Microsoft sides with Nintendo in fight vs Sony

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

I had an unbiased reply typed up earlier today, but yannow, with this beyond annoying "Server is too busy" message, I'm getting tired of this. The boards aren't even that heavily used, comeon.

Good for MS, maybe good for Ninty. Sony will do its own thing.

In 2-3 years, a 2x Blu-Ray player will be bleh I imagine. 2x dvd players are bleh. 2x cd-rom players are crippling.

Its too early...

jonbo... thoes arent measured in the same way... the #X is just the speed at which the disc is spinning. DVD's take in a lot more data in 1 spin then a CD can... so it doesnt need to spin as fast as a CD. thats like saying a 16X DVD is way way slower then a 56X CD. its just totally different.

granted a 2x does sound slow, but bluray reads much much faster. so the disc doesnt need to spin as fast and the system doesnt need to work to keep it spinning at that speed. it helps everything. i think a 2x bluray is pretty much equal to a 16xDVD. i had read something on it being faster.

now no doubt they'll prolly make a 4x Bluray drive eventually... but i dont see it going that much higher. wouldnt do it any good to spin that fast.