MikeB on 29 November 2008
@ blazinhead89
the slow blu ray drive
On average a PS3 Blu-Ray drive can read data faster than a 360 can read a 6.8 GB (dual layer) 360 disc.
DVD (and CD) has been around far longer, so devs had over a decade to optimise loading routines (varying read speeds) and still use this for their multi-platform games. For the small part of a 360 DVD which is being read faster this can cause problems, installing this to the harddrive is overkill (more than needed) but is an easy workaround.
One major advancement for Blu-Ray disc in comparison to DVD, other than more storage and scratch resistance is the constant predictable streaming speed, this combined with a harddrive for data caching offers a lot of potential.
