51GB HD DVD disc gets official.

the HD DVD format has taken the lead in capacity...by 1gb. But who would've thought?

Toshiba just announced that it has successfully created a triple-layer disc with 17GB per layer, which amounts to 51GB, a full GB more than those dual-layer Blu-ray discs can muster.

Toshiba is already in the process of submitting the new extension of the format to regulatory approval, however, the word on the street still amounts to a potential Q4 release, and it's still unclear at this time what kind of manufacturing costs or complications these new discs will incur.

The format war is far from over.

Even though a dual layer BR can fit 100gb (irrelevant for gaming IMO...a 100gb game? right...sure) , this is just what the 360 needs for movies , storage & extra game content. Just the right amount I reckon.

And I laugh at a 100gb game cause that's a developers nightmare/paradise/downfall all in one go. And prices would go through the roof for one game. Not to mention the time it'd take to make a game of such size.

Just imagine PGR5 on a triple layer disc or COD5...or any game for that matter.

What do you lot think? Would you pay $50 more for a bigger game with more features & content? I know I would if it meant extending a game's life waaaay beyond it's original timeframe.

Further proof..Xbox 360 rules.

Except that 360 uses DVD, not HDDVD, and MS has said numerous times they have no intention of publishing games on HDDVD so as not to alienate those who can't be assed paying the massive amount of money for the HDDVD addon.

Yes Drifster. Yes it does.

Just imagine...

If developers can already make 360 games as good as they do with 9gb , imagine what they could do with 51.

100gb is just irresponsible. Nobody needs that amount for any game since the begining of time.

That's why the 360 rocks my socks. It's not the size , it's what you do with it that counts & developers have already proven this time & time again.

Rav , I believe that HD-DVD games will happen. Companies will be forced into using them by way of competition & consumer demand. Microsoft say that they won't now but since when do they ever tell the truth.

Just a thought. But yeah...I think it'll go that way in the next 2/3 years.

100gb is just irresponsible. Nobody needs that amount for any game since the begining of time.


Right, and Bill Gates thought 640k of memory was more than enough for a personal computer.

Eventually, we will start getting into the nextNext generation where VR and Wii X 10 interaction games will be on the market. Then, 100gb might just seem not so large at all. Remember Mario, he would have been shocked if he would have heard a game being over 1 Gig.

Personally this really doesn't affect me at the moment, and I really can only say Kudos to Toshiba for nudging ahead of the BR.

10 years ago people would have said 10 gig was a stupidly massive amount of space for a game.

N64 cartridges were, on average, only 256mb.

Considering games like Mass Effect and Halo 3, I'm sure they could fill a blu-ray's worth of disc easily. As textures and audio become more detailed, fitting it all on disc is going to become more of a pain in the ass, and the bigger the disc the better. The less compression you need to get through, the faster you can load the information.

You gotta remember that back then , no one really knew about memory or storage medium.

Now , we know everything about it. We have the technology to discover new things at such a rapid rate.

Bill Gates didn't know back then that there'd be a terrabyte HDD available now.

Really , do you see a 100gb game anytime in the future?

Not including additional content , what game can justify that amount of space?

And I was just having a really small poke at BR.

Until it actually happens , I'll be the first to say no.