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Conina on 19 April 2019
| Mr Puggsly said: I don't feel running games off a HDD was done out of necessity. The PS3 was able to run games directly from a BD disc, so did the Wii U (likely BD tech). Therefore its not crazy to assume PS4 and X1 could have as well especially with their faster drives. |
The (maximal) speed of the PS4 BR-drive is 3x of the PS3 BR-drive, but many games have grown a lot more than 3x the size.
For installing they are fine, since thats a long sequential loading scenario, but playing games directly from the optical drive, the jumping around to dozens/hundreds of different points on the disc and speeding up / slowing down the disc every few minutes is very stressful for the mechanics (and noisy).
