Mr Puggsly said:
Passe? Are you implying disc swapping was chic at one time? You are under the illusion that swapping discs after hours and hours is a big deal. Or maybe you're just reaching for anything to make PS3 using Bluray not seem like a bad choice. Sony lost record amounts of money and what do they have to show for it? You don't have to get up to swap a disc. Money well spent! |
Disc swapping was annoying on PC too, my favourite platform, and it had a peak during the transition from CD to DVD, when DVD was still expensive and not present in the majority of PCs yet, so SW houses released their biggest (as size, not necessarily success) games on multiple CDs, with no complete HDD install option when average HDD space was less than 40GB, and often only the most successful received a DVD version immediately or later, when a budget edition was released (and often only the most successful received total install - no CD patches).
If PS3 has an advantage, it's pointless to deny it, and during the transition from DVD to BD it's destined to be most evident. And if Sony paid a lot for it, initially selling PS3 at a loss, good for its users.
Immediately after PS3 situation comes the PC, currently, as HDD size grew enough in the last 10 years to allow complete installs even of the biggest games, so we PC users, not having Sony partially funding a BDD adoption for us, can wait for prices to drop and install from DVDs still avoiding disc swaps after the initial installation effort.
Third comes Wii that being SD needs less space and it's still fine with just one DVD per game.
And on this issue last comes XB360, sorry.
