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[Doom_Bringer]

According to rumors both Sony and Microsoft won't have a HDD in their next-gen box because of costs issues. Well my question is will these consoles be able to handle games like Battlefield 1942/BF Vietnam or Far Cry ?

Will Blu Ray and HDVD be able emulate a hard drive? Will “long range” (Far Cry/BF games) gameplay be possible or will it be like “The End” boss fight in MGS3 (large maps broken into chunks)?!

edit:
I am only talking about large map sizes, this thread has nothing to do with graphical capablilities of the next gen systems.

 

[sykoex]

Well GTA SA is big isn't it?

 

[Guns N' Poops]

They'll be powerful enough to stream huge areas without loading times, much bigger than the Battlefield maps. And especially Blu-Ray is going to have enough place for the needed textures.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

Well GTA SA is big isn't it?

It's big and it has a lot of problems! Try sniping pedestrians from a high rise building...

Game has too much pop ups etc.

 

[Guns N' Poops]

That's a matter of hardware power, not the space. The next gen consoles will allow a bigger draw distance with less pop-up in streaming games.

 

[IJoel]

That's a matter of hardware RAM, not the media space. The next gen consoles will allow a bigger draw distance with less pop-up in streaming games.

little tweak...

That said, I wonder if they're even thinking about MMO games.

 

[The End]

considering the amazing bus speeds we're talking about, it would be entirely possible to mask a small loading time with a "bringing the scope up to the eye" animation.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

little tweak...

That said, I wonder if they're even thinking about MMO games.

I have never played a MMO so I don't know how they work. But I think a HDD is definitely a requirement for them.

 

[jedimike]

Why do people assume that a hard disk drive is the only way a dev can stream data? There are other ways to get the same results.

 

[lexi]

Battlefield doesn't load map data from the HDD while playing, it's streamed from RAM.