Sony bashing lack of blu-ray?
Kaz Hirai, SCEA president questioned Microsoft for their lack of utilizing the next-gen-ness of blu-ray by default in the XBOX360.
Microsoft opted for HD-DVD as their medium, which provides a substantially smaller capacity than the fledgling blu-ray technology.
According to Hirai blu-ray is the wave of the future, and they are building the PS3 to reflect a system that will not simply be replaced in 5 years once it's outdated. Also, Hirai seemingly bashed Microsoft for possibly having to use multiple discs since their supported medium holds so much less.
So, my view here is that doesn't Hirai remember a little company called Square Soft? When was the last time they released a good game that was on one disc? I'm thinking back to when they were making games on cartridges.
Sure, having one disc is nice and all, but Hirai avoided answering the big flaw with blu-ray... the speed. Sony has gone with blu-ray, and as far as any knows, a 1xblu-ray, which is substantially slower than the 12xHD DVD drive the 360 is toting. Can anyone say load times?
I'd take faster gameplay speeds and less loading times over the joy? of having only one disc per game any day of the week.
Likewise, to play games at a DVD comparable rate the PS3 will basically be running ahead of where you're playing thanks to it's hefty processor, and then will buffer the data. So Sony is basically compensating for a lack luster gaming media by overclocking themselves.
Buy a Wii.
\\drew
Microsoft opted for HD-DVD as their medium, which provides a substantially smaller capacity than the fledgling blu-ray technology.
According to Hirai blu-ray is the wave of the future, and they are building the PS3 to reflect a system that will not simply be replaced in 5 years once it's outdated. Also, Hirai seemingly bashed Microsoft for possibly having to use multiple discs since their supported medium holds so much less.
So, my view here is that doesn't Hirai remember a little company called Square Soft? When was the last time they released a good game that was on one disc? I'm thinking back to when they were making games on cartridges.
Sure, having one disc is nice and all, but Hirai avoided answering the big flaw with blu-ray... the speed. Sony has gone with blu-ray, and as far as any knows, a 1xblu-ray, which is substantially slower than the 12xHD DVD drive the 360 is toting. Can anyone say load times?
I'd take faster gameplay speeds and less loading times over the joy? of having only one disc per game any day of the week.
Likewise, to play games at a DVD comparable rate the PS3 will basically be running ahead of where you're playing thanks to it's hefty processor, and then will buffer the data. So Sony is basically compensating for a lack luster gaming media by overclocking themselves.
Buy a Wii.
\\drew
posted by Drew at 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
Dude, last good game by Square, single disk, FF Tactics. I can't believe you nubbed that one, hahah.
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