Michael Kimb Jones

The much publicised spat between Andre Vrignaud (Ozymandias weblog and Microsoft developer) and Mark Deloura (Satori weblog and former head of Sony Developer Relations) was recently brought to my attention thanks to Major Nelsons blog.

The large hazy post has some very interesting points, if you care for that sort of thing (and sadly I do). But for Mr Joe Nobody on the street who occasionally likes to knock back a few video games there is only ONE real point of interest:

Sony announced that PS3 uses a 2x BD drive, which is 72Mbits/second or 9MB/second. The Xbox360 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. (Note that the PS3 drive will do 8x DVD, and even that is faster than 2x BD.)

• Read the whole article here

??!? Yes, BluRay on the PS3 will makes your games load SLO-W-ERRR than regular DVD! ??! Now, I don’t plan on getting PS3 (not right away anyhow) but for the Sony Fanboys it cant be getting much worse.

I have no idea why Sony haven’t balked at the idea of using BluRay yet. Its caused them delays, price hikes and now technical shortcomings!

The PS3 seems to be doing for Sony what “New Coke” did for Coca-Cola - drive their customer base totally insane!