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Although consoles have improved greatly over the past ten or so years, one thing seems to have improved very little, and that is what our games come on. Originally it was cartridges for the likes of the NES,Master System, SNES,Mega Drive, N64 and a few others. The arival of the Playstation say the change to CD based consoles, the Dreamcast also uses this. Then with the arival of the PS2 we say the leap to using DVD's to store the game data.
I thought it would be a good idea for the big name companies, mainly Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega and some hardware companies to try and create a new type of storage device that would increase the capacity available to the programmers.
I heard nintendo had a new type of CD/DVD that they where going to use but I'm not sure if this is true. I also heard of new technology currently being tested in Japan, where one small disk (it is square shaped and is about 6cm long) has the storage capabilities of around 5 DVD's.
Console improve all the time so why not try and make the storage that the games improve too, this is what we need for the so called "next generation console". It won't happen with the PS2, GC or X-box but hopefully with the consoles after that.
With a CD you can hold at most 783 MB. The most you can store on a DVD is around 15.9 GB but thats only if it is double sided and double layered. IBM have been working on Holographic data storage, early devices have the storage capacity of around 125 GB and a transfer rate of around 40 MB. Eventually these devices could reach 1 TB (Terrabyte =1000GB) with a rate of 1GB a second.
Imagine a games machine that uses this technology. It obviously wouldn't be for a while but imagine what this could do, instead of buying games they could be downloaded straight to your console and stored on a small disk, games developers would have far more room to create games without having to worry about how much room is left on the disk. I think in the future the storage will greatly improve, maybe not like this for quite some time but it will gradualy get there.
I thought it would be a good idea for the big name companies, mainly Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega and some hardware companies to try and create a new type of storage device that would increase the capacity available to the programmers.
I heard nintendo had a new type of CD/DVD that they where going to use but I'm not sure if this is true. I also heard of new technology currently being tested in Japan, where one small disk (it is square shaped and is about 6cm long) has the storage capabilities of around 5 DVD's.
Console improve all the time so why not try and make the storage that the games improve too, this is what we need for the so called "next generation console". It won't happen with the PS2, GC or X-box but hopefully with the consoles after that.
With a CD you can hold at most 783 MB. The most you can store on a DVD is around 15.9 GB but thats only if it is double sided and double layered. IBM have been working on Holographic data storage, early devices have the storage capacity of around 125 GB and a transfer rate of around 40 MB. Eventually these devices could reach 1 TB (Terrabyte =1000GB) with a rate of 1GB a second.
Imagine a games machine that uses this technology. It obviously wouldn't be for a while but imagine what this could do, instead of buying games they could be downloaded straight to your console and stored on a small disk, games developers would have far more room to create games without having to worry about how much room is left on the disk. I think in the future the storage will greatly improve, maybe not like this for quite some time but it will gradualy get there.
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Why don't we just make computers that can hold isolinear rods with terraquads of data on them?
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!
i'm sure i'll have a terrabyte of mp3's soon. i download nuff tunes every day. The filtering of napster hasnt stoped the distribution of MP3's. There are loads of MP3 sharing programs around the web.
It would be used for more than one game. You could have many games on the one disk. Also with the larger amount of space available the way games are programmed could also change, better detail and how objects behave could be improved greatly.
a) What's the point? What kind of developer is going to code one terrabyte?
b) Who's won today?
b) Who's won today?
Philips have produced and tested working Tetrabyte (may be called different) discs. Apparently 100 times more capacity than a CD, they had them on show in Israel for some reason, last year sometime!!
it will be used mostly for PC's. but in time could get used with consoles. As for saying you would only use a 1/4 of it. Imagine having a hard disk unit you could download your games on to that and play them from that,it would give us smaller loading time, could even stamp out piracy as you cant really copy holograms so i dont see a way of piracy being a huge problem like it is now.
Very informative. But honestly, what's the point in having so much data storage, when you won't even use quarter of it!
The Gamecube, I think has the latest in technology memory-wise, something like: flash memory.
It's a shame someone has already won today, because yours could of been a good candidate.
The Gamecube, I think has the latest in technology memory-wise, something like: flash memory.
It's a shame someone has already won today, because yours could of been a good candidate.
Although consoles have improved greatly over the past ten or so years, one thing seems to have improved very little, and that is what our games come on. Originally it was cartridges for the likes of the NES,Master System, SNES,Mega Drive, N64 and a few others. The arival of the Playstation say the change to CD based consoles, the Dreamcast also uses this. Then with the arival of the PS2 we say the leap to using DVD's to store the game data.
I thought it would be a good idea for the big name companies, mainly Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega and some hardware companies to try and create a new type of storage device that would increase the capacity available to the programmers.
I heard nintendo had a new type of CD/DVD that they where going to use but I'm not sure if this is true. I also heard of new technology currently being tested in Japan, where one small disk (it is square shaped and is about 6cm long) has the storage capabilities of around 5 DVD's.
Console improve all the time so why not try and make the storage that the games improve too, this is what we need for the so called "next generation console". It won't happen with the PS2, GC or X-box but hopefully with the consoles after that.
With a CD you can hold at most 783 MB. The most you can store on a DVD is around 15.9 GB but thats only if it is double sided and double layered. IBM have been working on Holographic data storage, early devices have the storage capacity of around 125 GB and a transfer rate of around 40 MB. Eventually these devices could reach 1 TB (Terrabyte =1000GB) with a rate of 1GB a second.
Imagine a games machine that uses this technology. It obviously wouldn't be for a while but imagine what this could do, instead of buying games they could be downloaded straight to your console and stored on a small disk, games developers would have far more room to create games without having to worry about how much room is left on the disk. I think in the future the storage will greatly improve, maybe not like this for quite some time but it will gradualy get there.
I thought it would be a good idea for the big name companies, mainly Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega and some hardware companies to try and create a new type of storage device that would increase the capacity available to the programmers.
I heard nintendo had a new type of CD/DVD that they where going to use but I'm not sure if this is true. I also heard of new technology currently being tested in Japan, where one small disk (it is square shaped and is about 6cm long) has the storage capabilities of around 5 DVD's.
Console improve all the time so why not try and make the storage that the games improve too, this is what we need for the so called "next generation console". It won't happen with the PS2, GC or X-box but hopefully with the consoles after that.
With a CD you can hold at most 783 MB. The most you can store on a DVD is around 15.9 GB but thats only if it is double sided and double layered. IBM have been working on Holographic data storage, early devices have the storage capacity of around 125 GB and a transfer rate of around 40 MB. Eventually these devices could reach 1 TB (Terrabyte =1000GB) with a rate of 1GB a second.
Imagine a games machine that uses this technology. It obviously wouldn't be for a while but imagine what this could do, instead of buying games they could be downloaded straight to your console and stored on a small disk, games developers would have far more room to create games without having to worry about how much room is left on the disk. I think in the future the storage will greatly improve, maybe not like this for quite some time but it will gradualy get there.
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