It clears up any doubt that Bizarre Creations is good at spin control.
You could just as well turn that back around see that he is clearly admitting that,
"yes, if we or had we spent more time and resources on PGR4 we could and would need more disc capacity than a single DVD9".
It’s also disappointing to see a spokesman fall into the same weak argument as often seen on forums where someone calls someone else a fanboy just because they pointed out a fact that makes their position/opinion look flawed.
Yes, there are "fanboys", many who drastically exaggerate the facts, and who will blindly support whatever it is that they are a "fanboy" of, but there are many consumers who are simply pointing out real facts, one of which happens to be that there are real limitations to having games on DVD9, just as there was when games were on CD:ROM. Imagine what it would have been like had the PS2 or the original Xbox been released with only a CD:ROM drive… well, that is pretty much what we are seeing with the X360 being released with only a DVD drive.
That said, as others have mentioned, it's not the size of a game that determines its quality, and that many "small" games are absolute classics and a joy to play, and I'm sure there have been many "massive" games that were terrible games, and a waste of time to play.
That said, no amount of spin is going to hide the fact that DVD9 has been around for over ten years, and some game developers were using up its limited capacity as far back as four years ago. And all anyone has to do is track the history of game development for consoles and the physical data size of games over the last 10 years and one quickly sees it is following a similar formula of growth as determined by Moore's Law and thus current and future games are most certainly limited by DVD9.
In fact, as seen from Resistance: FOM, Lair, Heavenly Sword, Killzone 2, MGS4, GT5 and other PS3 games, developers are already developing and releasing games using 2-5 times more disc space than those on a DVD9.
Yes, developers could release a multi-disc set, but with today's non-linear games, that would drive gamers crazy... which is why there have been almost no 2-disc games on consoles. GT2 came out over seven years ago, and it had the advantage of having basically two different game modes that could be broken up rather successfully.
Others might argue that, like some PC games, they could release multi-discs that you would then copy onto your console's HDD, but first you would have to have a fairly large HDD, and then you'd have to be willing to spend a very long time copying it to the HDD. And unless you had a huge HDD, or very few games, you'll also have to be willing to spend countless hours deleting and re-installing your games off the HDD... thus why I seriously doubt we will see many, if any multi-disc games for the X360.
There are a lot of things you can say about the X360, much of which is very good, but one thing it will always be remembered for are the many sacrifices Microsoft made, incuding the lack of any next-gen blue laser optical disc drive, in order to get a one year head start on Sony and to cut as many costs as possible, including its design.
Considering the X360 has not come close to matching the sales of the PS2 along the same product release timeline, and with its current sales pace, may not even match the sales rate of the original Xbox. And considering that Microsoft has lost well over $6 billion dollars already in their Xbox endeavors, and is expected to post another $1-2 billion dollar loss by the end of the year, suggests that their gamble not only hasn't paid off, but has made things much worse as far as recouping their significant investment.
It is for these reasons and others, why many MS investors are furious with Microsoft, and are calling for an and to future Xbox endeavors... at least in terms of hardware. In terms of software, MS is in a position to make a killing, but it's their hardware that continues to drain them of cash.. and the whole purpose of the X360 was to change that, and instead it made things far worse for MS...
And after the last couple weeks, where investors saw Microsoft lose $25 billion dollars in stock value... MS investors are not in a good mood!
Getting back to the subject, I have no doubt PGR4 will be a fine game on a single DVD9, but I also am not foolish enough to believe that had they given the game more resources, it would have not only been just as good, but likely much better and bigger if they had the ability to put it on a HD DVD or Blu-ray discs.
