Final Fantasy 13 To Ship on 3 DVDs

[Rect Pola]

You know, not too long ago multiple discs was a high honor. FF6 was on 4.

FF6 was on one SNES cartridge. Not sure what you're talking about.

Whoops! Typo, I meant to write "FF7" had 4 CDs on PS1

 

[antipunt]

A short time later, a Square-Enix representative confirmed that the cinematics-heavy RPG will indeed ship on 3 separate discs

This bout explains it

 

[Adzma]

I'll be happy with my PS3 copy thank you very much SQUENIX.

 

[Blanks]

Lost odyssey was 4 discs, no surprises here

but it doesn't matter for me, I've got my PS3 copy pre-ordered and paid for.

 

[Blanks]

You know, not too long ago multiple discs was a high honor. FF6 was on 4.

FF6 was on one SNES cartridge. Not sure what you're talking about.

Whoops! Typo, I meant to write "FF7" had 4 CDs on PS1

No, FF7 was 3 discs, your thinking 8 and 9 that were on 4

 

[Vigilantis]

PS3 fanboys bait. "We get to save 20 seconds "

Minus the small amount of exercise we would get if we had to change the discs twice =) But I'm not angry that I get to be even lazier than 360 players. In fact...I feel as if...this is a victory of some kind.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Hmm, interesting to know. Admittedly the only game I ever remember playing with multiple disks was Driver 2 on the original Playstation.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Changing discs doesn't matter. It's 60 seconds total.

Now, Legend of Dragoon made you change discs as you wandered around, which sucked, as each disc only had part of the map.

 

[Infinatex]

You know, not too long ago multiple discs was a high honor. FF6 was on 4.

FF6 was on one SNES cartridge. Not sure what you're talking about.

Whoops! Typo, I meant to write "FF7" had 4 CDs on PS1

No, FF7 was 3 discs, your thinking 8 and 9 that were on 4

They re-released 6 for PS1, game was on 1 disc and FFX preview was on the second

 

[orangeapples]

Just imagine, in 2 more generations we will see games on 3 Blu-Ray disks.

just kidding, games will come on 1 TB flash USB drives and players will just swap them out to play different games.

 

[antigodoflife]

was expecting 4 myself

 

[antigodoflife]

Man, we'll have to switch two times during our entire playtime? Jeez, who would've thought, considering there are 3 discs?

I had to swap Mass Effect 2's discs twice, and there are only two.

The point I was trying to make though was more along the lines of "awww its gonna hurt my pretty little fingers and my fat ass to get up two times over the course of a 30+ hour game". But I am curious as to why you had to swap Mass Effect 2 twice, now that you meantion it.

guessing by the fact it's final fantasy you're more looking at a 50 - 100 hour game.

 

[Awexsome]

Well that's good news. I don't want a stripped down PS3 version for my Xbox. I remember the reasoning behind mass effect 2's dual disks, "You can't pack this much awesomeness on one disk".

So long as that remains to be true it's worth it, and I have high hopes that FFXIII will be packed full of awesomeness.

 

[Flying Dagger]

I think the fear is that you will have to disk change every time you return to a previous area, if you need an example, remember in Vice City, when you had those annoying loading screens when going from the right island to the left island, and how much more annoying those would have been if you had to change discs...

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I think the fear is that you will have to disk change every time you return to a previous area, if you need an example, remember in Vice City, when you had those annoying loading screens when going from the right island to the left island, and how much more annoying those would have been if you had to change discs...

Actually, that's what Legend of Dragoon did on the PS1.

And it pissed me off to no end.

 

[JaymesFogarty]

That doesn't even sound like it would be an issue. It's certainly not the first final fantasy game to ship on multiple discs. If I recall, numbers 8 and 9 required 4 discs.

Are some people really swayed that much by having to swap discs?

No, it's just more convenient to have the entire game on one disc. There are no problems with 3 discs, but it's easier if you don't have to change them.