Sony: Game and Movie on Same Disc Coming This Year
Seeing as how Blu-ray holds a vast amount of data most of which isn’t used by most publishers, Sony is now actively pursuing game makers and movie studios to combine movies with tie-in videogames on the same Blu-ray disc this year.
“We are actively pushing, and the way that we see the future is that the movie and the game are placed on the same disc,” said PlayStation 3 director of hardware marketing John Koller. “There are a lot of developers who say, we have this game based on a movie, wouldn’t it be great to marry these concepts? We will definitely see this stuff this year.”
The hybrid disc is still being worked on, and while Koller did not mention any specific titles, he did note that a handful of games/movies will be released this year.
“This is a value message with the PS3,” added Koller. “Consumers can capitalize on the larger amount of space with Blu-ray. There are grander experiences for movies or games.”
I can imagine it right now: the Transformers game packed in with the movie sequel in the same disc (among many others).