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JamesE
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:51 am |
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You can't expect New Games Journalists to fact check relevant detail, dude.
I'm to understand that a lot of PS3 stuff suffers quite heavily from bloat, or even having junk data pushed onto the ISO to move the important stuff towards the outer sector - in any case this is a MGS, so there will be distinct segments where a disc swap would be possible.
This game looks alarmingly stilted in pretty much every way. No doubt this will be seized upon by the Kojima fans as a genius way to simulate old age, at which point I break out the dutch ovens. I just want this off PS3 to damage Sony a bit more, really. |
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JamesE
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Kojima likes GoW |
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| Eric-Jon Rössel Waugh wrote: |
| Kappuru wrote: |
| errr.. i don't know what the kb/sec read speeds are, but I know they're a whole hell of a lot more than 150kb/sec. |
1) Blu-Ray is a brand new format
2) the drives in the PS3 will therefore be first-generation drives of this new format.
3) compared to the drives we'll be seeing if and when the format actually establishes itself, the PS3 drive is going to be slow, buggy, and horrible
4) it's comparable to the situation with early single-speed CD drives.
And fuck you, James. That wasn't necessary. |
Well, no less than three minutes with Google reveals that PS3 uses a 2x Blu-Ray.
Regardless, this is not like going "back to the Mega CD" - games consoles traditionally use low multipliers for drives, usually in the ballpark of 1-4x speed. This is pretty much a consistent trend across disc based media systems - Saturn and PSOne at double speed, Xbox hovering around 2-5x DVD, PS2 at 4x DVD. These are medium to low-end consumer items. At best you can make an argument at regression to the relative standards of 1995-era hardware, by which point CD had been knocking around for over a decade. We're in an entirely different world when it comes to introducing new classes of disc based media.
So basically while I know your line of work doesn't need you to check stuff or back anything up with citations, writers making off-the-wall assertions and sticking to them like they were canon has always been a pet hate of mine. The solution is not to say "fuck you" but to rein that shit in. |
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