We need to be sure how this is being tested here, you need people who know their hardware etc on top of this, not just tests from random someguy X
I'm a bit of a disk enthusiast myself, my suggestion would be this.
Firstly you want a machine with 2 physical disks, not partitions or single disk. Then copy a large, sequential file (ideally 3 or 400mb) from one drive to the other (and back again) Time it, do it twice and average it.
Next copy a directory with at least 1000 files in it, from 3kb to 20mb, either way you need a large quantity of files copied across, digital camera folders would be perfect, say a gb of photos and 2 or 3000 files perhaps? Again time it from drive a to b, then b to a -twice and then average it.
Now THAT is a good test, then re-boot into Vista from XP (I'm assuming we're dual booting here) Be sure that virus scanners are disabled, superfetch, supercache, readyham, monster disk fiddler (tm) and all that general bullshit is disabled in Vista (and XP) - so that it's primarily the basic disk driver / system stuff doing this, we don't need the disk indexer skewing the results*
Once this is done and someone posts it - then we've got some definitive results.
* yes, I know those services are enabled under Vista as default, they will artificially skew the results none the less and they are options which XP doesn't support, some may argue their benefits (I disabled them) none the less for fair testing of the IO code it's best they are disabled.
Absoloute and utter cobblers, whoever started that rumour is an idiot! Seriously anyone who follows consoles knows that when they start to begin the EOL for the unit and manufacturing processes have improved DRAMATICALLY (not just slightly) then they revise.
You will not see a slimline PS3 for at least 18 more months, bare minimum.
I've been a casual member for 7 or 8 years and this is the stupidest thing they've ever done.
I only ever used ebay to buy things for the first 4 years, slowly building up a small amount of decent feedback (50 maybe) I've begun selling in the past couple of years and I can assure you as a seller, you need SOMETHING over some of these idiot buyers. Even with the situation as it is now, you STILL get people bidding for something/ winning and changing their mind, OFTEN.
I would estimate at least 10% of my transactions have problems on ebay and I've only left negative feedback twice - both times it was well deserved.
I will admit I have been stung by the blackmailers too though, I won an item, paid instantly and 21 days later my item arrived, neutral feedback was left and I received a negative for being "HORRIBLE BUYER, OMG AVOID" if I recall. Yes I do know that sucks and yes it was abused, however removing all forms of feedback for buyers is just silly. Also how does a buyer build up a good reputation on the system, if I have someone bidding on my items, I want someone experienced - specifically on the high value items.
I just sold a nintendo wii, to a guy with a feedback of 1, he hasn't paid yet and I've got one 'mumbly' email - I'm almost certain I'm going to be leaving negative feedback in a week or two.
True true, it doesn't cost that much and it doesn't ruin the computer. It does however perform ridiculously slowly considering it's predecessor, it also looks ugly as shit - and they botched the classic mode so that even when techs TRY to make it look firmilliar it still has niggling screwups, good times all round.
I think the real question about Paul is where the hell is his next blockbuster movie like Robocop or Recall? Those are absoloute gold (for my generation anyhow, just turned 30 btw) - 90% of guys my age love them!
I couldn't agree with you more, this service pack for Vista has been in discussion for about 6 months or more, the OS has only been out for what? 12 months.
It seems far more premature than XP's, perhaps I'm wrong but I just don't recall the first service pack being *this* quick, it's purely just to convince users that Vista is now 'safe'
I wouldn't be surprised if SP2 is the first decent one, even then - I'm no fan of the UI in classic mode, it's essentially useless to me.
As someone who doesn't follow politics much at all, I've been fairly exposed to this fellow thanks to Digg and general internet forum posts, he's a bit of an internet phenomenon.
I finally decided to watch some clips and interviews with the man, since some of the claims by the online supporters seemed exaggerated and ridiculous.
When I finally did watch a few interviews and did some reading my jaw basically dropped, he's probably the most logical, sensible politician I've ever heard in my life, I've never seen such honesty and what seems to be loyalty towards his country, the man just wants things to work right, he doesn't want to cock about with semantics and 'play the game' he wants to get things done.
I write this as someone from another country, but sadly too closely tied to US financials, media, politics, the US being a superpower influence all of the world, frankly I wish I could vote for this man and I don't bloody well vote in my country.
He's got my 'virtual' vote even if I can't damn well submit it. Hopefully in 8/12/16 years, the internet will be much more powerful than it is now and television / media can't influence elections as much as they do now.
I truely believe if you sat down every single American and showed them just 10 minutes of media of this man, he'd win by a landslide but sadly, too few care or too few bother to go out and look for the information.
That's not the point of my post, hence RRP The Xbox 360 is also cheaper than 569$ - that doesn't change the fact the RRP is 569$
We pay RRP 99 -> 119$ RRP for games, the Americans pay 49.99 -> 59.99$ RRP for their games.
both markets we can get deals, the sad thing is the Americans START 25% lower than us in cost on items which are basically IDENTICAL, it's not like they do a control R to replace all instances of color with colour for us now is it?
Oh god you're one of 'those' guys, convinced Steam is still shit from back early 2001 or whenever it was launched. It's a very very very different service now, if you're having problems with the latest builds of steam on a modern machine, go have your machine looked at.
Yes the steam comparison is fantastic, great example - not only that but to my knowledge Steam has just as many members as Xbox live,........ pretty good service when you think about it (and it's come a long way)
50$ US a year - but 70$ US a year for the Australians too - let alone other countries which get taken advantage of. (this is not a physical product, it needs no region coding, it needs no language changes, it's a subscription, why 20% more expensive? - sad)
I'm pointing out how cheap it comes across, maybe I will call them - but I've heard their helpdesk is far from useful (yet it was back in the XB1 days when they had barely any members)
Yes that have announced their first profitable quarter. What part of Australia don't you get? Australian games are 99$ -> 119$ (RRP) 13 months schmirteen months, you're paying for what's free on the competing platforms.
I don't feel the service is worth it and due to other issues with them not knowing how to manage a simple database (http://forums.xbox.com/17297131/ShowPost.aspx) I doubt I'll redeem the 12 month (sorry, 13 month) card sitting in my drawer.
According to Wikipedia it starts on Wednesday January 23'rd and finishes on Sunday the 27'th, that's a very small time window. Thanks to them not thinking of time zones internationally (again!), I for one happen to be away from any kind of technology for exactly that period (plus a day) - that's not cool.
I wouldn't have any serious beef except the fact that people PAID MONEY for a service which was not available to them, much like paying for electricity, cable tv, water, gas, cell phone etc.
As someone who has recently purchased a PS3 and 360 quite close to each other, I have to say the concept of me paying for the live service just feels insulting. *(AUD here)* 569$ for a premium system 99$ -> 119$ for a game (RRP) 89$ for a cheap, plastic headset*1 and 12 months of live
*USD here* 495$ for a premium system 86$ -> 103$ for a game (RRP) 77$ for a cheap, plastic headset*1 and 12 months of live
That last one on the list really strikes home, I mean I'm paying 570$ for an expensive NOISY console and I'm paying another 100$ for a game and now after I've paid for a game, I have to pay to play it online? As a long time PC gamer and very very regretably I admit one who has pirated PC games in the past, the whole notion of paying for a game means that you CAN play it online to me, you're no longer generating a CD key or cracking an executable, you've bought it and have the right to use all the features as intended.
Yes, yes I know they provide a good service with Live and yes I know infrastructure isn't free but hey Sony's service is free. Before anyone says it, it is not even HALF as bad as people claim, it may not be as good as live but it's certainly not terrible (see: Wii) Furthermore, Microsoft net a lot of sales of the Xbox 360 and it's games due to its community, Live is certainly a factor in those sales they have vs the PS3, some people get it just for the community aspect. Therefore, live isn't just making them money in subscriptions, in itself it's driving (some) of the entire value of the product and sales to the company.
So to drive the long winded point home, these people are making good money selling these systems*2 and should've planned for something to happen over Xmas, I and many others wouldn't complain if it was a free service and those who do complain certainly would likely fall on deaf ears.
Hence a 4 day window to download this game, not cool, feels very 'oh you missed your bonus? sorry' infact the entire Xbox experience so far BESIDES BEING NOISY seems very nickle and dimish. Hell 5,000,000 people trying to download this game in a 4 day window seems like they are asking for trouble to boot. Before it's said, no I don't hate the system by any means but I'm incredibly surprised at just how much I use my PS3 vs 360, based on what I read in games forums and the gaming press before buying. I allowed hype and those sources to convince me that my PS3 would be that lemon that sat idle that I impulsively purchased for games in anticipation for future use maybe. The reality is the 360 hasn't been switched on in 10 days and the PS3 is getting quite a bit of use. (oh and while I'm ranting, how nice is it that Sony's controllers use a STANDARD usb cable for charging them? just one less nickle and dime)
So, ultimately - this sucks, if you stand by this 'apology' put the bloody game up for a couple of weeks, not 4 days hoping some people miss it (I mean cmon the time window is so short, what other possible reason could they have?)
*1 = yes, that's right there's 2 regions in the world Microsoft chose to randomly 'dick' by simply not including the headset in the full package (Australia and I think Mexico?) There seems to be no real reason, they simply don't include it! further to this, Australia was one of the best supporters of the Xbox 1 and live system per capita too. Also all their documentation and web pages need to be tailored to 'oh that's right, we removed it for those guys didn't we?' and they
I agree with this, it does seem awfully soon to start mentioning this stuff, it reminds me a lot of the ME days.
My opinion? Vista is shit, plain and simple, it's not fast enough on high end hardware (no I didn't say too slow, not fast enough) it's ugly in classic mode and intrusive and the list goes on and on.
That's damn impressive, I'm 30 in a matter of days (kill me now) and when I went to school the GUI was already firmly taking its grip on things. We had C64's in primary school (19 years ago) and Apples, but within a year or two I was working with DOS 5.0, Lotus 123, only a year or two later we had 6.22, Win 311 and Works for Windows IIRC. (I myself stuck with 6.22 for ages, Windows offered me nothing that Ztree a dos prompt and my games couldn't do for me)
The fact you're 7 years younger and even saw a CLI is pretty impressive.
I've heard it is faster in the 360 yes but data per square inch most certainly helps in the noise stakes. If a blu-ray drive needs to spin the disc at 200rpm and the 360 needs to spin it at 1000rpm to acheive the same bitrate, which one will be noisier?
Perhaps the blu-ray drive is slow in the PS3, either way the developers can make use of the install feature that they do for each game as you first run it, helping even things out. Ultimately, I still end up with acceptable load times and a lot less noise.
I can tell you now that mine, while only a month old doesn't get tooooo hot and hasn't broken,... THE NOISE PROBLEM IS ANNOYING. Yes, I said problem, it's simply un-acceptably noisy, sure if you're playing Sporty Mc Loud cheer 09 or Explosion masher 12 that's fine but for an RPG or or any adventure style game, ugh!.
I got my PS3 and 360 within a week of each other (good deal here in Australia at the time) and the 360 is almost not being used at all due to the noise, it's just frustratingly loud AND it can't easily be fixed.
The PS3 is quiet for 2 fantastic reasons, 1: the developers can COUNT ON there being a hard disk inside it, so they use it, infact all games install 300 to 1000mb to the hard disk, increasing load times on the repetetive data and dropping laser wear / noise (not so the 360, thanks 'core' and 'arcade' models... sigh)
2: the data per square inch on the blu ray disks is substantially more, meaning it can spin lower and still deliver data relatively quickly.
I was playing Crackdown the other night and my g/f* called me, so I paused the game, then muted the home theatre system, I'm trying to talk to her but all i can hear is the whirr of a 16x dvd rom spinning at full speed,... big big sighs I own the premium ffsake Microsoft, FORCE the developers to code in, if there IS a HDD found, to utilize it properly - because right now all i'm hearing is dvd's spin, how that's going to go on the disc spin motor over the years who knows?
While I'm on this topic: Everyone has likely heard that GTA4 will be better on the 360 due to better game engine code, the PS3 is running it slow (or was?) Problem is, one thing GTA is RENOWNED for is the constant disc access, chirp chirp chirp on PS2 and Xbox 1, HDD flash on PC - through GTA 3/ VC and SA Do I really want the disc thrashing about on the 360 version when I could get it for my PS3 and (likely) have the developers utilise the HDD a lot better?
I must say this is stupid of Sony, I am happy to hear of the recent likely win of the HD war, at least it'll settle things for consumers in the upcoming years, one standard is better, period.
That being said in the case of this one, that's just stupid, 3cm range is absoloutely pointless, when another option 15% slower works 100x further - sounds great to me.
On that note, I've been wondering for a few years, when will we have bluetooth (or wireless usb?) devices where you simply put your mobile phone near your PC at work / home each day and an explorer window opens up with a new drive window ready to work with? (as long as it's on the allowed list, of course) - that would be great.
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We need to be sure how this is being tested here, you need people who know their hardware etc on top of this, not just tests from random someguy X
I'm a bit of a disk enthusiast myself, my suggestion would be this.
Firstly you want a machine with 2 physical disks, not partitions or single disk.
Then copy a large, sequential file (ideally 3 or 400mb) from one drive to the other (and back again)
Time it, do it twice and average it.
Next copy a directory with at least 1000 files in it, from 3kb to 20mb, either way you need a large quantity of files copied across, digital camera folders would be perfect, say a gb of photos and 2 or 3000 files perhaps?
Again time it from drive a to b, then b to a -twice and then average it.
Now THAT is a good test, then re-boot into Vista from XP (I'm assuming we're dual booting here)
Be sure that virus scanners are disabled, superfetch, supercache, readyham, monster disk fiddler (tm) and all that general bullshit is disabled in Vista (and XP) - so that it's primarily the basic disk driver / system stuff doing this, we don't need the disk indexer skewing the results*
Once this is done and someone posts it - then we've got some definitive results.
* yes, I know those services are enabled under Vista as default, they will artificially skew the results none the less and they are options which XP doesn't support, some may argue their benefits (I disabled them) none the less for fair testing of the IO code it's best they are disabled.
It's far, far too early, wait at least 18 months, current rumours are just that.
Absoloute and utter cobblers, whoever started that rumour is an idiot!
Seriously anyone who follows consoles knows that when they start to begin the EOL for the unit and manufacturing processes have improved DRAMATICALLY (not just slightly) then they revise.
You will not see a slimline PS3 for at least 18 more months, bare minimum.
I've been a casual member for 7 or 8 years and this is the stupidest thing they've ever done.
I only ever used ebay to buy things for the first 4 years, slowly building up a small amount of decent feedback (50 maybe)
I've begun selling in the past couple of years and I can assure you as a seller, you need SOMETHING over some of these idiot buyers.
Even with the situation as it is now, you STILL get people bidding for something/ winning and changing their mind, OFTEN.
I would estimate at least 10% of my transactions have problems on ebay and I've only left negative feedback twice - both times it was well deserved.
I will admit I have been stung by the blackmailers too though, I won an item, paid instantly and 21 days later my item arrived, neutral feedback was left and I received a negative for being "HORRIBLE BUYER, OMG AVOID" if I recall.
Yes I do know that sucks and yes it was abused, however removing all forms of feedback for buyers is just silly.
Also how does a buyer build up a good reputation on the system, if I have someone bidding on my items, I want someone experienced - specifically on the high value items.
I just sold a nintendo wii, to a guy with a feedback of 1, he hasn't paid yet and I've got one 'mumbly' email - I'm almost certain I'm going to be leaving negative feedback in a week or two.
We've had to use daemon tools for years, why they didn't do this sooner is beyond me because we need a GENUINE CD KEY.
Ugh.
True true, it doesn't cost that much and it doesn't ruin the computer.
It does however perform ridiculously slowly considering it's predecessor, it also looks ugly as shit - and they botched the classic mode so that even when techs TRY to make it look firmilliar it still has niggling screwups, good times all round.
I think the real question about Paul is where the hell is his next blockbuster movie like Robocop or Recall? Those are absoloute gold (for my generation anyhow, just turned 30 btw) - 90% of guys my age love them!
They don't make em like they used to.
I couldn't agree with you more, this service pack for Vista has been in discussion for about 6 months or more, the OS has only been out for what? 12 months.
It seems far more premature than XP's, perhaps I'm wrong but I just don't recall the first service pack being *this* quick, it's purely just to convince users that Vista is now 'safe'
I wouldn't be surprised if SP2 is the first decent one, even then - I'm no fan of the UI in classic mode, it's essentially useless to me.
As someone who doesn't follow politics much at all, I've been fairly exposed to this fellow thanks to Digg and general internet forum posts, he's a bit of an internet phenomenon.
I finally decided to watch some clips and interviews with the man, since some of the claims by the online supporters seemed exaggerated and ridiculous.
When I finally did watch a few interviews and did some reading my jaw basically dropped, he's probably the most logical, sensible politician I've ever heard in my life, I've never seen such honesty and what seems to be loyalty towards his country, the man just wants things to work right, he doesn't want to cock about with semantics and 'play the game' he wants to get things done.
I write this as someone from another country, but sadly too closely tied to US financials, media, politics, the US being a superpower influence all of the world, frankly I wish I could vote for this man and I don't bloody well vote in my country.
He's got my 'virtual' vote even if I can't damn well submit it.
Hopefully in 8/12/16 years, the internet will be much more powerful than it is now and television / media can't influence elections as much as they do now.
I truely believe if you sat down every single American and showed them just 10 minutes of media of this man, he'd win by a landslide but sadly, too few care or too few bother to go out and look for the information.
I list both prices and follow US news extensively, I generally post US prices so that the majority of the comment readers understand my complaint.
You could have moderated down, you just would have been stupid to have done so.
To summarize this post for the rest of us, this is why most lesbian couples rarely consist of 2 soft, petite, juicy hot chicks. :(
I purchased the 12 month card but haven't redeemed it, until I am allowed to have *MY* gamertag back, I will not be redeeming the card.
That's not the point of my post, hence RRP
The Xbox 360 is also cheaper than 569$ - that doesn't change the fact the RRP is 569$
We pay RRP 99 -> 119$ RRP for games, the Americans pay 49.99 -> 59.99$ RRP for their games.
both markets we can get deals, the sad thing is the Americans START 25% lower than us in cost on items which are basically IDENTICAL, it's not like they do a control R to replace all instances of color with colour for us now is it?
Oh god you're one of 'those' guys, convinced Steam is still shit from back early 2001 or whenever it was launched.
It's a very very very different service now, if you're having problems with the latest builds of steam on a modern machine, go have your machine looked at.
Yes the steam comparison is fantastic, great example - not only that but to my knowledge Steam has just as many members as Xbox live,........ pretty good service when you think about it (and it's come a long way)
50$ US a year - but 70$ US a year for the Australians too - let alone other countries which get taken advantage of.
(this is not a physical product, it needs no region coding, it needs no language changes, it's a subscription, why 20% more expensive? - sad)
I'm pointing out how cheap it comes across, maybe I will call them - but I've heard their helpdesk is far from useful (yet it was back in the XB1 days when they had barely any members)
Yes that have announced their first profitable quarter.
What part of Australia don't you get? Australian games are 99$ -> 119$ (RRP)
13 months schmirteen months, you're paying for what's free on the competing platforms.
I don't feel the service is worth it and due to other issues with them not knowing how to manage a simple database
(http://forums.xbox.com/17297131/ShowPost.aspx)
I doubt I'll redeem the 12 month (sorry, 13 month) card sitting in my drawer.
According to Wikipedia it starts on Wednesday January 23'rd and finishes on Sunday the 27'th, that's a very small time window.
Thanks to them not thinking of time zones internationally (again!), I for one happen to be away from any kind of technology for exactly that period (plus a day) - that's not cool.
I wouldn't have any serious beef except the fact that people PAID MONEY for a service which was not available to them, much like paying for electricity, cable tv, water, gas, cell phone etc.
As someone who has recently purchased a PS3 and 360 quite close to each other, I have to say the concept of me paying for the live service just feels insulting.
*(AUD here)*
569$ for a premium system
99$ -> 119$ for a game (RRP)
89$ for a cheap, plastic headset*1 and 12 months of live
*USD here*
495$ for a premium system
86$ -> 103$ for a game (RRP)
77$ for a cheap, plastic headset*1 and 12 months of live
That last one on the list really strikes home, I mean I'm paying 570$ for an expensive NOISY console and I'm paying another 100$ for a game and now after I've paid for a game, I have to pay to play it online?
As a long time PC gamer and very very regretably I admit one who has pirated PC games in the past, the whole notion of paying for a game means that you CAN play it online to me, you're no longer generating a CD key or cracking an executable, you've bought it and have the right to use all the features as intended.
Yes, yes I know they provide a good service with Live and yes I know infrastructure isn't free but hey Sony's service is free.
Before anyone says it, it is not even HALF as bad as people claim, it may not be as good as live but it's certainly not terrible (see: Wii)
Furthermore, Microsoft net a lot of sales of the Xbox 360 and it's games due to its community, Live is certainly a factor in those sales they have vs the PS3, some people get it just for the community aspect.
Therefore, live isn't just making them money in subscriptions, in itself it's driving (some) of the entire value of the product and sales to the company.
So to drive the long winded point home, these people are making good money selling these systems*2 and should've planned for something to happen over Xmas, I and many others wouldn't complain if it was a free service and those who do complain certainly would likely fall on deaf ears.
Hence a 4 day window to download this game, not cool, feels very 'oh you missed your bonus? sorry' infact the entire Xbox experience so far BESIDES BEING NOISY seems very nickle and dimish.
Hell 5,000,000 people trying to download this game in a 4 day window seems like they are asking for trouble to boot.
Before it's said, no I don't hate the system by any means but I'm incredibly surprised at just how much I use my PS3 vs 360, based on what I read in games forums and the gaming press before buying. I allowed hype and those sources to convince me that my PS3 would be that lemon that sat idle that I impulsively purchased for games in anticipation for future use maybe.
The reality is the 360 hasn't been switched on in 10 days and the PS3 is getting quite a bit of use.
(oh and while I'm ranting, how nice is it that Sony's controllers use a STANDARD usb cable for charging them? just one less nickle and dime)
So, ultimately - this sucks, if you stand by this 'apology' put the bloody game up for a couple of weeks, not 4 days hoping some people miss it (I mean cmon the time window is so short, what other possible reason could they have?)
*1 = yes, that's right there's 2 regions in the world Microsoft chose to randomly 'dick' by simply not including the headset in the full package (Australia and I think Mexico?)
There seems to be no real reason, they simply don't include it! further to this, Australia was one of the best supporters of the Xbox 1 and live system per capita too.
Also all their documentation and web pages need to be tailored to 'oh that's right, we removed it for those guys didn't we?' and they
I agree with this, it does seem awfully soon to start mentioning this stuff, it reminds me a lot of the ME days.
My opinion? Vista is shit, plain and simple, it's not fast enough on high end hardware (no I didn't say too slow, not fast enough) it's ugly in classic mode and intrusive and the list goes on and on.
That's damn impressive, I'm 30 in a matter of days (kill me now) and when I went to school the GUI was already firmly taking its grip on things.
We had C64's in primary school (19 years ago) and Apples, but within a year or two I was working with DOS 5.0, Lotus 123, only a year or two later we had 6.22, Win 311 and Works for Windows IIRC.
(I myself stuck with 6.22 for ages, Windows offered me nothing that Ztree a dos prompt and my games couldn't do for me)
The fact you're 7 years younger and even saw a CLI is pretty impressive.
I've heard it is faster in the 360 yes but data per square inch most certainly helps in the noise stakes.
If a blu-ray drive needs to spin the disc at 200rpm and the 360 needs to spin it at 1000rpm to acheive the same bitrate, which one will be noisier?
Perhaps the blu-ray drive is slow in the PS3, either way the developers can make use of the install feature that they do for each game as you first run it, helping even things out.
Ultimately, I still end up with acceptable load times and a lot less noise.
It will reduce load times and noise as the mechanism itself is moving less.
As for laser wear, well the laser assembly - see the PS2 which often had its one worn out due to constant access in games like GTA.
I'd comfortable call two to three common then, which is still appalling.
I can tell you now that mine, while only a month old doesn't get tooooo hot and hasn't broken,... THE NOISE PROBLEM IS ANNOYING.
Yes, I said problem, it's simply un-acceptably noisy, sure if you're playing Sporty Mc Loud cheer 09 or Explosion masher 12 that's fine but for an RPG or or any adventure style game, ugh!.
I got my PS3 and 360 within a week of each other (good deal here in Australia at the time) and the 360 is almost not being used at all due to the noise, it's just frustratingly loud AND it can't easily be fixed.
The PS3 is quiet for 2 fantastic reasons,
1: the developers can COUNT ON there being a hard disk inside it, so they use it, infact all games install 300 to 1000mb to the hard disk, increasing load times on the repetetive data and dropping laser wear / noise
(not so the 360, thanks 'core' and 'arcade' models... sigh)
2: the data per square inch on the blu ray disks is substantially more, meaning it can spin lower and still deliver data relatively quickly.
I was playing Crackdown the other night and my g/f* called me, so I paused the game, then muted the home theatre system, I'm trying to talk to her but all i can hear is the whirr of a 16x dvd rom spinning at full speed,... big big sighs
I own the premium ffsake Microsoft, FORCE the developers to code in, if there IS a HDD found, to utilize it properly - because right now all i'm hearing is dvd's spin, how that's going to go on the disc spin motor over the years who knows?
While I'm on this topic:
Everyone has likely heard that GTA4 will be better on the 360 due to better game engine code, the PS3 is running it slow (or was?)
Problem is, one thing GTA is RENOWNED for is the constant disc access, chirp chirp chirp on PS2 and Xbox 1, HDD flash on PC - through GTA 3/ VC and SA
Do I really want the disc thrashing about on the 360 version when I could get it for my PS3 and (likely) have the developers utilise the HDD a lot better?
Decisions decisions.
I must say this is stupid of Sony, I am happy to hear of the recent likely win of the HD war, at least it'll settle things for consumers in the upcoming years, one standard is better, period.
That being said in the case of this one, that's just stupid, 3cm range is absoloutely pointless, when another option 15% slower works 100x further - sounds great to me.
On that note, I've been wondering for a few years, when will we have bluetooth (or wireless usb?) devices where you simply put your mobile phone near your PC at work / home each day and an explorer window opens up with a new drive window ready to work with? (as long as it's on the allowed list, of course) - that would be great.