The FUTURE of gaming - 1.6 TB on ONE DISC!!

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

The disc can hold up to 1.6 TB, and does it by adding 4-5 layers with different color wavelengths on the same spot. It's 5 years off and Samsung already signed a deal with the inventors, but I can easily see this as something to pop up on PS5 and Xbox 4. Hardrives today get to about 2 TB, but with a disc like this, there will honestly be no concern whatsoever about disc space! The only thing to look at is the cost: Blu-Ray hasn't been extremely successful but now we have portable Blu-Ray players and they're as cheap as $150, so they're starting to chip into the market share, but this is definitely the future since it will be a long time before people will run out of space for a movie or game. Can you say *8000x5000p resolution* (something in that range), if future TVs can even support that?

What the hell would they use all that space for?

it wont work for gaming. Too much space. It would take years to develop one game that could fill up the disc. Plus the consoles would probably cost a grand or so.

Wow, with all that space imagine how huge a gameworld you could make.

What the hell would they use all that space for?

Rob-Belmont

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Movie with interactive cutscenes.

What the hell would they use all that space for?

Rob-Belmont

Storing every single texture in the game in every single colour in the visible spectrum of light, and even some of the colours we can't see.

It'll be great.

We won't see anything like this used for gaming for a long time

Wow, with all that space imagine how huge a gameworld you could make.

stepat201

Yeah... HDD's today get 1-2TB's. Five years from now they'll probably be running 25-50TB's. If not 100TB.

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What the hell would they use all that space for?

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Movie with interactive cutscenes.

[QUOTE="Rob-Belmont"]

What the hell would they use all that space for?

MetroidPrimePwn

Storing every single texture in the game in every single colour in the visible spectrum of light, and even some of the colours we can't see.

It'll be great.

There a reason why we have hardrives and pcs.

Despite what Blu-ray advocates may think; storage is not the most important factor in games.

I don't understand the obsession with storage capacity, storage is one of those things which you either have enough of or you don't, vastly more storage doesn't change much.

Storage is just the enabler for more content, not the cause.

We won't see anything like this used for gaming for a long time

thelastguy

thats what they said about dvd's when they started coming out, didn't take long for those to get filled quick.

[QUOTE="Rob-Belmont"]

What the hell would they use all that space for?

MetroidPrimePwn

Storing every single texture in the game in every single colour in the visible spectrum of light, and even some of the colours we can't see.

It'll be great.

I don't think you realize how time-consuming it is to create textures for any one game. :|

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We won't see anything like this used for gaming for a long time

z4twenny

thats what they said about dvd's when they started coming out, didn't take long for those to get filled quick.

I doubt we will see games at a 100GB by the end of next gen. It would just be pointless

Blu-Ray hasn't been extremely successfull?.Stoner-Pimp

Blu-Ray pwnt. I call this: Rainbow-Ray.

I dare a game devloper to make a good use of that much space and not have any glitches in the game

I dare a game devloper to make a good use of that much space and not have any glitches in the game

druggyjoe3000

I dare a game devloper to make a good use of that much space and not have any glitches in the game

druggyjoe3000

What does glitches have to do with space?

Blu-Ray still has lots of life left in it. So far the only real use of the space with games has been uncompressed sound which most (like 99%) people can't tell the difference from a 320kbps Mp3 anyway.

I don't think you realize how time-consuming it is to create textures for any one game. :|

Shad0ki11

I don't think you realize that I was joking :|

Despite what Blu-ray advocates may think; storage is not the most important factor in games.

I don't understand the obsession with storage capacity, storage is one of those things which you either have enough of or you don't, vastly more storage doesn't change much.

Storage is just the enabler for more content, not the cause.

AnnoyedDragon

I'm an advocate for BluRay, and I certainly don't think storage is the most important part of games. Like you said yourself, storage is the enabler for more content.

I was amazed what the advent of cd-rom games meant for the industry. Both the size of games and the manner of their presentation were altered forever. When I got my PS2 I was very happy to have the size increase in the physical format. It didn't matter to me that many launch titles still shipped on cd-roms. I believed that as the generation matured we would see more and more need for the increased space DVD afforded, and there were a good number of last gen titles that were literally crammed onto DVD towards the end.

For this generation, I like the idea that as games continue to increase in size, a new physical media affords them room to grow. There are other options of course. Disc swapping can work for some games. Installs to a HDD can work for literally any title, if allowed. But games will always get bigger over time. They just do.

DISCs are NOT the future of gaming.

Blu-ray will come and go.

Downloadable and Streaming media is the future, for games, movies and of course music.

1 TB flash media will be here faster than you think and it will be on your ipod, ps4, PC, Mac, etc...

Remember there's only so much that the human eye can resolve. Beyond a certain resolution it's pointless since it's greater than you're eye can resolve.

Sorry but they already announced 1TB bluray disks that work on all bluray players a year ago. Bottom line? Bluray haters, (aka X-Box 360 lovers) are in for many years of fail.

What the hell would they use all that space for?

Rob-Belmont

i would still prefer bandwidth getting to the point where we can fully embrace cloud computing in all the ways it could benefit us.

google it :)

That is way to much space.Dr_Snood

What the hell would they use all that space for?

Rob-Belmont

the dirty pics what come with the game!

Normal consumers will never need more than 1080p on their < 65" TVs. Consequently, I don't see a general need for more than Blu-Ray among those who like to collect physical discs.

1.6 TB is huge for a game even for 5 years down the line

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/

The disc can hold up to 1.6 TB, and does it by adding 4-5 layers with different color wavelengths on the same spot. It's 5 years off and Samsung already signed a deal with the inventors, but I can easily see this as something to pop up on PS5 and Xbox 4. Hardrives today get to about 2 TB, but with a disc like this, there will honestly be no concern whatsoever about disc space! The only thing to look at is the cost: Blu-Ray hasn't been extremely successful but now we have portable Blu-Ray players and they're as cheap as $150, so they're starting to chip into the market share, but this is definitely the future since it will be a long time before people will run out of space for a movie or game. Can you say *8000x5000p resolution* (something in that range), if future TVs can even support that?

RyuHayabusaX

YEAH, thats awsome bro, it will be perfect when the ps17 comes out

Pointless 8.54GB on a dual layer disc is plenty so i don't see the need for this hell even Blu-ray is pushing it at 50GB.TR800

i heard forza 3 was shipping on 2 dvddouble-r

Multiple disks, the horror, how will people cope with something that has been around since consoles began using optical disks?