I am surprised not body said this. (unless I missed it by scrolling too fast.)

The last Xbox 360 update, had a feature for the 360s to read the new discs that have an extra 1 gigabite (or is it gigabyte?) of information, so all gaming compaines can put more on a disc now. Not sure if the discs are dual layerd or not, (I don't think so) so now you can have what 2.8 or more gigs on a disc now for the 360.

Lol, I remember playing Final Fantasy you had like three discs.

The FFXIII cutscenes for the PS3 are still compressed, just not as much as the cutscenes in the 360 version of the game (which also have a lower resolution). If the cutscenes truly were uncompressed the game would have been shipped on lots of blu-ray discs. Even the video in blu-ray movies are compressed (but the audio often isn't).

Anyway, the PS3 version of FFXIII supposingly have 10 hours of 1080p cutscenes. With 24 frames a second, without any compression that would be 1920 (X res) x 1080 (Y res) x 3 (byte depth = 24bit) x 24 (frames) x 60 (seconds) x 60 (minutes) x 10 (hours) = 5374GB. And a dual-layer blu-ray disc is 50GB, so 108 blu-ray discs would have been needed if the cutscenes were uncompressed. Instead it was compressed down to 32GB.

I knew compression techniques were much better these days, but that certainly puts it into perspective.

Well, truth to be told, few things can be compressed as much as video. And the TES games have very little video, in Oblivion there's the intro and that's pretty much it.

It fits into one disc because Bethesda can do magic.

They now make high capacity DvDs so that with compression techniques you con hold two or three normal games on a disk.

Quite a few of my games take up 25-30 GB.... pretty soon Blue-ray discs will be too small to fit a game on.

I think I read something saying they can just add more layers, the 50gb is just standard.

Ok, let me clear things up.
OB was distributed on a single layer disk, THAT is why content was cut in order to make it fit.
OB is 4.16 gigs on disk
FO3 was distributed on a dual layer disk and is 5.51 gigs on disk

Dual layer disk max cap = 8.5 gig(HDDVD = 9.5)

That means that Skyrim has 3 gigs more space available to it than was used in FO3.

Add better compression methods which are confirmed and there really is no need to worry about space. There is plenty.

Is that HDDVD Microsoft's new format?
Looks like we've go plenty of space, though.

Hmm.. probably the same way Oblivion fit on one disc. Yes I know they struggled a bit back then, but that was 5 years ago. Tech is better now.

Well, the sad truth is dual layer was available then it was just very expensive to distribute media on. That changed about 3 years ago.

From what I've heard, just some fantastic compression techniques...

vacuum packed.

I was wondering , is xbox360 going to have 2 discs because that would be irritating. Does anyone know???

1 disk

It's all going to fit on one disc. I don't have a source, but I'm pretty sure that was confirmed.

nope, inconcievable.

more than one disc? what is this a jrpg for the ps1?

One

Yep one disc. I was personally hoping for two, with one being a full-install. But oh well. :shrug:

Couldn't do that due to the fact every Xbox doesn't have a HD but... ya

thanx :celebration:

While I know that is the reason, I find it hard to believe people still have an X-box without an HDD. I mean, they quit selling them like that ages ago. Besides the fact that if you want practically any DLC it would require an HDD. But of course there would be complaints if it required an install. Just wishful thinking on my part.

Really, just one disk? L.A Norie was 3 disk and its barely the same size of Skyrim.