| Tird fergesson said: I'm responding in the order of your comments, so here it goes- - I read the exact same article you did and I previously recognized the same quote and once again, they do not state why it is possible. So Ubisoft is being fan-boyish just the way you and I are. - If you look at Insomniacs track record, whether it's what they say or create, they're credibility is impeccable. Now, I'm not going to get into who is the better developer though I have my opinions so let's agree to disagree. - As for why they didn't compress, It probably was for the sake of saying they need blu-ray. I recognized that too and hoped you wouldn't say it but you have to admit games like Ratchet and Resistance do need the space. As for how fast media is ripped off the disc, Blu-ray's outer layers take longer to read but as the lazer moves towards the inner layers, they are ripper at around 32 mb/s. Over the span of a minute it averages about 16.8 mb/s compared to dvd's constant 16 mb/s. This small difference doesn't matter much. The fact that dvd's rip data at a constant rate of 16 mb/s means that the shorter a multiplatform game's load times are the shorter they will be on a dvd when compared to blu-ray. As for the initial start-up on most games, blu-ray will have the edge. As for the article, I've read all of those tech comparisons since the beginning of the console war. Analysts can prove anything one way or the other just the way a scientist can fix an experiment. It's all a matter of bias and both you and I know that. But none the less, the PS3's theoretical CPU power is still higher than the 360's and nothing in that article says anything about the PS3's power compared to 360's. All it says is that neither console can reach its theoretical apex which is irrelevant in this argument. Anyway, I've learned something from all of this. People have their opinions and it's a waste of time trying to change them. Anyone can spin anything any way they want and we both know what we're talking about so let's just end this stupid fanboy crap before this goes any further. What do you say? Deal?
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The article does assert that the PS3's theoretical power, whilst higher than the 360's, will struggle to make games look any better until the end of the generation, when the difference will be marginal. The console's ability to do this will be further limited by the PS3's limited memory.
As for the Blu-Ray part, I was always under the impression the PS3's Blu-Ray drive was locked at a constant speed like TotalWar23 said.
Finally on the Ubisoft vs. Insomniac side of things, we'll have to agree to disagree like you said. I try to never base an argument solely on a first-party developer's comments, no matter how highly I regard that developer.
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