Confirmed: Final Fantasy XIII Demo Consumes 5.09GB of Space

[PS3 News]

A http://pocketnews.cocolog-nifty.com/pkns/2009/04/bdvii-0efc.html has done a technical analysis of both Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, and the Final Fantasy XIII Trial Edition.

To quote: The Blu-Ray movie comes in at about 30GB due to a video bitrate of 27.8Mbps, and audio bitrate of about 1.9Mbps.

The demo however comes in at a huge 5.09GB (including 256MB of PS3 Update Data), which is very worrying, especially for Xbox 360 owners as the demo only has about an hour of gameplay.

Further analysis of the files in the demo show that there are two big movie files, one of which is 2.04GB (z016_ps3.wmp), and the second is 2.37GB (z000_ps3.wmp). This means that 4.41GB of the demo is just video.

Final Fantasy games are known for having a lot very high quality CG rendered movies, this means that the Xbox 360 version of the game will have to have lower quality video. Or another option is to take the route of Lost Odyssey, which had only one or two rendered movies, and the rest were in-engine. Despite this, Lost Odyssey still ended up using about 27GB of data due to repetition of textures, character models, and environment models.

So does this mean that the Xbox 360 will be getting a worse version of the game? Or does it mean that the PS3 version of the game will be downgraded in order to accommodate the Xbox 360 version?


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[Rocky5]

There is no need for the videos to be that big so the 360 will have smaller ones with the same quality, also the 360 can stream data faster than the PS3 this is why most games install data onto the HDD because blueray is to slow for streaming so the 360 will be fine probably will have more than 2 discs but hey that's nothing to worry about.

[hellospaceboy]

Originally Posted by Rocky5 There is no need for the videos to be that big so the 360 will have smaller ones with the same quality

The video quality is still going to suffer if the videos for the 360 version are smaller in size, and its simple logic that there just isnt got to be as many on the xbox 360 as on the ps3, otherwise you will have to swap the 360 disc for every 2 or 3 long cgi videos.

Originally Posted by Rocky5 probably will have more than 2 discs but hey that's nothing to worry about.

If they include the cgi, it will be a lot lot more than 2 discs, 6 plus at least, and if they shorten the cgi or lower the quality, and delete some cutscenes that remain "exclusive" to the ps3, then it will still be around 4 discs.

[otarumx]

Sure, the videos can be 1080p for the PS3 and 720p or 480p on the 360 that can then be upscaled, that way they will save some disk space but the quality will be degraded in the eyes of the HD crowd or they can do what Sega did with the Saturn and have a big ugly black frame around the video to make it smaller but the same quality.

Data streaming is no big deal since most textures can be stored on PS3s HDD and code doesn't take that much space on disk.

The most likely scenario is that all video will be 720p for both consoles on the American and European version while it may be 1080p for the japanese one.

Even then I guess FFXIII on Xbox 360 will be at least 3 DVDs in line with other RPG releases on the console.

However I do expect some hiccups on the 360 version mostly with draw distance, textures and shadows since both consoles handle them differently but nothing major.

We might really get the same quality versions on both consoles but my guess is that they won't be as flashy and good looking as Killzone 2 in the graphics department in order to be able to keep the quality on par on both consoles.

[cloud57]

I want to know what you think about the demo that it will take time before coming to the PSN me because I did'nt want to wait this will be possible to find a demo of this game on PC and the used on the ps3?

[nunracer]

downgraded in order to accommodate the Xbox 360 version?

are you kidding?

You can install the whole game on 360 hdd nowadays..

[ernvil]

Originally Posted by nunracer downgraded in order to accommodate the Xbox 360 version? are you kidding? You can install the whole game on 360 hdd nowadays..

That's if your xbox360 has a hdd

[hellospaceboy]

Originally Posted by nunracer downgraded in order to accommodate the Xbox 360 version? are you kidding? You can install the whole game on 360 hdd nowadays..

It would be really funny to see "Requires 8GB - 30GB (or more, depending on number of discs) HDD installation space" on back of the Xbox 360 game cover. Square Enix aren't going to do something as stupid as that, just to save disc swapping and quality because what will people with an arcade do.

Last edited by hellospaceboy; 04-17-2009 at 04:16 AM.

[GZA1984]

* The demo should be played with the understanding that this is FF13 as it was in 2008. The game has move forwards much since then, and the developers are now in the ‘Final Stretch’ of many aspects of development.

* The demo uses around 50% of the PS3’s power - the final version will use close to or the full 100%.

This only means one thing: It can only get worse for the 360 version.
Time will tell. Maybe they'll just release the PS3 version earlier anyway in the rest of the world.

[cloud57]

S-E give a new HDD with FF13