“Burnout Paradise” was released for the PlayStation 3’s PSN service this week, making it the first game originally offered on Blu-Ray to be issued for download.

After doing some testing, Multiplayer has determined some facts that owners of different versions of the game should know:

1) The downloadable version is only 3.3 GB, including the add-on content, which means that a pre-installed (and presumably compressed) “Burnout Paradise” wouldn’t even come close to filling up a standard DVD, let alone a 25 GB Blu-Ray. It’s no shocker that the game isn’t, say, 10GB, because it had to have been designed to be small enough to fit on a DVD. The neat thing is that, thanks to being able to see the file sizes of content available on PSN, we now know exactly how big “Burnout Paradise” really is.

2) Your save file won’t be compatible with the $30 downloadable version of the game now offered on the PlayStation Network. If, like me, you’re converting to the PSN version, you’ll be starting your “Paradise” career from scratch.

2) Load times on the PSN version are a wee bit shorter: 70 seconds from booting the game up from the PS3’s cross media bar to being able to enter the loaded game vs. 82 seconds when booting with the Blu-Ray version. (Remember, that this is the open-world racer’s only loading sequence.)

4) You don’t get a discount on the PSN version if you own the Blu-Ray version. But you do no longer have to use a disc, of course.

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