Going off of the gamespot.com (not joystiq) graph, the 12x speed (full disc) is about a 4x blu-ray drive.
Many people expect the discs to be the full 9gb (that is why we are going with blu-ray for sony right?), so I assume it hits the full speed.
The only problem is...the speed they go with right now, is probably the speed they are going to have to stay with for the life of the console. You cant go with a 2x now, 2 years from now upgrade to 4x. What is the point? Developers cant expect to see a 4x drive, when you have the possibility that the majority (assume most people buy it at the beginning) have a 2x drive. So you are calling for 150 megabits/sec, when most consoles can only get 75 megabits/sec.
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Matt Gerlach @ Feb 11th 2006 9:58PM
Going off of the gamespot.com (not joystiq) graph, the 12x speed (full disc) is about a 4x blu-ray drive.
Many people expect the discs to be the full 9gb (that is why we are going with blu-ray for sony right?), so I assume it hits the full speed.
The only problem is...the speed they go with right now, is probably the speed they are going to have to stay with for the life of the console. You cant go with a 2x now, 2 years from now upgrade to 4x. What is the point? Developers cant expect to see a 4x drive, when you have the possibility that the majority (assume most people buy it at the beginning) have a 2x drive. So you are calling for 150 megabits/sec, when most consoles can only get 75 megabits/sec.