| nightsurge said: Stop being stubborn Mike. Admit you were wrong and that the 360's DVD drive is faster and does read data off of 360 games faster than a Blu-Ray drive reads data off of PS3 games. After people proved you wrong in this thread, you ignored their posts. You only posted information to those whom did not know what they were talking about, because you knew you could get them to be confused and believe you based on your flawed arguments. Just admit the 360's drive is faster and reads faster... Just do it.... it won't hurt admitting you were wrong. I promise.
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You are correct and incorrect: you're correct that seek times are faster on DVD than on Blu-ray, and that seek time is important to console games, but you are incorrect in assuming that MikeB will ever admit this. 
I find it amusing that some people are arguing that seek times are not important for games stored on optical discs. DVD and Blu-Ray are *primarily* designed to stream data, i.e. - music and movies when are for the *most* part read in a linear fashion. That's why those formats use a large spiral track instead of the concentric tracks and sectors employed by hard drives and diskettes. Hard drives and diskettes are designed for random access, i.e. - programs and separate data files read in a NON-linear fashion.
So what does this tell us? That seek times are VERY important when playing a game that is stored primarily on a DVD or Blu-Ray disc, because the data will to a large degree NOT be accessed in a linear fashion. This is why Oblivion on a DVD has one copy of each data file but on Blu-Ray has several copies of each file placed strategically on the disc... according to Bethesda, the random access times on Blu-Ray were NOT SUFFICIENT to provide acceptable performance:
http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/11006/Oblivion_Developer_Blu-ray_Is_Slower.html
Finding the original Todd Howard interview is nearly impossible as EGM was a paper magazine and is now defunct.
