New XBOX360 and PS3 Games Disks
Posted on Apr 17, 2009 under Game Consoles | Comments are offI feel both XBOX360 and PS3 will have many more challenges to come after new disks are introduced into the market. One currently being developed by Fujitsu is an HVD. HVD stands for holographic video disk. What’s the great thing about this new video disk? If your answer is size, then your exactly right. The new disk due to be released between 2012 and 2015 will blow blue ray disk sizes out of the water with a whopping 3.9 terrabytes of disk space. That’s not a typo, 3.9 terrabytes of disk space will soon be available for game makers to utilize for high detail character features as well as extra programming to allow those characters to do more. Not only that but scenes can be in true HD throughout the game. No more having to reload scenes as the player moves through a jungle. It could be said it might even change the way games are programmed. The only problem they are running into is with the drive needed to read the disks. They would have to be read at DVD disk speeds to be able to send all the information to the console without hanging up. One way researchers are testing is to actually spin the laser around the disk since such speed would shred a typical disk at the speeds required to collect that much information. Either way, look for the PS3 to prevail when this disk comes out to the ability to upgrade and use the disks. A PS3 was specially designed with 8 cell processors inside capable of 32 gigflops of video processing. Current games are not even utilizing but around 4 of these processors right now. Xbox360 was rushed out onto the market in an attempt to capitalize on the market being created by the PS3. What does this mean to current XBOX360 owners? Well, lets just say there might be a new XBOX coming out with the new technology. Who knows they might even call it the XBOX Evolution.
