Blu-ray Movie and PS3 Game Combo Discs Possible This Year
One of the key selling points of the PlayStation 3 is it's upgradeable Blu-ray player, which up until now has kept its game and movie playing duties separate, however John Koller, Sony's Director of Hardware has kindly given us a sneak preview of the company's plans to bring these two areas closer together in an unexpected, but highly logical way.
The idea is this - the PS3 can play Blu-ray discs with a capacity of 50GB and an average game fills between 30 and 40GB, leaving a considerable amount of space unused. New hybrid discs would incorporate the game as usual but also provide access to a feature length Blu-ray movie on the disc too, plus the opportunity to transfer that movie across to a PlayStation Portable.
Obviously, this would work best with a licensed game being paired with its movie partner - think Wall-E and the Dark Knight along with their respective games. However it needn't stop there, as this could be used with other licenses too, such as sporting titles including season reviews or in the case of motorsport games, race replays - how about GT5 coming with classic Nurburgring, Monte Carlo and Laguna Seca races?
The Videobusiness article says Koller wouldn't comment on who they were working with in order to bring us these combo discs, but he was confident we would see several releases by the end of 2009 and added 'Movies help sell hardware'.
hey this should be sweet, is it out yet?
Posted by: Energy efficiency | May 12, 2011 at 05:39 AM