At this year’s annual QuakeCon event, id Software programmer and co-founder John Carmack revealed that the company’s forthcoming post-apocalyptic first-person shooter title Rage will ship on multiple DVDs for the Xbox 360.

However, what’s still up in the air is how many discs the title will ship on. Without sacrificing texture quality, three discs will be enough, but the issue is that adding a third DVD into the equation would cost id “millions of dollars” in royalty fees, according to Carmack. If Microsoft does not agree to make a concession, id plans to ship Rage on two DVDs instead, with lower quality textures.

Obviously, the storage capacity of the Blu-ray discs makes this a non-issue on PlayStation 3. We’ll see how Microsoft responds.

QuakeCon 08: No Digital Distribution for Rage or Doom 4; Rage will be on Multiple DVDs for Xbox 360 [Max PC]

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