Square
Toriyama and Versus producer Shinji Hashimoto defended the decision to release FFXIII on the PS3. According to Hashimoto, the development staff determined that one, two or three DVD9 would not be enough for the type of visual expression they were attempting to make. Toriyama noted that, regarding visual expression, the PS3´s shader abilities are a big factor.
Ubisoft
OPM: How´s your experience with the storage media of the PS3, the HDD and the BluRay disc? And do you have any comparable experience with HD-DVD technology?
M.M.: Our focus is 100% BluRay, so I cannot compare with HD-DVD. I can only say that the new BluRay disc format is truly awesome. The capacity is immense, and the Data Transfer Rate is way beyond what we are used to. And that´s really important, because Data Streaming (OPMED: where the console constantly loads new data from disc) is truly the only way to push next-gen games to the limit. The Playstation 3 HDD is something that we have so far given less attention to, because it hasn´t been certain all that long yet that it will be standard on every console. Decreasing load-times by copying a part of the game to the HDD is one possibility, though it doesn´t matter all that much for a streaming game like ours. But there are tons of other applications, such as the possibility to as it were record your whole game, to be able to watch a replay of it later on. We intend to use the HD optimally, but how, I can´t tell yet currently
"The Darkness" developer:
"The 360 is a fantastic machine. I really really like it. The only thing, you know, that is going to cause trouble is the amount of storage space available on a DVD... thats really a problem."
Team Ninja
"The infamous Team Ninja front man has a thing or two to say about Microsoft´s decision to assign standard DVD format to the Xbox 360. Limiting his development team to a measly 9GB does not sit well with Itagaki, especially when Team Ninja is looking to include any number of (MS-coveted) HD cut scenes. It´s ironic that Microsoft has been the most outspoken about the "HD era", but is the least prepared for it... However, don´t be surprised to see an Xbox 360.1 springing up in a year or two, complete with HD-DVD drive."
Vivendi Universal
"The technical requirement for game development today demands more advanced optical-disc technologies," said Michael Heilmann, chief technology officer for Vivendi Universal.
"Blu-ray offers the capacity, performance and high-speed internet connectivity to take us into the future of gaming."
EA
"EA, a leading games developer and publisher, added that the delivery of high-definition games of the future was vital and Blu-ray had the capacity, functionality and interactivity needed for the kinds of projects it was planning."
Mark Rein
Unreal Tournament was 6GB compressed. Next Generation games are going to be 20GB plus, and how we´re going to fit them on DVD9´s I don´t know, they´ll probably be a few of them. On the PS3, we´re going to be using the majority of the space on those Blu-ray disks. So, online isn´t really the best option in some instances.Downloading 30Gb isn´t really feasible. What online could be, is the back-channel to get additional content. Patches and things like that. I think what Valve has done is great. It´ll be interesting to see where marketing fits in. Now they´re going with EA in the future, the biggest publisher of all. You can´t do one without the other, otherwise no-one knows about your game. Unless you have the huge marketing budgets that major retailers have when launching your game, so I think there´s still a very important role for retailers.
La Xbox 360 est techniquement dépassée, POINT BARRE.
