| disolitude said: There is a little too much Sony coolade in your posts my friend...You're the type of dude that defended UMD's cause Sony invented them despite hte fact they were gimping the PSP. I hope we both get our way next gen. Then you can enjoy your load times and have bluray and I can pay a little more to get games on memory cartriges and have an SSD hard drive in my console of choice... |
Seems there is way more anti-Sony Kool-aid (I prefer the name brand) in your posts. It's funny you speak of load times as if they are god awful this gen and stop people from playing for a greater amount of time. You must be very impatient if that's how see things. Then again, if you added up all the load times from playing straight from the disc vs. the time it takes to install the game on a HDD+plus the load times (yea, things still have load times even if installed on the HDD), it probably would take the same amount of time, if not longer, to get through the HDD game. Either way, load times will be greatly reduced next gen with the advancement of the Blu-ray tech/speed. But, you just keep drinking your Kool-aid, and I'll continue to enjoy mine.
Edit: Also forgot to mention that the largest capacity SD cards are 128 GB so far. While that is larger than a dual layer Blu-ray, the current speed is only ~20MB/s as of now. Less than a 12x Blu-ray player. They do hope to get speeds up to 300MB/s, but who knows how long that will take (could be around the launch of the next gen systems) or how much those cards would cost. My guess is that with every new upgrade, the cost would balloon to ~$150-$200 (the price a 128GB currently goes for. Companies are not going to be waiting around for those cards, at those prices, to base their consoles around. Not when Blu-ray is getting cheaper quickly and only requires higher speed drives, while using the same discs, to pull off similar performance.
