Xbox 360 is soon witnessing the evening sun with DVD9 and is almost at the dead stage of the road. The main reason behind this is the fact that studios have soon starting realizing that the format of the game is too limiting in space to sprout. They are haunted by the decision of Microsoft to be sticking with their older media format. The disc space, while on one hand, has started affecting the Xbox 360 game version; on the other hand, it is also spreading its effect on other two  gaming versions.

Till date, many Xbox 360 games have been hampered by the DVD9 format, like the famous Gotham Racing 4. In this case, some portions of this lengthy game were to be deleted and removed so that the game could successfully fit into a single DVD. Another game called the Rage will also be needed to modify and undergo deletions here and there to make it adhere to the size for DVD9. This would ultimately affect the impressive hat the game is to throw on the players.

Tim Willits, the lead designer at id Software’s, spoke about Rage and disclosed some really shocking news about the game. According to him, the game Rage was originally designed to many a large number of wastelands that players had to explore, but to fit into a single DVD the developers will have to work around to bring down the number of these wastelands. In fact, the present version of the game has only two wastelands. Another disclosure that came as a big surprise was the fact that similar changes were also made to various PS3 and Pc iterations so that all the versions look similar as far as the story line was concerned.

This is definitely not happy news for many gamers across the world because deletions imply a kmarked reduction in the time of the game play.  Willits further added that the Xbox supports only a data of 6­-8 GB, while the PS3 is about 25 GB. Therefore, work in on to make it possible for the game to be loaded into two discs in case of the 360 version.

In case of PC, every Pc comes with its own hard drive. In case of PS3, the game comes with a blu-ray enabled player and a hard drive too. However, the problem lies the Xbox 360 because it has to rely on external hard discs and media choices. One solution that developers see to this problem is to make it mandatory for some hard drives to be installed before allowing players to get their version of these games.