LittleBigPlanet fills up Blu-ray disc

Probably not the case here. Fully uncompressed audio is a massive resource hog but plays linearly, so repeats aren't necessary when the actual game is likely small. Of course, why put some dude talking into an uncompressed format is beyond me.

I agree with Laughing Target.

Especially since you could compress it all and reburn it three-four times in order to optimize Blu Ray.

if the go! team track is still on there, then yes, the music is that important

Sony may also be doing this as an anti-piracy tactic. If you have a pseudo-slow connection, a 40gb download may be unappealing enough to get you to just buy the game (or not).

That's because anything bad people say about it always falls in line with "DURR LBP is stupid and overrated"

If you know what's good for you, you won't say anything remotely negative about BioShock either.

what i have yet to figure out is if people dislike the game so much and others strongly disagree why do they keep trying to "press the issue" as a radio host use to say.

Probably narration in multiple languages.

Narration PLUS video together take up a lot of room.

Plus all the textures and stuff on there (and there's freakin' loads of them, so that people can make a variaty of levels) take up a fair bit of room too.

I didn't even know HP was narrated by anyone other than Jim Dale. I shall have to listen to the Stephen Fry version and decide which one I like better.

If it's Stephen Fry narrating, then he can take up all the blu-ray disc needed for all I care, LoL. At least knowing he's on there ensure the game will be at least amusing, if anything else.

heh heh. You think people actually read the original article?
Of course not! The nice ity bity out of context chunks are what most people seem to read here.

He makes an interesting (and diplomatic) point when asked if it could be done on the Xbox 360. In fact I'm surprised Joystiq didn't run a sensational "LBP couldn't be done on the Xbox 360" article. Maybe they didn't read the interview either :)

I think a lot of people here actually read the linked articles. I say this because there seems to have been a distinct lack on completely outrageous statements recently.

Although, it could also be that people just learned to stop making completely outrageous statements.

d bag of x3f posted the lbp couldn't be done headline and article

Too bad you have to get it OFF the Blu-ray before it's useful.

What about load times? Will they just make a 5GB install and be done with it? If so, what difference does it make how big the Blu-ray disc is if you're copying stuff to the [smaller than a Blu-ray] hard drive?

You can put lipstick on a Shagittarius, but it's still a Shagittarius...

You don't understand developers very well, do you?

Ever see a database abstraction layer that was 2MB or a template engine that was 5MB? Developers don't care unless they feel they have to, and they gravitate towards features they don't need rather than the tool that just gets the job done -- just like home users.

Hey, let's not include a built-in syntax parser in our web browser. That's an incredibly useful feature for developers, but it's BLOAT! But, we won't use separate processes for each window, because having all your web apps crash at once like an old copy of MacOS is MUCH better than seeing a small hit in performance!

Just because someone is a professional developer doesn't mean they always have good priorities (and I'm not specifically targeting the LBP people, here).

Well I should hope that I do understand developers pretty well.. or else I need to see a therapist about my self-disconnect issues.

I get what you are saying but I'm pretty sure you are speaking from experience outside the realm of video game development given your examples.
That isn't to say we're immune to laziness but our priorities tend to be a bit different.

I find a lot of web and app developers tend to assume stability is just supposed to happen.. or in some cases fool themselves into thinking the issue is somehow the fault of the platform and needs to be addressed by someone else entirely.

Contrary to what one might assume with the works of EA's stable and the like floating around out there.. stability, performance, tightening all the nuts and bolts, is a very important process for us.

But hey.. if I'm missing something please tell me.
It really doesn't take much to sort out compression of assets unless we're trying to reinvent the compression wheel so if you can tell me why PS3 titles need it so badly I'd appreciate the heads up.

Well I should hope that I do understand developers pretty well.. or else I need to see a therapist about my self-disconnect issues.

I get what you are saying but I'm pretty sure you are speaking from experience outside the realm of video game development given your examples.
That isn't to say we're immune to laziness but our priorities tend to be a bit different.

I find a lot of web and app developers tend to assume stability is just supposed to happen.. or in some cases fool themselves into thinking the issue is somehow the fault of the platform and needs to be addressed by someone else entirely.

Contrary to what one might assume with the works of EA's stable and the like floating around out there.. stability, performance, tightening all the nuts and bolts, is a very important process for us.

But hey.. if I'm missing something please tell me.
It really doesn't take much to sort out compression of assets unless we're trying to reinvent the compression wheel so if you can tell me why PS3 titles need it so badly I'd appreciate the heads up.

Care to explain that? I've played it, and the character does what I ask him to do. In REAL TIME.