Lack of disk space on the DVD for PGR4 is going to inhibit some of the game’s production, namely the ability to race on the same tracks and day and night. This is a posting from Bizarre Studios, the OFFICIAL forum for PGR4. The blogger mentioned here is Ben, who is also an OFFICIAL game developer. When asked whether the day/night tracks would be available, he replied:
You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.
It seems that Bizarre is the latest developer to have the DVD’s limitations stand in the way of progress.
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Write a Comment»Well that sucks. I’m guessing they’re using as much compression as possible. I think we’re going to start seeing multiple disk games on the 360 sooner than later.
What are the odds these tracks will be on the Xbox Live Marketplace for at least 200 MS points each?
Wow….I really can’t believe that we are already seeing disk limitations of the DVD format. I think drunk pandas is right and we will be seeing the double/triple disc games rather shortly.
And it would make sense for Microsoft to throw another thing on the Marketplace for us consumers to buy….making the end price for the “Complete” game upwards to $100 after buying all the new tracks/cars and whatever else they may put up there.
Nastrious - we’ve already seen a multiple disc game with Blue Dragon in Japan taking up 3 DVD’s.
haha! score one for blu-ray!
Honestly, I love 360 and all, but this really sucks. Now all Xbox360 owners are really SOL beacuse were going to have to start using double/triple when PS3 owners are just sitting there on one disk with blueray. I honestly may sell my 360 and all my games to get a PS3 now, but I’ll still wait until next year and see if devs. can find a good way around this because I love 360. That and all of my friends play it.
Found a link disproving it!