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Adinnieken on 13 February 2013
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superchunk said:
Adinnieken said:
superchunk said:
thranx said:
superchunk said:
A lot seemed plausible until the full install games... wow that would ruin the experience for everyone.

You'd be severely limited to the number of games you could just pick up and play ... I mean how big is an average game in HD now and how big will they become considering all three companies are using bluray?

Interesting it true... have to really see it in real usage to see how well it works. Would also mean a lot more digital push then if people effectively don't need the disc. Personally, I like that. One less reason to get up off my ass.. why would I want to change game discs?


they mentioned the ability to play while installing.

Because that would have no impact on the overall performance.

Well, if you read the patents you'd be aware of a patent that specifically deals with this very type of thing.  Running one "application" while another runs without negatively impacting performance.

But you're good at reading rumor...not patents...I forgot that.  

That's an impossibility considering the game will be running on the same HDD that it is currently being installed from. However, I did say that I'd "...have to really see it in real usage to see how well it works". But, I'm going to go with the idea that it will affect performance during installation.

From what I read, there is 50GB of Flash Memory involved.  So in much the same way a hybrid HDD works, data would be streamed from the media, to the flash memory, then streamed to the HDD.  Since the application (game) has to read the ODD, the console can, during the same read process, copy the content to the flash memory, than at a later point write it too the HDD.  It requires the data being optimized, so that reads are quick and it requires that the application (game) be designed in such a way that the content necessary for the game to be initially played is of a reasonable size. 

A lot of current generation games use on-the-fly data reads with little to no impact on the game being played.