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disolitude on 23 February 2013
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


i dont understand why 27 MB per second read speed is cause for excitement...but to each their own.



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Subie_Greg on 23 February 2013
disolitude said:
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


i dont understand why 27 MB per second read speed is cause for excitement...but to each their own.


You don't understand how a improvement to what you currently have is cause for excitement?



disolitude on 23 February 2013
Subie_Greg said:
disolitude said:
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


i dont understand why 27 MB per second read speed is cause for excitement...but to each their own.


You don't understand how a improvement to what you currently have is cause for excitement?

if you want 1080p resolution and textures and better looking games this gen youre not getting much improvement at all at that speed.

physical media loading should be dead this gen...then id celebrate



walsufnir on 23 February 2013
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


No, because access-times are still PITA. I hope they put an option like MS so games can be put on hard-drive. I don't want to play any game on an optical disc anymore in my life.



Subie_Greg on 23 February 2013
walsufnir said:
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


No, because access-times are still PITA. I hope they put an option like MS so games can be put on hard-drive. I don't want to play any game on an optical disc anymore in my life.


Well yeah I do to. But the 6X applies to movies as well. Having the movie load up faster is a good thing. At least imo anyway



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forevercloud3000 on 23 February 2013
walsufnir said:
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


No, because access-times are still PITA. I hope they put an option like MS so games can be put on hard-drive. I don't want to play any game on an optical disc anymore in my life.


yea, its called buy digitally. You do know the only reason that feature was even added to the 360 was to save the lens from overheating the system, and subsequent RROD right? Made no sense to me that tyou install it to the HDD, just to have to always have the disc in to play. DO they still do that????



      

      

      

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GribbleGrunger on 23 February 2013
Aldro said:
The question is if MS even cares about the power. If they do: THey are in a position where they can do it.

Anyhow: Can you imagine how games will look in mid and late in this cycle? Holy fuck

Vast open world RPGs with Deep Down dragons and NPCs with Cage's standard in character builds. REALITY!!!



 

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Kasz216 on 23 February 2013
Psyberius said:
n-skyline said:
Chark said:
n-skyline said:

I just assumed changing Ram would be simple seeing as Sony has apparently done so.. I didnt realise changing to a different type of Ram would be so time consuming though, thanks for the info


It all depends and I'm going to say some tech stuff that could be wrong right now. The system would be built with a certain buz size and the motherboard would potentially need to be remade to accomodate it. This could change the size of the system, the heat, power draw, changing the power supply, the heat synchs, the fans, and the case. Then there is the code in the chip works in how the system utilizes memory, and the software code. Then there are all the devs that made a game using the old memory, and those game will have issues either running or won't be able to take advantage of the new specs for years.

MS also apparently had production yield issues last year and if a RAM change messes with any of that, though I'm not sure, it could be pretty rough. Essentially they would have to start making the parts all over to accomodate and delay their console a whole year.

so basically changing the type of ram setup would potentially have a knock on effect that could require other components to be changed also, probably obvious to a lot of people but i didnt know that.. i think we wont have GDDr5 in the next xbox then assuming it has been created with GDDR3

The chance of MS allowing Sony to destroy them graphically this generation now that Microsoft has equalled and almost beat them is doubtful.  I can see MS having several footprints of console and stepping up in order to copy or beat Sony.   I just don't see MS going "here, take back all that market we ganked off you last generation by having a superior machine".

Eh, 8 gigs of DDR3 woudln't be being "crushed" by any means.

 

If they did upgrade if anything i'd think they'd go with DDR4 assuming Microsoft launches in 2014.  



walsufnir on 23 February 2013
forevercloud3000 said:
walsufnir said:
Subie_Greg said:
Also worth noting that the PS4 will read a blu ray disc 3 times faster than the PS3.

Exciting times ahead indeed


No, because access-times are still PITA. I hope they put an option like MS so games can be put on hard-drive. I don't want to play any game on an optical disc anymore in my life.


yea, its called buy digitally. You do know the only reason that feature was even added to the 360 was to save the lens from overheating the system, and subsequent RROD right? Made no sense to me that tyou install it to the HDD, just to have to always have the disc in to play. DO they still do that????

*sigh* Why all this hate?

First:

Optical Disc Drives are set to break. The BR-Drive of old PS3 broke in many consoles. But this applies to all ODDs, not Sony-specific.

Optical Disc Drives are *loud*. Compared to disks and (of course flash) they are ridiculously loud.

Optical Disc Drives are *slow*. The access-times of any ODD are much higher than with HDDs, not to mention SSDs.

 

And now to you: What is that with RROD? Really boy, why? It was a new *feature* to dashboard resulting in better loading-times and less noise. The install has never been mandatory as Sony did with some games. And of course you had to keep the disc in because otherwise you could... really, don't you get it? Piracy?



forevercloud3000 on 23 February 2013

Kasz brings up a good point...
What are MS's options as far as releasing? If they don't reveal their console till E3, I can't imagine a release this year. If they alter any of their hardware to compare to PS4, they might have to delay as well. This is assuming Sony doesn't have to delay due to their last minute change(which might not be, they just kept it a secret from devs as to fake out MS).



      

      

      

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