PS3 Load Time Boo-boos?
PlayStation 3 has been struggling to get good publicity breaks and Sony being mum when confronted regarding certain issues is not helping at all. Being the former Manager of Developer Relations for Sony, Mark DeLoura might want to shed some light about PS3’s load times as he comments on the latest tirades done by rival company, Microsoft.
Xbox Team’s Andre Vrignaud, known as the blogger Ozymandia, recently reiterated why drive speed is more important than storage capacity. Offense might have been taken but it is a surprise DeLoura didn’t make any efforts to debunk such allegations. Instead, he agrees as he says:
“Admittedly, Blu-Ray looks dicey from several non-capacity angles. Blu-Ray movies require a 1.5x Blu-Ray drive, or 54Mbits/second. Sony announced that PS3 uses a 2x BD drive, which is 72Mbits/second or 9MB/second. The Xbox 360 uses a 12x DVD, which should give it about 16MB/second. That is significantly faster for games and will result in shorter load times. And that 12x DVD drive should be a whole lot cheaper.“
At this point, it is important to remember that Resistance: Fall of Man, one of PS3 launch titles, is composed of 22GB of data. Logic will leave us thinking just how much of loading time this would take on this next-gen console.
But let us not forget that Sony requires its developers to support the hard drive and couple this with the compression technologies touched on by the debate to shrink the data down. We don’t know for sure but Sony might still have some tricks and surprises up its sleeves. We’re keeping our fingers crossed…
Via ozymandias
PlayStation 3 has been struggling to get good publicity breaks and Sony being mum when confronted regarding certain issues is not helping at all. Being the former Manager of Developer Relations for Sony, Mark DeLoura might want to shed some light about PS3’s load times as he comments on the latest tirades done by rival company, Microsoft.
Xbox Team’s Andre Vrignaud, known as the blogger Ozymandia, recently reiterated why drive speed is more important than storage capacity. Offense might have been taken but it is a surprise DeLoura didn’t make any efforts to debunk such allegations. Instead, he agrees as he says:
“Admittedly, Blu-Ray looks dicey from several non-capacity angles. Blu-Ray movies require a 1.5x Blu-Ray drive, or 54Mbits/second. Sony announced that PS3 uses a 2x BD drive, which is 72Mbits/second or 9MB/second. The Xbox 360 uses a 12x DVD, which should give it about 16MB/second. That is significantly faster for games and will result in shorter load times. And that 12x DVD drive should be a whole lot cheaper.“
At this point, it is important to remember that Resistance: Fall of Man, one of PS3 launch titles, is composed of 22GB of data. Logic will leave us thinking just how much of loading time this would take on this next-gen console.
But let us not forget that Sony requires its developers to support the hard drive and couple this with the compression technologies touched on by the debate to shrink the data down. We don’t know for sure but Sony might still have some tricks and surprises up its sleeves. We’re keeping our fingers crossed…
Via ozymandias
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