{"id":5432,"date":"2010-02-22T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"god-of-war-iii-needs-35gb-disk-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/5432-god-of-war-iii-needs-35gb-disk-space","title":{"rendered":"God of War III needs 35GB disk space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&rsquo;s Tom Moss, Director of technology at Sony Santa Monica has revealed that the upcoming PS3 exclusive will require a massive 35GB of Blu-ray disk space when it is released.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;GOW3 35Gb of goodness. Thank heavens for Dual Layer Blu-Rays&rdquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TDMoss\/status\/9422071243\" target=\"_blank\"> tweeted <\/a>over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Most single-layer Blu-ray disks can store up to 25GB of data, while dual-layer disks double the storage capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly how Sony has managed to take up so much space with a game that will render natively at 720p remains a mystery, although current bets are on massive uncompressed sound files, and hopefully, some highly detailed texture packs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course PS3 fans will be quick to point out that the game would have had to be released on multiple disks for Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s more likely however that Sony could have actually made the game a lot smaller, and is embracing its whopping disk size in order to promote it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?4793-35GB-of-Blu-ray-space-needed-for-God-of-War-III&amp;p=181843#post181843\" target=\"_self\">Discuss God of War III disk space<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThank goodness for dual-layer Blu-ray\u201d says Sony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}