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Sony PS3 Now Supports Pioneer 400GB Blu-ray Discs

Sony PS3 Now Supports Pioneer 400GB Blu-ray Discs

By: Peter Chubb | December 3, 2008 | 10 Comments

We reported in a post yesterday that Pioneer were working on a 400GB Blu-ray disc, and that it will be compatible with all Blu-rays players. We forgot to mention that it will also work on your Sony PS3, makes sense as Sony are the ones who developed the Blu-ray format.

Pioneer showed the world the new 16-layer Blu-ray discs earlier this year, but the new discs will not likely be consumer ready until 2010, not that far off then. The idea of having a disc that could hold so much data certainly gets us thinking of the possibilities.

The new 400GB Blu-ray will hold up to 40x the amount of data of an Xbox 360 game, just think what kind of games will be made available for the Sony PlayStation 3 in the future. Pioneer is also launching a 1TB version in 2013.

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  • Slippy Sloppy

    “just think what kind of games will be made available for the Sony PlayStation 3 in the future”

    Wow, the future – it’ll be so good, people will fly around in cars and live in sky cities.

    They’re not really making much use of the space they’ve got now.

  • http://www.freewebs,com/experiencesudoku CiscoRucinski

    @Slippy Sloppy

    so are you saying that when you were crapping in your dipper crying for food and your mom, that you should have amounted to nothing later in life? It is a progression. Of course the space of Blu-ray discs aren’t being used to its fullest, just like the PS3 capabilities aren’t yet. It is still in their infant stages of their life cycle. An exception to this was Metal Gear Solid 4, which the developers needed to compress data just to fit in everything.

    Think out side of the box

  • Slippy Sloppy

    @CiscoRucinski

    Eh?

    Stop talking from out of your box.

  • KC

    Wow, you guys really don’t understand the scope of this. HD video files can already be found all over the web. Most range from 4-8gb, so you do the math, but imagine having one disk with over 40 “video files” on it. We would no longer be limited by FAT32 external drives restriction on files over 4gb. As for retail, movie studios will be able to fit entire Trilogies on one disk. Imagine having the Matrix, spiderman, or Lord of the Rings trilogies all on one disc. Even game developers will be able to come out with discs that contain an entire series. Think God of War I, II & III all on one disc.

  • Slippy Sloppy

    Good point, films on one disc would be great, especially as we’re already seeing 2 disc editions of many films. I do think though that buy the time developers can afford to make use of the new size discs for one game we’ll be heading into the next generation of consoles. I might be wrong and it’ll be great if I am.

  • VinTheDean

    Slippy Sloppy

    Your are right about this new disk being useful in the next consoles (PS4). The main sticking poing (I think at least) with the Blu-Ray dics and the PS3 is the read time.

    If they can increase the read speed and have more internal memory (4GB) then it would really help them out.

    I mean right now you can get 4GB for like $50. Imaging how much cheaper it would in like 4 years when the PS4 is released. It would cheap enough for consoles to have at least 4GB.

    The mix of increase read speed, more memory, and higher volume media would be a developers dream.

  • GEeezzyyyyyy

    All i have to say is “WOW”.CANT wait for the new games.

  • GamerFeed

    “An exception to this was Metal Gear Solid 4, which the developers needed to compress data just to fit in everything.”

    Actually that’s not correct. MGS4 single player was 30GB and the online component was around 3GB. That’s about 33GB data on a 50GB disc.

    Any compression used would have been used for performance purposes. The reason some think it was compressed to fit is because Kojima complained about not having enough space on Blu-ray, but it’s clear now he was talking about the standard Blu-ray disc for most PS3 games, which is 25GB, not the 50GB disc which it was released on.

    Hence 400GB would be of more interest and benefit to movies than to new games on the PS3, except as suggested by KC, to store whole game series on.

  • Slippy Sloppy

    Also MGS4 was packed with cutscenes and not game.

  • person127123

    reason: not many ps3 games are ps3 explusive because of that the games have to be made smaller beecasue of the 360s not so awsome cds thus leaving the ps3 cds practicaly half emty while the 360 cd is about to burst with data