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Epic Vice President applauds Blu-ray

Posted on August 15th, 2007 at 09:38 EDT

Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, has gone on record to suggest that Blu-ray offers an extra level of breathing space over DVD when developing games.

He was speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival about Unreal Tournament 3, developed by Epic.

The often outspoken Rein seemed to seemed to welcome the extra storage space Blu-ray offers. A single layer Blu-ray disc can hold 25GB, whilst a dual layer can pack in a massive 50GB. Dual layer DVDs, used by the Xbox 360, have a limit of 8.5GB.

Rein warned: "We may have fewer maps on the 360 version…Blu-ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom."

"If you think down the road, well maybe the next UT beyond this one, on Blu-ray disc, we might fill the whole damn disc with all the cool stuff the mod makers make."

Ever since the PS3's inception there have been endless debates on whether or not Blu-ray extra capacity is really required for games. Perhaps such a statement from a high profile developer is evidence enough to suggest that Sony made the right decision to include Blu-ray with PS3.

Unreal Tournament 3 is scheduled for release on PS3 and PC later this year with an Xbox 360 version due out in early 2008.

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posted 9:55am EDT - August 15th, 2007
1

Lots of Epic love lately....but only fanboys will argue that blu-ray isnt good for gaming

posted 10:00am EDT - August 15th, 2007
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i cannot wait for UT3.... but I gues warhawk will suffice until then
posted 10:00am EDT - August 15th, 2007
3

go blue ray go.

posted 10:07am EDT - August 15th, 2007
4

I love Blu-Ray so fresh and so clean,clean!

posted 10:14am EDT - August 15th, 2007
5

there were still people up to this point wondering if bluray was a good idea?

posted 10:17am EDT - August 15th, 2007
6

People who claim Blu-Ray has no benefits are blind & stupid. I could write a long article about it, but we all know the facts...

posted 10:18am EDT - August 15th, 2007
7

I dont know why people continue to compare Blu ray to DVD.. Thats like comparing my 2008 Honda Accord to my freinds 1992 Honda Accord.. No contest.. lol

posted 10:24am EDT - August 15th, 2007
8

go blu-ray!!!!!

posted 10:55am EDT - August 15th, 2007
9

SWEET.  The PS3 is certainly the console of the future, just sucks that they're getting their hat handed to them in the present.

posted 11:37am EDT - August 15th, 2007
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Dude, this goes to again prove that the 360 is dead by now. DVD is too old and can't keep up with the games of this generation. Microsoft will probably have to release yet a third version of Xbox within this generation, cause the 360 is left behind.

posted 12:13pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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Juz lovin' this b) Blu-ray disc debate.......Can't MS just admit that b) is beyond, Bill Gates have nothing to loose with all that $ $cha ching$$

posted 12:21pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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Dont know if everyone read that article about Killzone 2 a month ago. It stated that just one level of the game took up 2GB of space! Also, the whole of the up and coming Ratchet & Clank game would take up 17GB. There's no way the xbox 360 will be able to compete with the PS3 in the future because of the amount of space needed for Next Generation games.
posted 12:21pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
13

Blu-Ray all day all night!!

posted 12:51pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
14

Sony makes their consoles with the future in mind,Sony knew the criticism was coming but they also knew that the future of a console is much more important.

posted 1:01pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
15

psn id: gingo.... developers rae finally seeing the light over blu ray and microsoft will be wishing they hadn't made comments about how blu ray is not needed

posted 1:01pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
16

more maps!!! Wo0t!!!!1

posted 1:43pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
17

That's RIGHT!  Unreal Tournament 3 has just recently become one of my most anticipated games of the year and I can't wait for it's release.

And you can't tell me everybody didn't see this comming?  Of course blu-ray is going to become neccessary! 

posted 1:54pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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Blu-Ray is next-gen, why do people want to hold back progress, yeah I spent alot of money on DVD's, but before that I had alot of VHS's, people need to realize this, the 360 is just an x-box souped up, nuff said.....

posted 2:02pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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I would like to personally thank Epic for not being lazy and more concerned with criticizing instead of spending less time in interviews and more working on their games. Words cannot describe how thankful I am to them that not only will Unreal Tournament III be on the PS3, but it will not be ported from the 360. That is all many PS3 owners truely ask when the day is done. Developers, just give it your all on the system and we will support you and we will give our money to you.

posted 2:23pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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honestly i dont think we will see the need for blu-ray until next year some time. come on, only a couple maps difference, they will put them up on live. gta iv is still gonna be the same for both systems. so there isnt anything yet that cant be made on the 360 because of the dvd's size.

posted 2:25pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
21

blue ray better than HD. we know this. wow, 3 diggs! hot shot aren't we?

posted 2:50pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
22

I once heard that HD 1080p movies was about 1MB/sec, so games will eventually need the storage, and movies defintely!

posted 3:12pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
23

"The often outspoken Rein seemed to seemed to welcome the extra storage space Blu-ray offers."

Nitpicky error.

posted 3:14pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
24
Games used to be able to fit on a couple floppy discs. Maybe they shouldn't have introduced the cd-rom and then the dvd. It's called the next step up people and it's called blu-ray.
posted 3:33pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
25

Only an idiot wouldn't admit that blu-ray has a BIG advantage over standard dvd.

posted 4:58pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
26

xbox3gypsy just cant handle the heat,,,, pstriple 4life

posted 6:04pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
27

FACT: Blu-ray is the best format on the market.

FACT: Sony has chosen the proper CD format.

yay! :)

posted 6:11pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
28

Is this really news?....seems like he is pointing out the obvious to me.

posted 7:12pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
29

blu ray is good its good for gmes and movies hddvd cost more and you get less with hddvd blu ray cost less and gives you more go sony nice jobp.s 360 can only hold 8.5 gb i thought it was 15gb tell me som one

posted 7:30pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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Bout time some1 gave blu ray some love, it is the greatest disc out there fir years to come

posted 7:32pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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HDDVD holds 15gb(30 on dual layer) but they're refering to their gaming standard DVD9 (dual layer version of standard 4.7gb dvds) which holds a maxium of 9gb. Since MS has refused to use HDDVD for games they lost a huge battle to the PS3 in terms of not only possible avalilable content but the visual fidelity of that content unless they use compression to squeeze more on to a DVD9 but they waste more loading time decompressing it and they can still never hope to push more than 12 compressed gb on a DVD9 which is still half the size of a standard BluRay disk.

posted 9:54pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
32

Man, M$ had to learn the hard way. NES game cartridges held under 1MB, SNES cartridges held 8MB, N64 cartrdiges held 128MB, Gamecube discs held 1.4GB and now Wii discs can hold 8.5GB. Same with Sony, PS1 discs had up to 700MB, PS2 discs had up to 8.5GB. But M$ fvcked up, because both Xbox and 360 has up to 8.5GB. Every generation, each system HAS to bump up in storage space...but M$ just wanted to "save money" because they are greedy bastards

posted 11:12pm EDT - August 15th, 2007
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This guy is a genius now if only these morons with that mini dell pc look a like with the computer form of death(three ring) will kindly take out there trashed box a better themselves since after all the first one got rocked by the ps2 and don't forget it report to gamestops and eb games around the world a obtain heaven's true prized system the playstation 3.
posted 12:43am EDT - August 16th, 2007
34

Everyone read what faizal5k (post #34) said!  It is so true.  Major cool points to faizal5k for bringing this to light.  If everyone would look at the xbox360's name it would show just what Microsoft had in mind about their so-called next-gen console.  Here we go ---->  the 360 attached to the name xbox360 really means xbox 360° (360 degrees) and what does 360° mean???  It means when you are going in a certain direction and turn 360° you will be going back in the same direction as before.  You see the xbox and xbox360 are actually going in the same direction, the last-gen direction.  I am glad Sony has the real vision for the future of the gaming industry.  PS3, it's in the box!

posted 4:24am EDT - August 16th, 2007
35

well done EPIC, it wont be long before PS3 games are so big with so much content it will be amazing. True next Gen!

posted 12:49pm EDT - August 16th, 2007
36

The funny thing is that devs probably had more space on the xbox dvd's because the 360's DRM take up about 1.5 gigs. There are 7 available to devs.

posted 5:49am EDT - August 17th, 2007
37

HAHAHHAHAHAHA gues what they cnat relase another console within this geration becuse the only way to fix this is make a new console that plays the discs that 360 which means all the 360 owners will go mad and it wont work hahaahhaahha they cannot make  mainstreeam 360 games on a larger capacty disc so SUCKS TO BE THEM

posted 9:42am EDT - August 17th, 2007
38

Even if Blu-Ray capacity isn't necessary, isn't it unfair that MS is selling games on DVD for the same price as PS3's Blu-Ray games?  You think that with a disc half the price of Blu-Ray, they would try to get the upper hand (while caring about their install base) and sell their games for cheaper.  Be we already found out they could care less about their console buyers.  RROD. And not just from store boxes, but from the replacement center.  That's sick, MS.

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