MikeB on 05 January 2008
@ Coglestop
PCs also get access to faster HDD's, which can improve streaming speeds.
Yes, that may be an advantage in some cases (although on the PC devs often need to take into account lower specced PCs, unlike for PS3s which at their core are all specced identically, though PS3s can use faster harddrives as well). The entire content of a 50GB Blu-Ray disc can be streamed in much less time than the duration of a very short game, continuously streaming audio and textures, so IMO the reading speed is more than sufficient for well designed games and storage size is actually of much higher importance.
The REAL problems with PC development is hardware costs, having to ensure your software works with older hardware and being unable to optimize for a specific hardware setup.(the last one is the big one)
Agreed, I shared such opinions often in the past.
