DVDs for PC gaming (Or holy crap...PC games are getting big!)

[Lazybones]

I imagine PC DVD-ROM releases will become "standard" right as Blu-Ray drives start becoming an option for early adopters. I have a DVD-ROM in my computer right now, and if I'd gotten it 6 months later, I probably would have had a DVD-writer instead. Someone commented how cheap DVD drives have gotten, and given that gamers tend to have machines that are ahead of the update curve of most PCs, I think we'll see demand rise as the size of games continues to explode. Heck, I was cleaning out my hard drive to make space for some new stuff the other day, and I saw that I had maybe 20 games from a few years back still there with a total HD footprint of maybe 1 gig... while UT2004 was taking up 5 1/2 by itself.

 

[Li Shenron]

I remember when in high school I first saw a CG on CD, it was Theme Park although the CD was mostly empty . Someone commented that there will never be a game so big that it would have filled an entire CD!

My biggest CG was Baldur's Gate in 5 CDs, but then the games became slimmer, maybe because mp3 coding reduced the space for audio?

Anyway, moving to DVD is a good idea, at least because of the less space, and a DVD reader for PC nowadays costs quite as much as a CD reader.

Instead I can only imagine what kind of game would fit onto this : http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/wlenng/FMD.htm

 

[Granger44]

Another reason DVDs haven't become super popular is that the idea of downloading full games and games-on-demand has been growing. And really, a games-on-demand thing isn't a bad deal, though there is something nice about having a physical copy of the game.

 

[DarQuing]

I bought the DVD version of Sims 2 for my wife and the DVD version of Far Cry for myself.

A friend of mine bought the DVD version of Sims2 and had problems installing it, so she went to the Wal-Mart where she bought it and exchanged it for the CD version.