Gears on blu ray

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TheRealMafoo said:
The BR is locked at a total speed of 9MBs. The DVD is 10.6 to 4.4. So at it's best it's 1.6 faster, but at it's worst it's 4.6 slower. I don't know if the change is linear, as the disk speed changes on the DVD drive, but if it is linear, that would put no more then 1 gig at a faster speed.

Also, it's rumored that the BR in the PS3 can do 100 and 200 gig disks when they come out. If that's true, I would assume the read times go up, as the disk spins at a relatively slow rate now. It would probably go up 50-100%.

As for the oblivion article, I have seen it. I also head it was blown out of context. The PS3 version loads faster then the 360, and has longer draw distance, and less load screens. This would indicate that not only does it load faster, but it loads more data in that time. not sure how that could be posable if the drive is slower. (optimized code maybe).

i can't find the article, but it said that the main reason they duplicated data, is that they had the space, and it improved load times, so why not? Even if it was already faster loading then the 360, if you can improve load times by using space you don't otherwise need, why not do it?

The maximum speed has DVD9 at 16mb I think, and a good developer that puts some effort into the game will have it near there pretty consistently.