| Guiding Light said: 45GB is the available storage for data on a Bluray disc, be it video, or data or whatever. A single layer disc can hold 23.3GB. If you relate this back to DVD where a single layer can hold 4.37GB and a double layer 7.95GB. There's always going to be some overhead and you won't get TWICE the storage on a double layer, since extra error correction blocks are needed due to the extra layer and it being harder to read. I'm not sure how much of that 45GB the PS3 uses for other stuff, not a lot I wouldn't think. The comparison to the 6.9 GB available for the 360 is pointless. What are we comparing exactly? We all know that long games like RPGs will be spread over multiple discs. No other games have suffered due to the 6.8GB available. Swapping discs in RPGs has never bothered anyone who actually has done it. Only the people who like to make the PS3 look better by declaring it a problem.
The PS3 reads dual layer BD media at 2x - same as single layer. It's only in modern drives that reading is affected. For example my LG GGW-H20L can read at a maximum of 6x. It does it through CAV. So it starts at around 2.6x-6x-back down 2.6x on a dual layer disc. |
And now that hard drive installs are possible on the 360, the relatively few multi-disc games can be installed and have zero swapping required. But no PS3 fan would likely point this out. 
