Lost Planet 2 Cuts Blamed On Xbox 360 Disc Size
But don't worry, it'll likely be DLC instead!
Could your money burn like this when LP2 releases?
So, how's Lost Planet 2 coming along? Pretty well, according to Capcom - if you don't mind getting much of the intended material as downloadable content. Producer Jun Takeuchi told Japanese magazine Famitsu that the team 'wept' as they had to keep "cutting out content".
"We included a lot in this release, and by the end it became a battle with the disc capacity," Takeuchi explains (via Sankaku Complex - careful, the site's NSFW), referring to the Xbox 360 version's DVD capability. "That stuff might be available as DLC in the future - look forward to it."
His comments are similar to those made in previous interviews about Resident Evil 5 - a game which ended up causing controversy by offering a multiplayer mode as paid-for DLC. It seems the same situation may arise for Lost Planet 2 - in the Famitsu interview, Takeuchi further complains about Microsoft's "refusal to employ Blu-ray" media.
But don't think Capcom will be rubbing its collective hands with glee at the potential DLC goldmine that lays ahead of it; "Truly, we were weeping as we were forced to cut stuff," Takeuchi laments.
"We included a lot in this release, and by the end it became a battle with the disc capacity," Takeuchi explains (via Sankaku Complex - careful, the site's NSFW), referring to the Xbox 360 version's DVD capability. "That stuff might be available as DLC in the future - look forward to it."
His comments are similar to those made in previous interviews about Resident Evil 5 - a game which ended up causing controversy by offering a multiplayer mode as paid-for DLC. It seems the same situation may arise for Lost Planet 2 - in the Famitsu interview, Takeuchi further complains about Microsoft's "refusal to employ Blu-ray" media.
But don't think Capcom will be rubbing its collective hands with glee at the potential DLC goldmine that lays ahead of it; "Truly, we were weeping as we were forced to cut stuff," Takeuchi laments.
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Comments
The Programmer 18 Feb 2010 11:58
1/4
Has Capcom not heard of using 2 DVD's? The 360 has the abillity to install to a HDD so I don't know why half of the game should be DLC.
tyrion 18 Feb 2010 13:53
2/4
Maybe not including characters from other games would have cut down on the space requirements?
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Tamikaze 18 Feb 2010 15:29
3/4
Its called making money..
Daz 18 Feb 2010 16:01
4/4
@The_Programmer
I don't think so, the only Capcom games I know that are more than one disc is RE0, REmake and RE4 but they're on GC with it's s**tty little 1gb(actually I don't remember the size) discs
I don't think so, the only Capcom games I know that are more than one disc is RE0, REmake and RE4 but they're on GC with it's s**tty little 1gb(actually I don't remember the size) discs