How the Xbox 720 could Outdo "Blu-ray"

[Ze-Tomb]

Ok, I found this and News Bot doesn't wanna tlak about it, so prepare for a wall of text.

So you thought the 50GB capacity of Blu-ray was pretty impressive? Well, in 2007 it most certainly was but darn it if the crazy world of media storage doesn’t race along at a Speedy Gonzales rate. Here we are only two years after the PS3 hit Aussie shores alongside Sony’s spirited push of the Blu-Ray format and already 50GB is looking piss weak. Well it does in the face of an announcement from scientists at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne anyway, who have revealed a technique which enables 12TBs of storage capacity on a DVD.

That’s 240 times the capacity of Blu-ray… you could effectively fit every single PS3 game out there on the one disc.

We will not get into the specific technical jargon of the new ‘5th dimension’ storage system because we are still working on that nanotechnology degree, but here is what a poindextor told us was happening. By utilizing super-nano powers scientists are polarising the light used to layer data which opens up a whole new spatial dimension for storage and that freaky new dimension can be rotated and written on in a 360 degree plane, thus massively improving capacity.

No less interesting than this brain buckling announcement was a finer point revealing that Samsung has signed an agreement with the technology’s creators looking towards a commercial release of the product by 2014. Ok, so far so good, yeah?

<start speculation, to the extreme>

DVD in its current format will not cut it in the next-generation of gaming. With top-end games already seeping over the edges of DVDs paltry 8GB of storage space, it’s a sure-bet that games are simply going to need more space going forward. PlayStation has Blu-ray, but Microsoft has nothing. They had HD-DVD, but it was not in-built on the Xbox 360 and for a lot of reasons, it spectacularly died in the arse.

What will Microsoft do for the Xbox 720? This generation simply hasn’t evolved quickly enough and, on a global scale, broadband internet is still too uncouth to have us believe that the next run of consoles will ditch box copy gaming in place of digital downloads only. So Microsoft is either going to have to go to Blu-ray, or come up with something new. Something like a 12TB DVD – a Super DVD for want of a better term.

So what is the Samsung/Microsoft link? Glad you asked, To bring this thought pattern around full circle, Samsung and Microsoft have been in bed together for a while now. They teamed up at the start of this generation in order to ship TVs alongside Xbox 360s. They’ve entered into cross-licensing patent agreements, have helped each other out with Windows Vista and perhaps more pertinent, Samsung was one of the main contributors of DVD drives for the current Xbox 360.

Admittedly Sony and Samsung have a relationship too, but it is more or less restricted to TV technology and most certainly does not involve the PlayStation brand.

It’s early days yet, but perhaps Microsoft has just found its window of opportunity to move forward on the Xbox 720 without the corporate shame involved with jumping on the Blu-ray bandwagon. While, circa 2009, it is hard to imagine how you’d fill 12TB of space in relation to a video game (nor how long the bloody load times would be) a stripped back version of this technology would still one-up the PlayStation 3 in the two company’s endless competition to see just who has the biggest dick.

<end rampant speculation>

So what do you think? Have we just had a sniff of the future? Whatever happens, as gamers we can only hope that the two companies can settle on the one format so there can be less development resources wasted upon making dual platform games, multi-format compatible.

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Orginally posted on http://www.gameplayer.com.au/

Looks like Sony will have fun trying to advance more than Microsoft.
There you all go & enjoy, 711, if News Bot picks this up within next hour, I'm sorry.

[Angel of Death]

These people have been trying to push that concept for 3 years now. It just isn't working, it's much too soon for ANOTHER format war, plus, the cost of the technology needs to be feasible and the tech we're talking about here are a series of gold nano tubes. I'd like to not pay for that, thanks.

[Skateboard T]

earliest this technology will come to consumer use is at least 5 years!

[Lord Crusher]

I heard about this today from a friend. Would be good if they could release it now before cloud servers are properly released. Otherwise thats a hell of a lot of time wasted imo.

[Ze-Tomb]

Originally Posted by Angel of Death

These people have been trying to push that concept for 3 years now. It just isn't working, it's much too soon for ANOTHER format war, plus, the cost of the technology needs to be feasible and the tech we're talking about here are a series of gold nano tubes. I'd like to not pay for that, thanks.

Yeah, it would be very exspensive, but very useful imo. Yeah, it is too soon for a format war, but start now, cheaper later.

Originally Posted by Skateboard T

earliest this technology will come to consumer use is at least 5 years!

Hehe, yeah, and by then we'll be using flying cars and talking with our minds.

Originally Posted by Lord Crusher

I heard about this today from a friend. Would be good if they could release it now before cloud servers are properly released. Otherwise thats a hell of a lot of time wasted imo.

I agree, but cloud servers do require a internet connection if I'm not mistaken.