Onimusha12 said:
This kind of consolation rationale was pretty popular when the PS3 first launched, but as time goes on we're seeing less and less potential for the PS3 to pick up momentum, in fact as time passes more and more works against its favor. It's already one of the most obsolete Blu-Ray players on the market, its only saving grace is its price and that won't last for long either. While everyone sings the praises of what Blu-Ray has done for gaming, it was this wreckless implementation of it in its earliest form that has done the most damage to the PS3. While the PS3's Blu-Ray player reads at 2-4x speed other Blu-Ray players are already up to 14-16x speed. Mandatory file instalations wouldn't be are necessity for the PS3 had it featured a more advanced Blu-Ray drive, but unfortunately that wasn't a possibility so Sony had no choice but to force this unproven format prematurely on their next console dooming it not only as the next viable successor to the Playstation brand but its future utility of Blu-Ray in gaming. There is so much the Playstation 3 could have done with Blu-Ray but will never be able to due to its primitive early form of it. |
There are no Blu-Ray players yet which are at 14-16x speed. Fastest Blu-Ray player I found has 6x speed. According to some it is financially impossible to make a Blu-Ray player faster that 12x. DVD's has practical limit of about 20x and CD's 52x speed.
Btw. 2x speed on BR is equal to 8x speed on DVD and 32x on CD.
