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Capcom trims 'Lost Planet 2' on Xbox 360
Thursday, February 18 2010, 15:55 GMT

By Andrew Laughlin, Technology Reporter


Capcom has revealed that it was forced to make significant cuts to the Xbox 360 version of Lost Planet 2 due to the smaller disc size.

According to Kotaku, Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi said that the DVD dics used in Microsoft's console required a portion of the game to be trimmed.

In comparison, the larger capacity Blu-ray discs used in Sony's PS3 meant that the cuts were not required.

He said the edited content on Xbox 360 was "way too much" and that dealing with the problem was "more difficult than anything" in the development.

"This time, truly, the content that was cut was significant," he added. "At the end, we had to wrestle with disc space."

Takeuchi said that the development team was almost in tears while having to cut swathes of the game to fit with the available DVD disc space.

However, he gave hope to Xbox 360 gamers with the suggestion that the trimmed content could still be made available "at a later date" as a downloadable package.

Lost Planet 2 will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in May.

How stupid, They couldn't stretch out for an extra disc for the Xbox version? It's just another way to squeeze more money out of the Xbox gamers at a later date. DLC's is really starting to become a poison in gaming as loads of companies are holding back content on purpose to charge players later it's ridiculous. I hope the Xbox Version bombs now since Capcom's becoming worse and worse for DLC abuse every day.