Mark Rein’s comments regarding the additional legroom afforded by Blu-ray Disc gave PlayStation 3 proponents a reason to celebrate. Thanks to the seemingly enormous storage space available on a Blu-ray Disc, future games from Epic may ship with more content than on other DVD-based consoles. Rein’s comments, however, were not meant as a criticism of the Xbox 360, as the Epic Games VP explained in the official developer forums. He wrote, “I continue to be disappointed that folks on the internet treat any positive thing we say about one platform as some sort of critique of another platform. We're a multi-platform company folks please come to grips with that.” In defense of his earlier comments, Rein said that he was simply stating the facts and that Xbox 360 owners will somehow have access to content that may not make it on a single DVD-9. “The simple facts state that the optical disc on the PS3 holds more data than the optical disc on the 360. If we exceed size of the 360s optical disc then we'll have to find alternative ways to get the content to 360 users such as making it downloadable,” he said.
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