Question #1: Mandatory Installs are to Global Warming as LittleBigPlanet is to What?
Yesterday, I bought Far Cry 2 for the Playstation 3. I popped the Blu-ray disc in, and had to wait a while for yet another mandatory install, this one 3.2 gigabytes out of my larger-than-normal 60 GB PS3. Ever since Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4, we've had to take a chunk out of our PS3 hard drives every time we purchase a new big game in order to keep their load times nice and short. Well, like global warming, we have to stop this irresponsible behavior. These games are forcing my PS3 to take one more for the team just so their specific game can load faster, and I have to start deleting my old downloaded games and getting rid of my music to make sure I have enough space for the next one. Eventually, these five gig installs just won't be possible anymore, as my PS3 will be full to brimming with whatever mandatory installs put on it.…
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26 - Beldin
+1 for cheap storage. This is not Sony's problem, they have created a great system with lots of storage off the shelf and a very easy option to upgrade that storage if needed. If your to impatient for these simple installs talk to the developers, they're the ones that make the games.
27 - jamie
i think installs are great because they let us take advantage of system hardware that never existed in previous console versions. if the install did not improve the gameplay NO developer would ever require it.
stop complaining and enjoy the fact that your version works better than that of the competition.
28 - Dante K-7
Alternatives, Alternatives...
What Alternatives?
Just put any 2.5" HDD in your PS3. Mine is 500Gb 4 now, more than enough!
Cheers!
29 - Shendow
For dumbass that can't read or seem to get their heads out of their ass. The PS3 runs a SATA HDD, which means yes it is running a computer laptop Hard Drive and for the other dumb people. No its not hard to intstall -_- as long as you got the brains....which so far I don't think some of the people do.
P.S. Red Ring Of Death is a new add on coming soon to your 360 :)
30 - DJ
Wow, could you please give this a rest. I'm sure you'll be the first one all excited when the 360 offers it's installs.
Bottom line is that the installs are necessary to stream data quickly. The games will suffer without them and developers would be doing the same thing on the 360 if hard drives were garaunteed.
So please stop trying to make an indirect argument for an optional hard drive. Let's move forward with technology.
31 - Tom
I can't believe all of these comments.
"Go stick a 320gb drive in"
WHY THE F*** SHOULD I HAVE TO!?
Sony should either have put a faster drive in the PS3 in the first place or sort out this mandatory install crap.
32 - Shendow
Its called 3rd party support [Steady on there, old chap. Comments Editor] which means they are making it cheaper for you and the 160GB is coming out but thats going to be $599 most like. Its all about using that thing god give you...you know? your brain.
33 - John Doe
Dude, are all these guys in here fags and don't have lives or something? "Just stick a 320 gb hard drive and stop whining already!" WTF are you talking about!?! Yes, you can do that and that's all great but do I need to go purchase more hardware for a console I shelled out about $600 for? I have both the 360 and PS3 and to be honest I have WAY MORE games on the 360 than PS3 and it's for these reasons. Rachet and Clank didn't make me have to wait and take a chunk out of hard drive. Neither did Uncharted. Funny thing is that people make it sound so easy and I bet it is but should we have to? F-ing retards commenting on this site. So you mean to tell me that if I go to Best Buy and am looking to purchase a PS3 the guy is going to be like "Well, you want an HDMI cable, an extra controller would be nice, and an external hard drive to upgrade your capacity." I hated doing this every act for MGS4. I loved the game but it was just every time a new act started. This article is good and needs smarted people commenting on it. It is because BD read times are slower but Resistance did it, Rachet did it, Uncharted did it, Ninja Gaiden Sigma did it. WTF!!!
34 - Shendow
BD is slow [personal attack deleted], your 360 is running the samething the PS2 runs. DVD!!! you problem don't even know how to work your PS3, let alone put it at is best and its not a external hard drive [personal attack deleted]. Its a SATA 2.5 inch, you really own a PS3 then you would know this by reading the manual that came with the system. But some 360 owns I guess can't read or something.
35 - Shendow
P.S. 360/PS3 owners mostly sell their 360 when they can't keep wasting money on Xbox Live or other crap for it and because the PS3 has free online more people keep it then the 360. Which makes the PS3 as well as the Wii, the two best low costing systems.
36 - some guy
To the person at number 10 that said he works at bestbuy... they cost a lot less at any actual computer store.It also does not matter how many usb ports you have because you are installing the larger harddrive internally.
I would rather install all the information on to a harddrive then have the system constantly read the information off the disk burning out the laser.
37 - Poo Face
Like many others commenting on this thread, I swapped out the 60 GB HDD for a 320 GB one that I bought for $70. Quick, easy, painless... except for those tiny screws.
All my videos, pictures, music, games, save files transferred without a hitch. My trophies were another story, I had to sync them with the server because you can't copy them to an external. Initially, my Uncharted trophies didn't appear after the swap, but once I put the disc in and loaded up my saved game file, my platinum baby was right there...
I personally don't mind the mandatory installs, and I'm glad Sony had the foresight to allow users to swap out the HDD if necessary. My advice, quit whining, accept that no system will ever be perfect, and learn to enjoy gaming again.
Cheers!
38 - Jackson
The Blu-Ray Drive isn't slow . But unlike a harddrive (and much like all optical media) It wont last that long if it's over-used . There's no point re-reading the same data on an expensive blu-ray drive everytime you play a game , when you only have to use the blu-ray machine to copy the files to the harddisk - allowing you to preserve the life of your expensive blu-ray rom drive . I have a old scsi harddisk thats going on 18yrs old and it still works like a charm . I wish I could say the same about my 80's bang and olufsen cd-player . It doesn't really matter if a cheap 'lite-on' 360 dvd drive is over used because they are cheap pieces of crap that cost microsoft about $3.00 , but a state-of-the-art sony blu-ray machine . I think I'd rather wait for the game to install!! . (Why re-read the same data , over and over again on such an in-durable death-prone piece of hardware!!) .