Sony have come back to Microsoft' s Ozymandias comments about PS3 having longer loading times because of Sonys decision to use a 2 x Blu-Ray drive rather than a 12 x DVD drive. They aren' t however disputing it, they' re agreeing.

Mark Deloura, FORMER Sony Relations Manager (now working for Ubisoft) and stringent Sony defender had this to say...

" 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."

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This whole thing started last week with Insomniac announcing that their PS3 title Resistance: Fall of Man would use up 22 GB, and Kaz Hirai saying that Microsoft will end up putting games on multiple discs due to DVD9' s size constraints.

One or two of us here have had this debate before and came to the exact same conclusion but it' s nice to hear our thoughts from months ago echoed publically by these guys.

Take a look at Ozymandias and Mark DeLoura' s blogs and read the respective posts for yourselves.

Ozymandias

Mark DeLoura' s



So Blu-Ray was the right decision in terms of capacity but the drawback is that the games will have longer loading times.