joystiq.com — Resistance developers Insomniac stated that the game took up 22GB of space and that all those bits and bytes were necessary to make the game work. It would seem that ripping the disk in Linux shows otherwise.
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zenmojoNov 26, 2006
"47. 1. The final game is about 16gb not the 22gb as sited.<a class="user" href="http://blogs.ign.com/Ted-Insomniac/2006/10/19/">http://blogs.ign.com/Ted-Insomniac/2006/10/19/</a>"As we moved into the final week of finishing up the game we made two big changes which dropped the size of the final disc to just over 16Gb – still pretty large nonetheless. "2. As indicated by many posters, that thread is bulls**t. the 17.75 number is something Justin Murwii pulled out of his big wet assh**e."The bulls**t in this thread is getting up to my ears.
blackknight6Nov 27, 2006
Insomniac already said the game uses 22GB so your comp is misreading the info on the BR disc. But hey, lets think they are lying about the 22GB instead, oh wait, then does that mean we shouldn't believe that lots of the data is being duplicated?I am still undecided however, need more info. The fact the files are named padding is fishy in itself.
gt35rNov 27, 2006
Its amazing how much of what you just said is either completely wrong or has a 'political' spin on it. PS3 is backward compatible with 7800/800 PS1/PS2 games.
ku16610Nov 27, 2006
oh dear more xbox/wii fanboys posting before they get there facts straight
zerompNov 27, 2006
Inaccurate! From what I've heard it is much more like 22 Gb of garbage.
zetsurinNov 28, 2006
1378 retards who fall for the FUD. Lovely.
ptaylorNov 28, 2006
Why Joystiq didn't just confirm the story before printing it so that they wouldn't get egg on their face? Sony has to realize now that they really have no one in their corner for fair reporting on their products.On the flip side, I went ot Best Buy over the weekend and of course the system wasn't there to buy but it was there to try out. One, I REALLY think that NBA '07 shouldn't be the only game that people can demo (hint: it's football season too) and two, why is it that Resistance was one of the only games available for the PS3 in 720p? Why not 1080p? I'm not a fanboy of any particular system, just the one that satisfy my utils threshold (business school people know what I mean), but if I'm at Best Buy and online looking for 1080p HDTV prices to come down for a potential purchase, I would like to know that if I'm considering your system, Sony, that one of the best games out now (outside of Madden, I love football) for your system should be in the best resolution that your system can project, agreed? Otherwise, I'm missing something.A side note. Someone told me that the new HD-DVD add on for the 360 won't be able to play HD games. Is this true?
happyscrappyNov 28, 2006
Well, I can't be sure. But I was told if you ship enough stuff, any increase in weight adds up.If they ship an entire container, and it adds a few pounds, it should cost more to ship it.I don't know for sure though.3 DVD cases usually are double-thick (open front and back), the increase in case size will lead to perhaps a 30% increase in weight of the case. I have to imagine that matters.
happyscrappyNov 28, 2006
liquilife:I have to say, it is not obvious how padding to a 32MB boundary helps here. But then again, I don't think any of us know everything about how Sony's hardware and I/O routines work.One way that padding can help is if you arrange the start sector of each item on the disc so that you minimize the amount of rotation of the disc between the time you finish reading the previous item, seek and settle the head at the new location. Is that what is being done here? I dunno, I actually doubt it.Either way, it doesn't matter much. The amount of padding is not the difference between fitting on a dual-layer DVD and requiring a BD to fit. Even without the padding, the content is 50% more than a dual-layer DVD will hold. So it's all immaterial for this argument.