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[Zathalus]

There he is.

I'm flattered that you have this unhealthy obsession with me, but it's frankly starting to get a bit creepy. Go fondle your PS5 or something.

 

[LectureMaster]

Wait, they are releasing disc versions of the game now??

If you play the game since November you would know.

That pre-order page is literally the biggest thing on the screen every time you open the launcher.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

PS5 games come in 100Gb UHD Bluray, and it is also a reader that plays movies better than the XBX.

Perfect for people who have their console on a other room. Or those with impaired hearing.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

I'm flattered that you have this unhealthy obsession with me, but it's frankly starting to get a bit creepy. Go fondle your PS5 or something.

 

[Kupfer]

Wait, they are releasing disc versions of the game now??

They release an awesome Deluxe Edition!

https://box.baldursgate3.game/

Can't wait for mine.

 

[soulbait]

Are we sure it is a capacity issue and not a compression issue? I thought I read somewhere at some point that Sony has a better compression technology, so maybe the way the game is packaged and compressed is different?

With games not playing directly off the disc, the way they are stored on the disc to then be downloaded could be different.

Anyone know if this could be the issue?

Edit: After reading some of the comments it seems like the it has been known that games are only stored on 50GB discs on the XSX games. Interesting. Not sure it matters too much, but it is still interesting.

 

[K.N.W.]

How many discs is MGS4 going to be on Xb.... Oh, wait sorry, wrong year!

 

[solidus12]

How many discs is FFVII Rebirth going to be on Xb.... Oh, wait sorry, it’s still exclusive.

Fixed that for ya

 

[adamsapple]

How many discs is MGS4 going to be on Xb.... Oh, wait sorry, wrong year!

Game data is 140GB, should fit in 3 discs comfortably.

 

[Mahavastu]

Series X has to take more disc?

You get more discs for the same price. Better value

 

[German Hops]

You get more discs for the same price. Better value

I feel like this was the mentality back in the PSX days when FFVIII would ship on 8 discs,

 

[Connxtion]

PS5 games come in 100Gb UHD Bluray, and it is also a reader that plays movies better than the XBX.

3 year old video but yeah the player they use in Xbox is crap

Might be fixed now though.

 

[Frwrd]

Series X has to take more disc?

Phil when he got asked if they’d take multiple discs:

 

[Oppoi]

The Xbox being the poor mans Playstation is very true and the truth is in the details.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Finally some good news for Playstation.

On top of the other good news for PlayStation this year. Nintendo and Sony tend to bounce back nicely.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I don’t think they care since they are going for adorably digital future.

Phil Spencer seems to backtrack on that, most likely due to Sony and Nintendo demanding physical releases.

 

[Beechos]

I guess. Luckily with Xbox you can download the game digitally on your ssd to have it ready when you put in the disc. One of the few things ms has done right.

 

[ShirAhava]

Q1 2021 called it wants its news back

PS5 using higher quality discs and being a better 4K blu ray player has been known since right after launch

The Series X has the same disc performance and backwards compatibility as the Xbox One X
one of the 1000x reasons I went for the Series S over it. Series X is a Xcloud server that was placed on the consumer market. Big whoop You can stream 12tfops even on the One X didn't see the point of the Series X at all.

 

[DaGwaphics]

I'm surprised that the developers don't default to the cheapest 25GB disk and use multiples for most games. Would save them money and a standard case can hold 4 disks. Would make installs more annoying though.

Did you completely forget about the performance differences there @ ShirAhava

Also, even the 1S could play triple and quad layer disks (films), unknown as to why they choose not to support those formats with game disks.

 

[Katatonic]

 

[StereoVsn]

Phil Spencer seems to backtrack on that, most likely due to Sony and Nintendo demanding physical releases.

Doesn’t mean he would release disk based games on Xbox though.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Begun, the disc wars have.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

The disc version came out like three months ago. I bought it from Play Asia in November.

BUT...this version is censored, just picked it up to have a physical version before I ordered the collectors edition from Larian. I don't even open my games anymore...maybe its just a code (kidding...its not a code)

 

[Kumomeme]

lol this remind me of PS3 bluray vs Xbox 360 dvd

 

[Kumomeme]

Begun, the disc wars have.

 

[Deerock71]

Series X has to take more disc?

 

[lmimmfn]

Does anyone give a shit?

 

[Portugeezer]

More discs is more value. Xbox wins

 

[SHA]

Ff fanboys gives a shit, 3 discs games is drugs to them.

 

[Shakka43]

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Well, Xbox is going to stop using disc, so...

Are we sure it is a capacity issue and not a compression issue?

No, at all, Sony is using bigger disc, plain and simple, it's not related to compression but to disc layers (Sony is using triple layer 100 GB BR unlike Xbox stuck at dual layer 50 GB BR for whatever reason).

Conventional (or "pre-BD-XL") Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs (100 GB) and quadruple-layer discs (128 GB) are available for BD-XL re-writer drives.

 

[SkyHighTrees]

They should patch their HDMI bandwidth. Go 4:4:4 on 120hz games, I wanna use VRR with full color and sharpness!

 

[sendit]

Shouldn’t impact the majority of Xbox Series owners as most own the Series S and chose to blacklist the Series X.

 

[onQ123]

Begun, the disc wars have.

It's always been a disc waving contest since the beginning

 

[sachos]

This is one of the reasons many of the Series X physical editions suck, coupled with Smart Delivery it means most of the time you only get the Xbox One version of a game on disc while on PS5 you preserve the actual next gen version of the game.

 

[nikolino840]

More discs more joy

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

Could of been worse for both if blu Ray lost the war. We be using HD DVD

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Could of been worse for both if blu Ray lost the war. We be using HD DVD

Today's reminder there exists a timeline where the standard for spinning round discs is HD DVD and everyone uses phones that run Windows Phone

That is by far the darkest timeline, if it existed it would become a Lostbelt and be pruned from all branches of human history

 

[KuraiShidosha]

I posit that my fiber internet can transfer data orders of magnitude faster than a Blu-ray disc can be read. Physical media truly is dead and it's a tragedy.

 

[Bojji]

I posit that my fiber internet can transfer data orders of magnitude faster than a Blu-ray disc can be read. Physical media truly is dead and it's a tragedy.

It's not about transfer rates, it's about ownership.

 

[solidus12]

 

[Drew1440]

The Series X can play back 4K Bluray right? I know the One X can. Don't 4K Blurays go up to four layers typically?

 

[Three]

I'm surprised that the developers don't default to the cheapest 25GB disk and use multiples for most games. Would save them money and a standard case can hold 4 disks. Would make installs more annoying though.

Did you completely forget about the performance differences there @ ShirAhava

Also, even the 1S could play triple and quad layer disks (films), unknown as to why they choose not to support those formats with game disks.

Why do that when you can save money and use 1 disc and require the user to download the rest. That way you get your "physical release" at the cost of the customer not being able to do anything with their disc offline. Xbox has been notoriously bad when it comes to that and this is probably why.

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

Series X has to take more disc?

Perhaps thats why MS is going all digital

 

[SeasonedInTheAbyss]

My (disc) is much bigger than yours... My (disc)can walk right through the door
With a feeling so pure
It's got you screaming back for

 

[Clintizzle]

My life has completely changed.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The few cool things about physical releases on Xbox are when this happens:



Well and I guess the Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition physical release which is the definitive version on Xbox Series X and not PS5 as Phantom Liberty comes on a disc for Xbox while for PS5 it comes as a voucher code (yuck).

 

[BlackTron]

What good is a big disc with nowhere to stick it?

 

[skneogaf]

What is BG3?

 

[JackMcGunns]

50GB disc limitation has been known for quite a while. Something to do with using the same disc between the One and Series generation. Not like it really matters as you have to install everything anyway.

Yes. Smart delivery has been a major advantage for Xbox since launch, everyone remembers the shit show that was Spider-man when it launched on both PS4 and PS5, there was so much confusion.

Meanwhile on the Xbox side, you can pop any disc on either Xbox One or Series X|S and it just works, the transition from Xbox One to Series X was light years more seamless than PS4 to PS5, but in the last 4 years, we don’t see headlines yelling from the top of mountains, it was just quietly swept under the rug, and I guess over time Sony fixed the saves across systems and other shortcomings or people just moved on.

Now 4 years have passed and we have ONE game that finally makes a difference, so score one for PlayStation because of one game that uses 2 discs instead of 3. Yay? I guess?

Are people just digging for ways to show advantages over Xbox? sure seems that way. What a nothing burger.