Assassin's Creed guys (Nicholas Cantin and Alex Drouin). It's in Dutch, so translation mine:

OPM: How's your experience with the storage media of the PS3, the HDD and the BluRay disc? And do you have any comparable experience with HD-DVD technology?

M.M.: Our focus is 100% BluRay, so I cannot compare with HD-DVD. I can only say that the new BluRay disc format is truly awesome. The capacity is immense, and the Data Transfer Rate is way beyond what we are used to. And that's really important, because Data Streaming (OPMED: where the console constantly loads new data from disc) is truly the only way to push next-gen games to the limit. The Playstation 3 HDD is something that we have so far given less attention to, because it hasn't been certain all that long yet that it will be standard on every console. Decreasing load-times by copying a part of the game to the HDD is one possibility, though it doesn't matter all that much for a streaming game like ours. But there are tons of other applications, such as the possibility to as it were record your whole game, to be able to watch a replay of it later on. We intend to use the HD optimally, but how, I can't tell yet currently.

Also interesting is this question:

OPM: What do you think about the performance of the graphics chip, the Nvidea RSX?

M.M.: The RSX-chip is also a beast. Not only is it incredibly fast, but just like in the PS2 you can have each Cell-core cooperate with the RSX independently. Other graphics chips also have decent Noraml Mapping- and Shader-capabilities, but RSX adds a lot of additional specialised filters and possibilities, leading to fabulous results in the graphics department. And what is really convenient is that Nvidia has been a market-leader for years, and everyone knows the technology and way of thinking through-and-through. This decreases the learning process considerably.


Dicen que la capacidad del blu-ray es inmensa, la transferencia de data es mas de lo ke ellos esperaban, el Streaming de la data tambien ayuda a llevar a los limites a los juegos next gen.

-Podrian usar el HDD para hacer los tiempos de carga mas rapidos, pero al parecer no importa mucho para su juego que se basa en el streaming dice el tio (y lo comprendo ya ke como la capacidad del blu-ray es mucha podrian copiar la misma data en distintos sectores del disco para hacer ke el Streaming sea super eficaz).

-Podrian implementar el HDD para grabar videos del gameplay y luego verlos hay.

-El RSX es una bestia, y todo lo demaz.

-El tiempo de aprendizaje no sera tanto por ke es una Nvidea (y todos conocen como trabaja)

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