360 DVD causing issues for Assassin’s Creed
Ubisoft’s Montreal team is currently hard at work on the medieval action adventure Assassin’s Creed, and although their showings at various events have so far been stellar, it appears it’s not all moonlight and roses developing the hugely anticipated title for its expected platforms, namely Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s Playstation 3.
In a Pro-G interview, creative director Patrice Desilets expressed his concerns with regard to developing Assassin’s Creed for the Xbox 360 and PS3. For the former he revealed that the development team is having a hard time fitting all of the game’s content onto a single DVD, which is not surprising given the title’s high visual fidelty and free-roaming gameplay. On the other hand, it’s Playstation 3’s memory system that is also giving the team headaches, as it operates in a considerably different way than the 360’s.
Both have their own challenges. Right now we have a big challenge on the 360 to make it fit on a DVD, to put five languages, to put all the data on eight gigs. On the Blu-ray side we’re really good, but then the memory is quite different. How we handle memory is really different between the two machines and we’re struggling right now on the PS3. But we have people who are really dedicated and we’re having help from Microsoft on one side and Sony on the other side to have the same quality on both systems. It really depends on the week basically as to who’s best.
He also assured that the two versions would be equally good:
The PS3 version is as good as the 360 version. We’ve been showing the PS3 version at E3 this year, but we’ve done a lot of events and it’s just easier for us and for people from the press to have a 360. But the versions are the same, basically.
Luckily for the Montreal development studio, there’s still a month left to iron out the remaining issues and add that much needed polish. We’ll be able to try out the game for ourselves in the week of November 13 when Assassin’s Creed becomes available at retail.
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well guess they will have to make 2 discs. what a pitty. or maybe some download to make up the difference
let the shennanigans begin:
PS3 > 360.
No u.
On subject, i’ve seen a vid they’ve released recently just now, and it looked glitchy still :S Hope thats sorted.
Your face looks glitchy. >=[
constructive and insightful….
*rolls eyes*
I guess you lost your sense of fun with your sense of ethics, huh?
I lol’d again.
Thats like 3 out of 4 comments again that made me lol (literally too)
Equal
I don’t understand why devolopers areso anti multi-discs nowadays
360 has media storage limitations and PS3 has system memory limitations, what’s the news again?
lol, for reelz
They’ve said this about several games, including most recently PGR4. But they’ll make it fit on one disc just like every other game. Don’t worry about it.
What I don’t get is computer games. I am pretty sure that crysis will be on one disc and not a bluray of hd-dvd disc.
It’s called compression. That’s why you need to UNINSTALL games. Crysis requires something like 16Gb of free HDD space.
I smell a delay on release date.
Here’s what I don’t get: why do I need 5 languages? Cut one out. Problem solved.
Exactly…I don’t know about you guys, but just put English and I will be good to go!
Make the languages DLC lol.
800 points each
Fine by me…just make english the Language shipped with the game
lol
I don’t think it’s necessary to have all 5 languages on the discs for every country…it’d be nice to have them be downloadable for those that want it
Yeah frogs, drop the french!
Yeah, french is for suckers
Why not just regionalise the release. They don’t need to put 8 languages on one disc!
I can’t see why they need 5 languages on the disk… I mean the most you would probably need per country is 2.
English for the UK, French/Englsh for Canada, Spanish/English for the US etc etc etc…
Would probably cost more to run the disks that way BUT… why try to cram 5 onto one disk when realisticly you only need 2 per country.
you need the spanish for canada too, they heading up there in droves for free healthcare lmao! they can have them!
or just make it the first hd dvd game then id have a good enough reason to buy a hd dvd player and it would force ms to integrate a hd dvd drive in the next 360 lol
and it would be boycotted by 10m 360 owners who don’t want to have to fork out for a HD-DVD player - ESPECIALLY when they the majority don’t even have HDTV’s.
i was joking, but it could easily wor, have games on HD DVD and for those withought it just slit it to multi discs.
I’d rather play multi-disk, even though I have the HD-DVD Add-on. Heard of such things as USB latency?
the hd-dvd drive for the 360 is not capable of playing games as it is connected via USB and isn’t designed for transferring huge amounts of game data
The Orange Box fit 5 different games onto one disc…i dont see how its that much more difficult for Assasins Creed?
3 of them are ‘old’ compared to AC. Team Fortress is not exactly graphic intensive, and Portal is not a full retail game.
But from what I hear, Team Fortress 2 is equal to the FUN you’d get out of one retail game.
“Team Fortress 2 is equal to the FUN you’d get out of one retail game.”
yes it is!!!
i want my game in Swahili dammit… add another language to it… =p
u just got to be kidding, subtitle the shit… y should i have to deal with english subtitles playing jap games, huh? someone slap him…
its quite funny everyone notices that the dvd is being an issue… but no one iscommenting on the bigger issue
you can add a second dvd if realy needed which MS will help them that it isnt….. but theirs a work around
Now on the other hand the ps3 has MEMORY issues something that can’t exactly be augmented ever
I agree. This game, while free-roaming, seems as if it’s split up into multiple roamed cities. It has no online multiplayer (confirmed anyway, as far as I know) so splitting it into two disks shouldn’t be that huge of an issue.
the memory problems have more to do with the developers ane the coding not the hardware itself on the ps3. do some research
No, the memory is a defined limit. You can’t bypass it. Disk space limitations can be bypassed easily with a second disk. You can’t just insert more memory. This isn’t the N64. The 360 has more dynamic/available memory than the PS3. The PS3 has more storage capacity than the 360.
But yes, nice name, troll. do your research
idiots, 5 languages are the major pal languages thats why europe gets fucked alot of the time with release ates, translation takes a fucking long time
2 discs, 6 discs, whatever. Just give me the game!
It would be cool on two disks, seem like your getting more for your dough!!! Like when you buy special edition films with multiple disks, just seems more of a package, especially for a big title like Assassins Creed. I would like two disks.
I think it’s silly that they are calling this an issue for the 360. There is no reason that they couldn’t throw a second disc in. Think of all the stuff they could put in that they already scrapped because of space. They’d have a whole new set of 9 gig or whatever. It should be a no-brainer.
Whoops, hit post to early. I know my first multi-disc game was Final Fantasy VII… and that’s one of the best games I’ve ever played. I don’t see it as ay kind of curse or anything like that.
I’m planning on buying a FALCON xbox360 this winter and this game is just what i’m looking for because Damascus,which is one of the cities in the game,is where I’ve lived all my life.In addition,I really like the arabic names of the characters(each name has a real meaning)