prlatino86 said:
MikeB said:
prlatino86 said:
Umm, Blu Ray doesnt mean shit on a PC as pretty much no PC games stream off discs anymore. Everything is installed on the Hard Drive. The problem with the Cell is no one really knows how to harness it for at least to its full potential. So yeah, current CPUs will do the job running a game just as well as the Cell can. |
Of course it does, even if the 120-160 GB PS3 rumours are true 20GB-100GB games will never be fully installed on the harddrive, takes too much space and takes too much time to fully install. With regard to the Cell many devs know how to harness the potential of the Cell, but Rome just wasn't built in a day. Legacy engines need to be adapted, requiring time and effort. If you have a single threaded game engine you will have to spend an enormous amount of time and effort adapting your engine to get the most out of the platform. |
What? what are you talking about 120 Gig PS3 for? Of course they wouldnt do full installs because its a console. PC are different. The game can come HIGHLY compressed on a disc because it will be installed and streamed from the Harddrive. Consoles cant really use as high of compression rates as it will slow down the game, and increase load times. |
The Cell is excellently suited for load-time and run-time decompression. The cell can decompress files faster than the PS3 can read from discs, thus good compression of files (other than lossless uncompressed 7.1 audio) makes sense and is done in Games like Uncharted. For Uncharted there is no install time and very minimal load times involved.
