How much do you reckon Sony paid for MGS4 exclusivity?

[Andir]

starcraft said:

Andir said:

starcraft said:

 

Nonetheless, there are numerous threads open about Blu-Ray disk read and seek times, please use one of them if you wish to argue the toss, as this thread is about Sony paying for MGS4.

 

Yet you keep spouting false hardware related propaganda? Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

I don't believe it was false at all, and I only mentioned it to refute someone else who claimed that MGS4 was technically impossible on the Xbox 360, despite the fact it is not a graphically intensive game.

 

What you believe and what is true are two different things.  Use your noggin for a second here.  Data is stored on the discs as binary data.  There is no "special packet" involved here as you claim.  You are going to get the same transfer speed at the same point in a disc.  On DVD that speed gets faster as you move along the surface.  BD ROM acts more like a hard disk where the disc spins at a constant velocity and the drive doesn't have to wait for spin-up/spin-down as you would with regular DVD, thus decreasing the seek times since the head only has to move to the appropriate spot and start reading.  It's basic physics here.  DVDs have to wait for the disc to reach an appropriate speed.  If you have a game that fills all 9G of a DVD, your seeks times are going to go all to hell if you can't duplicate some of that info.  You'd have the laser all over that disk reading in uniform textures, level data, and whatever from all parts of the disc.  This is why they duplicate textures in each level and keep these within the same area on a disc.  Sure, you could probably squeeze MGS onto a DVD9, but your load times would suffer, your disc would constantly be spinning up and down to load the data all over the disc and you'd hate every minute of the loading.  But let me tell you, those first few levels that they crammed on the outter track with the commonly used textures and models would be pretty fast... but as you progress through the game, your load times would go in the crapper.