It’s been revealed that Rockstar and Team Bondi’s upcoming crime thriller L.A. Noire spans a total of three discs on Xbox 360. By contrast, the PS3 version will fill up an entire layer of one Blu-ray disc, weighing in at 25GB.

Rockstar’s Jeronimo Barrera tells Kotaku that the company went to meticulous lengths to flesh out the world that L.A. Noire encompasses. In fact, they planned on it taking up so much space right from the start.

L.A. Noire was always going to be a massive game, from the size and detail of the world to the length of the cases, and of course, the sheer amount of MotionScan data required for the faces of over 400 actors in-game. To tell the story and make the game we wanted to make, we knew that it was going to take an entire single layer Blu-ray disc and three Xbox discs.

Barrera says players will find disc swapping “hassle-free,” further noting that “players will only need to swap discs twice at natural breaks between cases without interrupting the flow of the game.”

Despite Rockstar’s best efforts to make the process as smooth as possible, we have little doubt that some will still manage to complain about having to swap. But in this case, you have an alternative: the PS3 version.

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