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windbane on 14 June 2007
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z64dan said:
Gballzack said:
It is kind of sad Blu-Ray's size is virtually useless in that it has to be filled up with redundant data just to avoid terrible loading times. Is Sony banking on faster readers in the future to avoid this "catch 22"?

Yeah having 25 gigs is pretty useless when 15 of the gigs are just extra copies of important info, stored close to other data so its faster for the laser to find...

I guess whenever games actually NEED 25 gigs, the loading will go from slow to incredibly frustrating.


Heh...you guys are funny.  The Oblivion guy complained that load times would be worse on the PS3 so he used duplicate data on the disc.  Okay.  However, seeing as how the DL discs actually read slower than blu-ray and blu-ray is the same speed throughout the disc, there isn't much to be worried about.

I'd also like to point out that all PS3s can install critical files like RR7, Oblivion, and others already do.  Ninja Gaiden Sigma will have a full install option.  In case you guys don't know, hard drives are much faster than optical drives.

PS3s will always have the load-time advantage.  Btw, Oblivion loaded twice as fast on the PS3.  A rather awesome port considering it also looked better and ran smoother.  I think it'll be ok.