD holds 15GB single-layer; Blu-Ray, up to 50GB--if the game is about 40GB, three HD DVD disks covers that.

Not to mention resizing the asinine video resolutions. People can brag all they want about quality, but in the end, if it's done well it's done right.

 

[myuusmeow]

Wikipedia says HD DVD holds 15GB single-layer; Blu-Ray, up to 50GB--if the game is about 40GB, three HD DVD disks covers that.

Not to mention resizing the asinine video resolutions. People can brag all they want about quality, but in the end, if it's done well it's done right.

360 uses plain old DVD-9s that hold about 8.7GB of data.

 

[Joe88]

Wikipedia says HD DVD holds 15GB single-layer; Blu-Ray, up to 50GB--if the game is about 40GB, three HD DVD disks covers that.

Not to mention resizing the asinine video resolutions. People can brag all they want about quality, but in the end, if it's done well it's done right.

1) HD-DVD is dead
2) MS doesnt make the external reader anymore
3) games have never been made on HD-DVD
4) the 360 uses DVD-DL media (aka DVD9)

also blu-ray single layer can now hold 33.4GB (66.8GB for dual)
http://kotaku.com/5441116/sony-increasing-...f-blu+ray-discs

 

[Celice]

Well that's what you get for listening to a PC/retro gamer only

(must've been years ago that I heard something or another regarding HD DVD and the 360)

 

[xxbrentonxx]

What all PS3 fanboys are failing to acknowledge is that the PS3 is one of the first consoles in which the games are not compressed. Plenty of multi platform games take up a full blu-ray disc on the ps3 and one DVD9 disc on the 360, despite this the 360 version is often equal to or superior to the PS3 version. Anyway back when N64 and PS1 were around, the ps1 versions of games could easily be 10 times the size of their N64 counterparts.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

What all PS3 fanboys are failing to acknowledge is that the PS3 is one of the first consoles in which the games are not compressed. Plenty of multi platform games take up a full blu-ray disc on the ps3 and one DVD9 disc on the 360, despite this the 360 version is often equal to or superior to the PS3 version. Anyway back when N64 and PS1 were around, the ps1 versions of games could easily be 10 times the size of their N64 counterparts.

That is true.

However, the Xbox360 versions are usually superior to their PS3 counterparts simply because multi-platform developers fail to utilise all 7 processors of the PS3; they only use 1 while 2 cores are used on the Xbox360.

That said, PS3 exclusives are almost always superior to their Xbox360 counterparts in the term of graphics and performance because all 7 cores (or hell, at least more then 1) are utilised.

 

[xxbrentonxx]

What all PS3 fanboys are failing to acknowledge is that the PS3 is one of the first consoles in which the games are not compressed. Plenty of multi platform games take up a full blu-ray disc on the ps3 and one DVD9 disc on the 360, despite this the 360 version is often equal to or superior to the PS3 version. Anyway back when N64 and PS1 were around, the ps1 versions of games could easily be 10 times the size of their N64 counterparts.

That is true.

However, the Xbox360 versions are usually superior to their PS3 counterparts simply because multi-platform developers fail to utilise all 7 processors of the PS3; they only use 1 while 2 cores are used on the Xbox360.

That said, PS3 exclusives are almost always superior to their Xbox360 counterparts in the term of graphics and performance because all 7 cores (or hell, at least more then 1) are utilised.

That is hard to be sure of seeing as how ps3 exclusives will never be run on Xbox360 hardware, and comparing completely different games isnt the best measure of how good a system is.

 

[BORTZ]

wow thats insane. I love stuff like this. So if the game is about 40 gigs, and dvd only holds 8.7 gigs (is that single layer or 2?) regardless thats over 4 dvds for one game lol. compression and resizing can only go far till its starts looking like poo.

On a side note, id love to see more movies like FF7. Not with a shitty story and voice acting, but in the way of visuals and style. I know its balls expensive and most of the time a gamble, but hey. it looks like Square is getting better at it.

 

[Uncle FEFL]

Holy crap I'm going to have to wait a long time to play this damn game on PS3. I had to wait a half-hour just for MAG Beta to install itself after download. I have to wait to install 40 GB of game lol.

Oh well, at least the discs run quietly.

 

[Joe88]

Holy crap I'm going to have to wait a long time to play this damn game on PS3. I had to wait a half-hour just for MAG Beta to install itself after download. I have to wait to install 40 GB of game lol.

Oh well, at least the discs run quietly.

the game doesnt install anything

http://kotaku.com/5387365/final-fantasy-xiii-is-install+free
http://playstation.joystiq.com/2009/10/22/...sy-xiii-on-ps3/

also why is this on the front page
I dont think it needs to be there...

 

[ragingchaosgod]

Crazy,Square Enix should do a movie themself

They kinda... somewhat... already have. And we see how well THAT turned out. -coffAdventChildrencoff- I'm kinda sad that it seems to be more movie than game.
I also hear you can't get lost in dungeons like you usually do. :/
It's... one long corridor of doom.

 

[Ace Gunman]

I don't think this is a negative thing whatsoever. 4 - 7 GBs is the regular size of a modern game. So what we're getting here is all the gameplay content of any other game, with the added bonus of 32GBs of high quality cutscenes. Don't look at this as the cutscenes taking away from the actual game, because in terms of similar products, they are not. They're just the very pretty cherry on top.

 

[DjFIL]

This is one of many reasons of why they need to start using real-time animated cut scenes and not pre-rendered videos... then you wouldn't need to waste so much on video. One side note, even though BluRay has huge capacity... the read speed slower then DVD's (true for 2X BD reader in PS3 vs 12X DVD-DL reader in Xbox 360... lots of articles out there about this), which is why the load times on PS3 average longer then that found on any Xbox 360 game (including multi-platform titles).

 

[Nottulys]

Shit, I might not even get this game anymore....I'll wait till its like $30 or $40 buckaroos, maybe even $20

 

[agony]

Shit, I might not even get this game anymore....I'll wait till its like $30 or $40 buckaroos, maybe even $20

Why would the cutscenes deter you from getting the game? Did you read the Ace Gunman had to say about normal game size? If you could wait that long for the game (and assuming the game would even drop to 20), I suppose you could go for it.

 

[xxbrentonxx]

wow thats insane. I love stuff like this. So if the game is about 40 gigs, and dvd only holds 8.7 gigs (is that single layer or 2?) regardless thats over 4 dvds for one game lol. compression and resizing can only go far till its starts looking like poo.

On a side note, id love to see more movies like FF7. Not with a shitty story and voice acting, but in the way of visuals and style. I know its balls expensive and most of the time a gamble, but hey. it looks like Square is getting better at it.

Have you heard of lossless compression?

 

[Anhmeister]

I don't think this is a negative thing whatsoever. 4 - 7 GBs is the regular size of a modern game. So what we're getting here is all the gameplay content of any other game, with the added bonus of 32GBs of high quality cutscenes. Don't look at this as the cutscenes taking away from the actual game, because in terms of similar products, they are not. They're just the very pretty cherry on top.

This. Entirely.

 

[Akuma147]

Final Fantasy Advent Children Blu-ray was on a 50gb Blu-ray disc (Not to mention numerous extras and a 1080p animated episode), so let's assume the main movie is 30-40Gb, maybe smaller.
A blu-ray rip was posted on the internet by a well-known anime group/person named Thora.
He released a 1080p version at 11Gb and a 720p version at 6.5Gb, both with DTS 5.1 and were compressed using the x264 codec. These blu-ray rips look awesome and are very comparable to the original Blu-ray.

Square-Enix says they have 3 Dual-layer DVDs to work with, so that means about 8Gb X 3 = 24Gb. If 6.8Gb is used for the game, then we still have 17.2Gb of space for videos. Now, let's assume that Square-Enix compresses the 32Gb videos to 720p. If Thora was able to compress a 30-40Gb Blu-ray at 720p to 6.5Gb (with comparable quality to the original blu-ray), I'm pretty sure Square-Enix can compress that 32Gb to at most 17.2Gb, which would be more than enough to compare to the original source. So I have no doubts that the Xbox version would have very comparable video quality to the PS3 version.