Everyone knows that there is a big war going on between Blu-Ray and HD DVD and nearly everyone has their views on it! According to CVG, Guerrilla managing director Herman Hulst and Killzone 2 producer Steven Ter Heide indicated that the Blu-Ray is good for video games than for movies.
Herman Hulst told CVG, “If you’re not willing to make that investment then you’re going to lose out on some options. To make it simple, the Xbox 360 doesn’t have SixAxis or Blu-ray. PlayStation 3 does. And for us that’s a really big thing. The level you’ve just seen is 2GB. We really need Blu-ray to make the game. I don’t know how you could fit it on Xbox 360 without taking some shortcuts. Blu-ray isn’t important for watching movies; we need it for making games.”
They also spoke on the importance of developing a game that is single platform rather than a multi platform. Steven Ter Heide said, “I would say impossible. We literally can’t do this stuff on any machine other than the PS3. If you’re developing a multiplatform game, and looking at your budgets, you have to find a common denominator between the systems and say: that’s what I’m developing for. Whereas someone focused on a single platform can really take advantage of everything it has to offer.”
Hulst also mentioned that for Killzone 2, they will fully exploit the architecture of PS3 and said that they can bring it out on the PlayStation 3 ,what they had earlier shown and would be difficult to bring it on ‘a competing machine’. Of course, you can make out whether he is referring it to the Wii or the Xbox 360, but it does seem he was pointing to Microsoft’s next-gen machine.