Xbox 360 Fanboy

As far as reasons to own an xbox versus PS3, I guess that now makes the score about - Xbox 360: 100, PS3: 2

Don't be jealous of Xbox 360 because we have so many more titles than you to play. We didn't force you to spend your dollars on PS3, your choice.

Yeah, Blu-Ray is great if you don't mind filling up your HDD with required preinstalls for some games because of the slow disc read speed. Few people can argue that the extra disc space is needed for current gen gaming whether it come through muliple discs or a larger format, but without adequate read speed you are still selling your consumers short. Blu Ray was really too young to try to implement in the current gen consoles.

Wow, I guess some of you didn't like what I said. I don't think that it should have been taken as a compliment that nearly two years into the console's lifecycle there have been only two games that needed the extra space that Blu-Ry provides. Unless the difference is significant, I'll still probably buy this for the 360 anyway. I haven't played a game on my PS3 for at least two months, cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market FTW.

Seeing as though MGS4 is half cut-scenes, they could just stream those in High Def to your 360 from the net, and fill a single layer DVD required for the actual playable content ;)

All kidding aside, this looks interesting. Its a typical old school FPS, which Ive always enjoyed. Either way, since this will be available on PC, i will be getting the PC version so i can enjoy true 1080p (and hopefully play that on my LCD TV on the couch, assuming its games for windows), which no console will be able to offer. X number of DVDs mean nothing when you have 3TB at your disposal.

42GB DVD's require a new reader. You'd probably be more likely to see a downloaded install than a 42GB DVD player.

Yeah, really? The royalty limits is a secondary problem, existing simply due to a primary problem. The primary problem is STILL the capacity of the DVD.

Having to use multiple DVDs is a very minor problem and, at worst, an inconvenience. The thing that's causing the Xbox 360 version to be inferior to the PS3 version isn't the capacity of the DVDs, since it wouldn't be a lot of effort to just use more of them, but the fact that Microsoft penalizes developers for their own failings.

Umm. It's not a question of swapping disks. That wouldn't be a big issue. It's the fact that it's going to look worse on 360 because they have to compress the game on two disks because they can't afford the royalty fees. Do you even read the posts?

The man clearly said that it was an "at this moment" thing.

What that means is that if MS does not charge too high of a royalty fee ID will put it on 3 disks and it will look just as good.

Do you guys read? It clearly states so on the report.

Well Carmack's almost certainly crappy game uses a fancy new technology to stream massive textures. These textures are so huge that you need a relatively tremendous amount of storage. Regular DVDs just don't cut it. That's the point of the post.

Thanks Captain Obvious.

I guess that you missed my point. I find it funny that MS repeat history by not anticipating the need for more storage space just like their founder supposedly under-anticipated the market with the 640k remark.

But that was implied, after all. :P