| TheRealMafoo said: For most real world applications, the BR is faster then the DVD drive in the 360. The only time it's not is for DVD-5, and almost no 360 games are on DVD-5 (most are on DVD-9). http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=42157 Also, to achieve that speed on the DVD, you need a very loud, unreliable device. Aside from RRoD, the DVD failing is the number one issue with the 360. It has also ruined many many games. (bump the 360 with a disk spinning, and it's "good by game") The slow release time for games has nothing to do with BR, and everything to do with the CELL (more to do with Sony's crappy development tools). Better development tools can (and have) been made. DVD will always be DVD. |
If you fully read your link (which was an opinion piece in which the author question his own figures), you'll find that as long as a developer is efficient with their file distribution, read speeds off a DVD9 can be and are still higher than off a Blu-Ray disk.
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