Fortunately no western developer is dumb enough to think its fans want to watch 4-5 hours of pre-rendered cut scenes. That's pretty solely in the realm of FF and MGS, two games that haven't been fun for me since the early 90s, in part because they became more about watching incoherent cut scenes and less about doing anything.
Fortunately for us westerners developers aren't going to stay short sighted as you make them out to be as there are more things than just cut scenes that can be added to take advantage of the extra space.
Even without adding a single bonus feature or cut scene, there are games that are taking up multiple DVDs on an Xbox that would fit on a single Blu-ray.
Trying to downplay more capacity to create is ignorant plain and simple.
This comment was edited on Aug 28, 2009, 12:27.
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