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Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:05PM FredFredrickson said

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Man... slow day at Joystiq.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:10PM (Unverified) said

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Hmm.. Huh? Wait! What? News post... oh... Sony... Back to sleep....

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:16PM LaughingTarget said

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Geeze, can't they just say "It will be released on disk"? Saying Blu-ray is a bit of a mouthfull.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 7:23PM TonyRockyHorror said

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bet it costs $10 more on Blu-Ray than download-only.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:20PM (Unverified) said

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I wonder if they'll get a lot of returns from uneducated customers who buy it and either can't play online or don't want to. I suppose they'll try to make it clear on the box somehow.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:20PM Mr Khan said

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it certainly seems a waste of Blu-ray's potential

If the game was slated for download, then it would be fairly small,

talk of wasted potential... (and consumer $, now they can charge 60$ for something that could realistically be streamed off the internet, if the game's online only)

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:25PM (Unverified) said

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Should we start polluting this post too or are we all settled now and free of the you know who?

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 6:42PM Kamizar said

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You know what they say about assume, it makes an ass of u and me...

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 7:04PM (Unverified) said

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First people say that online gaming is the entire future of the industry and next thing they're complaining that a game fully based on online gaming isn't worth full price. Strange world we live in.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 7:20PM oGMo said

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This seems fairly obvious. I was skeptical when people were saying this was a download; even from the movies, it's clear we're talking about tons of geometry and HD textures. That sort of thing will chew through gigabytes *compressed*; a download for this sort of thing would be ginormous. Even if it would fit on the 60G drive, the resource cost for letting everyone fetch it over the wire (plus the time it takes to do so) would be pretty high.

Consider the sizes of various demos available; the RR7 demo is like 300MB+ alone... for ONE LEVEL. Tekken5, which is last-gen rendered in higher resolution (low-geometry and smaller textures), is over 500MB.

Even level downloads will probably reuse geometry on the disc to conserve space.

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 7:22PM falcomadol said

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Ha, they'll probably put it online with a level editor, then do a best of.

And THAT is what we call 4D!

Posted: Mar 14th 2007 7:50PM (Unverified) said

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...and I didn't even read the article.

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 2:32AM SalarymanJ said

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You know what this game is. It is a remake of a game called return fire on playstation 1, except now you will play online against other people. A jeep, air unit,a nd tank? it is totally return fire. I hope the keep the classical music in there. I think this was also on 3do too. But either way it was a freakin sweet game. This one probably will be too

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 7:26AM (Unverified) said

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hows that $600 treating ya

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 7:57AM (Unverified) said

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quite well actually deaftly same way my 250 and 400 dollars are treating me well. (although technically speaking each system with corresponding accessories cos tme much more than that, but still, they're all servving the purpose i bought them for)

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 8:34AM sand0789 said

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JJ,
So...Taladega Nights was awesome I take it.

I kid. Seriously though, they just need to add some more mini-games to the disc, maybe arcade ones, to make it more worth it. That, or sell it for $20 or something. In the end, it will likely go for $40-50.

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 8:50AM DrXym said

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Why is download-only consider a bad thing. Want to know what the REIGNING multi-player FPS was for the PC for a good 3-4 years? Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Even today you have no trouble at all finding servers for it. Similarly America's Army also has a very large following.

In fact, being download only might be enormously better than Blu-Ray. The barrier to playing the game is less since it means you don't have to root around for your disc to play it.

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 9:56AM (Unverified) said

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I'd prefer download only, it just makes sense. You could look at it on thier end and say "well what about people with slow internet connections or no internet connection at all" but then again it's Multiplayer only so really whats the point of purchasing it unless you're rocking 3 or 5 or 10 meg wi-fi.

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 10:58AM (Unverified) said

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If online only means it should be cheaper than $50, then Battlefield series should be priced at $40 and lower as well.

Posted: Mar 15th 2007 11:50AM (Unverified) said

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so this is the big sony E3 promise of motion control and blu-ray? incomplete games?

how many times does your bullshit need to be called sony?


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Posted: Mar 15th 2007 1:47PM (Unverified) said

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@sheppy

where are you????

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