ethomaz on 12 April 2013
| Pemalite said: Those who are worried about load times... Don't be. The Playstation 3 has a *slow* 2x BD drive, drives that are 16x faster are readily available, you would hope Blu Ray drives are faster, it's been 7 years. Combined with the fact that developers will probably be installing data to the HDD should reduce the load times even more when a game access's both drives in tandem. Plus when they start printing a game onto Disc, they place data on the disc in such a way so as to get the highest transfer speed and lowest latency on important frequently used data. Plus there are other tricks they can do to, they can use high levels of compression to store the data on the disc, that data is then sent to the ram, then the CPU dedicates a core to unpacking it. - You can get some pretty crazy compression ratios on some stuff, think: 8:1, so a 100Mb file could become 800Mb in ram and so on. |
PS4 uses a 6x BD drive... and with 7GB available the developer can use the RAM to decrease the load time instead the HDD.
