Oblivion will make extensive use of the PS3's hard drive by caching multiple gigabytes of data, which helps with load times. Bethesda's Pete Hines has commented that recent reports of data duplication on the PS3 Oblivion disc have been exaggerated, and this technique isn't different from the similar strategy that was employed in the creation of the Xbox 360 game last year. Lastly, it's unclear if or when the PS3 will see the Shivering Isles content that's on the way to the PC and Xbox, though with a burgeoning PlayStation Network and plenty of unfilled hard drive space, it's not hard to imagine the expansion can be made available to PS3 owners somewhere down the road.
IGN : How does the new The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, released in 2025 for Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, Steam, and PS5, compare to the original 2006 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion released on Xbox 360, played via Xbox Series X/S Backwards Compatibility?
With The Elder Scrolls 6 still far into the future fans have been taking matters into their own hands with projects like Skyblivion.
Skyblivion remakes Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, and the huge mod is nearing completion, but the team could use some assistance.
they say its the hd that speeds up loading..ok so my hd equipt 360 could or does do this too.
(are the load speed comparisons confirmed faster on ps3 compared to hd equipt premium 360 or not as i have only read seem to be faster....! or are they comparing the ps3 version to the core 360)
there is a rendering patch coming to oblivion on 360 and pc that fixes the distant texture draw talked about in this article.( obviously not mentioned in this article as they are bigging up ps3)
the 360 and pc had it a year ago plus have add ons and the new expantion pack.
the other thing of note in this article is that data duplication was used on 360 too !!!
so dvd9 can do oblivion (which is huge as stated in this article) at 720p with all that audio and data duplication !?!
this to me was the most interesting thing in this article.
what do ps3 and 360 fans think ?
Helps developers like Bethesda out a lot. Having more room is always a plus as well. Complaining about more storage capacity equals complaining that developers are getting more freedom.
the point is sony told us we had to have it for the games.
it made the ps3 expensive.
bethesda have shown that we dont need it.
more space is nice but so is an affordable console.
i think everyone knows its movie format domination that blu-ray is in ps3 the benefit to games is not there.
if most ps3 games load to the hard drive anyway the only benefit blu-ray offers is that you can have the same disc in your ps3 from the beginning to the end of a game without changing disc.
(does anyone do this ?)
i for one tend to have 2 or 3 games on the go such as oblivion (1 player) then GOW (multiplayer) ect.
"This leads us on to DLC content. Yes, tracks will be made available after the release of Forza 2, the ones they couldn’t fit on the disc initially. So although the 12 environments may sound a little disappointing in terms of volume of content, that will increase. Whether you will have to pay hasn’t been decided yet, and whether you want to pay or not is entirely your decision."
12 tracks and the DVD9 is already full LOL have fun downloading to your 20GB HDD
Yep. Once again, the PS3 nay sayers are proven wrong. They can only hold tight to their noisy, inferior DVD playback, XBOX 360 and make more excuses. We don't need it, they will cry. Well I'm happy for them, because they won't miss the definitive version of Oblivion. With better visuals, better loading times, expansion packs. The whole reason we wanted Blu-ray in the first place.