PS2 - Real info request.

[Alhanelem]

Reskins of old graphics do not work that way. Reskinning old content does not save disc space.

Absolutely 100% wrong.

Reusing (important: reusing, not reskinning- most duplicate areas are not "reskinned, not entirely anyway) old content DOES save disk space. It's not about laziness. The same textures can be used more than once, thus you don't need as much additional texture data taking up disk space. The Dynamis areas use almost no new textures at all on the areas (Only the skybox is different, and the addition of the objects blocking the zone exits) The WotG areas recycle a lot of the textures from the original area, even though there are some significant changes in some places. This does require less disk space than if the areas were totally new.

As for how much disk space FFXI and POL are allocated, in Japan there is more software that uses the PS2 hard drive. Thus the amount of disk space allocated is limited so that there is enough space for everything.

It's possible SE might be able to change the allocation of space, but that would require every PS2 and Xbox user to reinstall the game, most likely. And that is a potential serious problem for some PS2 users who have PS2s that cant read discs.