Out of everything Sony has showed so far, this thing seems to stick out like a sore thumb. Only a 6x BD-ROM! Why would they use that when 10 - 12x are already available, and at similar prices? A 6x drive only has a read speed of 27MB per second, that is 38 secounds just to load 1GB of data, at 12x things are better 54MB/s cutting things to 19 seconds for 1GB. My concern is, if we are going to have 4 - 6GB available for games won't load times be excruciatingly long?
Is this going to create another PS3 situation were devs require HDD installs due to the slow drive speed? Even in that case doesn't a 6x drive just mean longer install times? To me this just looks like bad news. I know that streaming speeds make a world of difference in games, SSD>HDD>BRD, and I want the best experiance they can give us.
Is this a concern to anyone else?
Optical Drive
(read only)
BD 6xCAV
DVD 8xCAV
*Specifications are subject to change without notice.
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf
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10/03/2010
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