Mass Effect is 6.74 GB

[waa_waa_wii_waa]

Your post only added another level of confusion to this, deathmonkey...

[Deathmonkey7]

We need Power in here, the god of all things technical.
His word is final.

[Gnu]

A DVD9 holds 8,543,666,176 bytes.

By modern convention, 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes.

The confusion comes from the fact that for years, everybody considered computer storage measurements to be in the original computer definition for a kilobyte, megabyte, etc. In recent years, these measurements were redefined to be KiB, MiB, etc. But, old habits die hard.

[waa_waa_wii_waa]

So you're saying that "GB" is an old, archaic method that people simply haven't let go of yet and that, technically speaking, it doesn't really exist any more?

[Mallhew]

Originally Posted by waa_waa_wii_waa

Your post only added another level of confusion to this, deathmonkey...

+2gb

[downphoenix]

Wasn't Blue Dragon a 3 DVD game? Isn't Lost Odyssey going to be 4 DVD?Wouldn't that make it like 20 gig and 25 gig or so respectively? Or was it just on single layer DVDs and they decided they wanted to spend the extra money to have to require an extra disc or 2?

[Juno]

Originally Posted by downphoenix

Wasn't Blue Dragon a 3 DVD game? Isn't Lost Odyssey going to be 4 DVD?Wouldn't that make it like 20 gig and 25 gig or so respectively? Or was it just on single layer DVDs and they decided they wanted to spend the extra money to have to require an extra disc or 2?

They have lots and lots of FMV. That's what takes up the space.

[Gottaa]

FMV != Gameplay so as far as I'm concerned the less FMV a game has the better, if I wanted a movie I'd watch a movie, nothing worse than wanting to play and just having to stare at some dross FMV sequence explaining how the story arc really does make sense in the right context and wasn't just knocked up in 2 seconds on a toilet roll and needed FMV to try and make sense of it.

FMV should be considered last gen in my opinion, to improve gaming the answer isn't better high res video you simply watch and can't interact with.

[chedabob]

That's a kick in the nuts for Blu-ray/Sony/PS3/Guerilla.

[Power666]

DVD9 holds roughly 8.5 GB. DVD9 is single sided with two layers. I'm under the impression that the DVD's used for the Xbox 360 cannot utilize the full 8.5 GB for game data. I can't recall the exact reason nor the actual capacity for game data off hand but I suspect it has to deal with copy protection and system files.

DVD10 holds roughly 9.4 GB of data. It is two sided with one layer per side.

The reason DVD9 has a '9' in the name is due to rounding and to make the double sided solution sound better by using '10' in the name. They couldn't name the two different types the same.

Originally Posted by Deathmonkey7

We need Power in here, the god of all things technical.
His word is final.

I don't hear enough worshipping.