| Mr_No said: Then why respond to my comment on first place if it's an opinion you care little about? Also... |
Your image is non functional.
I don't care about you or your opinion, I care about facts and points that are presented and will argue against those based on their merits.
| TheBraveGallade said: I think people are forgetting one thing: if you own a game in digital, you don't actually OWN the game, unlike a phisical game... as for me I prefer carts because I hate the loading to HDD bulshit disks do. if you are going to do that, might as well go digital... |
The legalities of that are still yet to be determined as far as I know.
And the legalities of which will also vary depending on geographical region.
In Australia we tend to be more Pro-Consumer... And the consumer likely owns the purchased content due to the way it is advertised.
For example... You buy a game on Steam... It says "Buy now" rather than "License Now". - Thus from a consumer standpoint the consumer is buying a copy and not licensing it.
Furthermore an EULA/ToS does not override the law or your consumer rights.
| dharh said: Certainly Reddit is no actual evidence. I did have more free time to look stuff up and found this iFixit breakdown that also mentions that this is a software issue. Blu-Ray drives that can play DVD/CD have two laser assemblies. One for Blu-Ray and one for DVD/CD. The PS4 also has both of these laser assemblies. We know this from actually looking at the laser lenses inside the drive and the fact that it can play DVDs. It also appears thre are newer single laser assemblies that can do both red and blue lasers. I think this is what the PS4 slim and PS4 pro are using. |
iFixit actually uses Eurogamer as a citation point which is also citing a Sony press release from over 4 years ago.
Eurogamer is generally accurate anyway. But there still hasn't been any movement on this front.
But thank you for your effort, you are right on all your points.
However... One thing to keep in mind is that just like Blu-Ray and DVD... CD also operates at a different wavelength, traditional DVD drives required a few tricks to retain backwards compatability CD, so it's not outside of the realm of impossibility for a drive to support BDROM and DVD and not CD and nor does the BDROM and DVD specification enforce such a thing either.
I hope for Playstation 4 users that CD support is introduced at some point, it's baffling why it's still not included if it's a software limitation when Sony pledge to support the format at one point.
| fatslob-:O said: The only probably reason why Nintendo games maintains lower install times/faster loading times is because their games usually have a low storage memory/(I/O) bandwidth ratio ... |
Switch should have an advantage on random access times though.
In general... The Switch isn't breaking 90MB/s of bandwidth regardless if it is cart or MicroSD... And because of such, the mechanical drives in the consoles are actually faster at sustained reads and writes. (The Optical Disks are much slower than all of them however.)
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