slowmo on 20 April 2009
| Fumanchu said: The pitfall has more to do with seek times. The BD in the PS3 is CLV which means there's extra latency due to the fact that the RPM's are constantly modulated. |
Also when combined with the fact that developers create the disk image with read speed in mind so that regularly used assetts are in the ares that can be read the quickest. This is one of the reasons Halo 3 runs better from disk than the HDD. Your post showed bluray in only a positive light and quickly neglected to mention how DVD was a lot better for the majority of time. If for example data at the extreme edges of the disk is filled with video files for example where speed is not an issue then the actual game data average read speed increases again.
Averages is a very poor method of calculating a drives performance and is just an excuse to try and paint Bluray into a good light as a gaming media (which 2x isn't).
