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Old May 12, 2008, 11:24 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Would that not take longer for the system to find, and then read that data off the disc? In the case of movies having all that space is great since the movie will be recorded and read in a linear fashion from that disc, but for a game, would this not cause a lot of read hashing since the system could, or rather would be loading data from different locations and layers on the same disc, because game data is not stored on an optical disc in a linear fashion?

Case in point, we already see a small amount of this with the 360 version of GTAIV, which is on a dual layered DVD. Just imagine what would happen if the game was loading from a 30+ GB full BR disc, pulling data from all over that disc on the fly... that's a damn scary thought.

As I said, for movies it's fine, but loading up a BR disc full of data? I'd hate to hear the machine that has to pull off reading that disc.
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