| MikeB said: @ nightsurge It's correct and just only very few are left in denial it seems. And I wasn't the one to first go off topic. At least you brought nothing of value to this topic. |
Your information on the Blu-Ray drive being faster is NOT correct, Mike. I guess I should have specified this. Yes your info on the DVD-9 size is right. Seriously, multiple people have posted and you just ignored them, like usual. You only pick out a random sentance or two to reply about.
The Blu-ray drive is the PS3 is substantially slower than the DVD drive in the 360. That's a simple fact, one that should have no debate. However, Sony has waged a successful campaign of misinformation on that issue, and has somehow managed to convince people otherwise. Most people just don't have the technical background to understand the issue, so when Sony compares transfer rates to "prove" the PS3's drive is just as fast, people eat it right up.
(The truth is that the transfer rates aren't the problem and never were; the problem is the seek time, aka random access time. The 360's drive has a seek time of a little over 100ms, while the PS3's drive has a seek time of well over 300ms. This is why the PS3 has so many games with mandatory installs: caching data to the hard drive isn't done to improve maximum transfer rates, it's done to improve seek times. It's also why some developers have used duplicated data on Blu-ray discs: it reduces the number of data seeks required to load a scene, minimizing the effect of the bottleneck.)
