Carmack: Rage to look worse on 360 if limited to two DVDs

by Christopher Grant on Aug 1st 2008 9:38AM

Fanboys, start your engines! According to id Software's resident genius John Carmack, the developer's upcoming title Rage could actually look worse on Xbox 360 "due to the compression needed to fit the game's assets on two DVDs," reports Shacknews.

Evidently royalty fees associated with a third disc would make the project financially unviable, so Carmack's looking to Microsoft to bite the bullet and rescind the fee or suffer the consequences (read: a multiplatform AAA title that looks worse on 360). Perhaps, unsurpringly considering the large size of the game's texture files, Carmack doesn't think that Doom 4 or Rage will make their way to digital distribution anytime soon.

[Thanks, Anonim]

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Tags: EA, Electronic-Arts, id-Software, John-Carmack, PS3, Rage, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (154)

When they compare the amount of money they will potentially lose to the possibility of having side-by-sides with the Blu-Ray PS3 version looking assy...I'm going to guess that Microsoft will suck it up and work out a deal to allow the 3 DVD version without the crazy fees.

3 or 4 dvd's??? is there a limit, why only 2?

game doesnt look that great to even begin with.

just a hype for the ps3 machine.

As games become more and more extensive, there's going to be a problem with putting those games on regular dvd's. And that is what is starting to happen.