Carmack: RAGE won't work too well on 3 DVD's, Doom 4 will

News by Mike Bowden Staff Writer (Former)

Published on July 21, 2009

id Software's John Carmack has been discussing multiplatform trade-off's with GameInformer and has said that putting RAGE on 3 DVD's on Xbox 360 is a problem as the nature of the game won't really allow for it.

"We would love to set the thing up where it filled one Blu-ray disc versus three DVDs, which is about the right mix, but the game just...we can't cut it into a third like that," he said

"We can cut it into two pieces. We've got two large wastelands on there. We just couldn't make an arbitary cut."

However, Carmack forsees no problem with Doom 4 being multi disk.

"Doom 4 is being set up so that it's almost certainly going to be cut up to 3 DVDs versus one Blu-ray. At least they've got the ability because of the way it's structured." concluded Carmack.

Carmack also compared development on the two consoles:

"There's a little bit more theoretical raw performance on the PS3, so we've got a little bit more headroom.

"The 360 was easier to certainly to get to where we are now. More sweat equity had to be put into the PS3."