Blu-ray pushes next-gen envelope from 25GB to 50GB

Are we getting ahead of ourselves here? Are we always pushing the envelope when it comes to games? And now, at the rate things are going, we could expect 50GB games in our Blu-ray discs.

GamesIndustry.biz had a little sit-down with Phil Harrison, and he says that the game developers (as far as the launch titles are concerned) are already “getting up close” to the 25GB limit of the Blu-ray. He says that by next year, they’d have to raise the proverbial bar by releasing 50GB discs.

Harrison further states that the 50GB push has nothing to do with movies and says that “DVD is not sufficient capacity to power the kind of data consumption, or to feed the data consumption needs of Cell and RSX – just purely as a gameplay device, we need Blu-Ray to supply the kind of data that PS3 games use.”

He says that the expansion of the disc is for higher quality movie sequences within games. And 50GB would just be around enough to contain all that 1080p movies, 7.1 audio, speech, hi-res textures, animations… All of which that makes us have the “next-gen” experience.

Of course, despite this, Harrison also mentions that not all games will require the 50GB capacity. Some won’t even fill up the 25GB. Wherever this is leading us, the fact is that the next-gen just got next-gen-er.

Are we getting ahead of ourselves here? Are we always pushing the envelope when it comes to games? And now, at the rate things are going, we could expect 50GB games in our Blu-ray discs.

GamesIndustry.biz had a little sit-down with Phil Harrison, and he says that the game developers (as far as the launch titles are concerned) are already “getting up close” to the 25GB limit of the Blu-ray. He says that by next year, they’d have to raise the proverbial bar by releasing 50GB discs.

Harrison further states that the 50GB push has nothing to do with movies and says that “DVD is not sufficient capacity to power the kind of data consumption, or to feed the data consumption needs of Cell and RSX – just purely as a gameplay device, we need Blu-Ray to supply the kind of data that PS3 games use.”

He says that the expansion of the disc is for higher quality movie sequences within games. And 50GB would just be around enough to contain all that 1080p movies, 7.1 audio, speech, hi-res textures, animations… All of which that makes us have the “next-gen” experience.

Of course, despite this, Harrison also mentions that not all games will require the 50GB capacity. Some won’t even fill up the 25GB. Wherever this is leading us, the fact is that the next-gen just got next-gen-er.