id: RAGE May Have Separate Single and Multiplayer Discs on Xbox 360

In a new interview with Shacknews, id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead spoke about the Xbox 360 and the console’s DVD format limitations. As a result, the game may be on separate discs; one for multiplayer and one for single-player.

“We believe may be able to get the whole game on two DVDs.” Hollenshead said, “The current fallback is, if we can’t, the multiplayer may–you have to come up with logical breaks, well, really, practical breaks.

“It makes no sense for a player to swap that disc in multiplayer, right? That’s fail. They have to keep one disc in during multiplayer, can you just put all the multiplayer content on one DVD? Even if it’s duplicative of some of the content you have on the other single-player DVDs.”

People with hard-drives will obviously have better performance with the game, but id wants it to run fine for everyone, including those without hard-drives.

“Best case, we get it all on two, and then we’d be good. We don’t think there’s any way to fit it all on one. Maybe two single-player and one multiplayer, hopefully not four or five. At that point, we might have to start making decisions about compression ratios and things like that.”

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