Apparently this article was badly reported and may not be entirely accurate. Taken that aside, as they have already split the game to 2 discs why not 3 or 4 let the 360 owners worry about disc swapping and provide the game as you intended to the other formats.
The data issue is a problem though. Either because of multiple discs, file swapping or extended game load times. So I do not think this is cut and dry.
In my opinion you give somebody a 25gb disc they fill it and not necessarily with good things also you take away the limitations which leads to no attempt to optimise. Not really a bad thing just human nature and not all developers will be so cavalier.
The single biggest problem the 360 has in my opinion is the Hard disk. They are simply in the original format (althought getting bigger) to small and what is worse to expensive to upgrade or replace. If the 360 had access to larger of the shelf drives this would in my opinion alleviate a lot of the perceived advantage of the Blu Ray disc.
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The data issue is a problem though. Either because of multiple discs, file swapping or extended game load times. So I do not think this is cut and dry.
In my opinion you give somebody a 25gb disc they fill it and not necessarily with good things also you take away the limitations which leads to no attempt to optimise. Not really a bad thing just human nature and not all developers will be so cavalier.
The single biggest problem the 360 has in my opinion is the Hard disk. They are simply in the original format (althought getting bigger) to small and what is worse to expensive to upgrade or replace. If the 360 had access to larger of the shelf drives this would in my opinion alleviate a lot of the perceived advantage of the Blu Ray disc.