Resistance For the PS3 Currently 22 Gigabytes

[Shawn Andrich]

Resistance For the PS3 Currently 22 Gigabytes

In a preview for MTV, Insomniac Games claimed that their PS3 exclusive Resistance is already 22 gigabytes.

While detailing [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1539078/20060821/index.jhtml?headlines=true]Resistance: Fall of Man, an exclusive FPS title for the PS3, Ryan Schneider claimed that the game is already 22 gigbytes in size. "We're going to fit more on a Blu-Ray disc than you could on an HD DVD," he said, referring to the format which can only hold 15 gigabytes. The Xbox 360 uses regular DVDs, which hold seven gigbytes.

The preview also mentioned their plans for multiplayer, claiming that it will support 40-player online matches at launch, 60 levels of player progression while playing online and two-player offline co-op.

Resistance: Fall of Man is currently set to be a PS3 launch title on November 17th.

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[Virgil]

Speaking on a purely technical level, dual-layer HD-DVDs are already in commercial production, and hold 30gb each. Given that, they'll have to balloon the game content by another 8gb to make sure it wouldn't fit on a HD-DVD (though that's kind of an irrelevant talking point, since no game console has plans to support HD-DVDs for gaming anyway).

Of course, a game taking up 22gb screams excess to me - the only thing I can imagine taking up that much space reasonably would be pre-rendered high-def video, or a lot of completely uncompressed audio. Unless they've also got an as-of-yet unheard of art asset production capacity, there's no way that much space could be consumed by gameplay visuals.

 

[Demiurge [deprecated]]

Yeah, okay, your game is big. I'm happy for you. Are you going to make it fun?

This whole Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD argument is a pissing contest. I don't really care if your game is 500kb. If you want to sell me a PS3, save some space on that disc for the fun and then we can talk.

 

[Ian Dorsch]

Schneider offered some distinguishing stats (which he called MTV News on Tuesday to further clarify). The game, he said, currently takes up 22 Gigabytes of memory on a Blu-Ray disc, the new disc format supported by the PS3 that is one-half of a VHS-vs.-Betamax format war erupting between tech companies throughout the year. While the music and vocals in "Resistance" take up only about 1 Gigabyte of disc space, graphics, level data and programming code occupy most of the remaining 21.

Well. Sounds like these guys have successfully assembled the most bloated, unoptimized mass of graphics, level data and programming code ever created for a game.

And hilariously:

Phillips promised better, deeper support than any Xbox Live launch title.

So it will better and deeper than what? Unreal Championship? Xbox Live as a service will be four years old by the time Sony launches their PS3 online service.

I don't know, I mean, it looks like a neat game and all, but no amount of Sony marketing is going to convince me it's $650 worth of neat.

 

[DrRosenRosen]

I personally promise that we will all be wading in better, deeper pools of marketing poo by the end of the year.