| BMaker11 said: This still does not answer his question about how blu ray negatively affected PS3 games. In what way blu ray negatively affect how gameplay experiences/how games were developed. Lack of 3rd party support for the WiiU completely deviates from the question of how a medium helps or hinders video games. |
Well. The Playstation 3's Blu-ray drive has a slower transfer rate than the Xbox 360.
Blu-ray in the PS3 is 9MB/s.
Whilst the Xbox 360's DVD drive is 16.62MB/s.
That can make an impact on data streaming from the optical drive, which the consoles heavily used.
The end result is, developers had to play "tetris" with the data on the discs to optimise how the game data is accessed and some data even had to be duplicated multiple times because of it.
That's not to say DVD didn't have it's own share of issues, take Final Fantasy for isntance with it's heavily compressed low-resolution video which was required to fit on DVD.
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