The whole of point of this generation of games, was to install on the hdd. I wonder if the people who wanted to install a portion of a game to the hdd, are they the same one’s complaining about the mandatory install??????

# disintrested says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm

Sagarat is Right, there is no validity to this article is just a pointless rant.

so you have to install onto the hard drive. It improves loading times and besides, don’t forget the pc has been doing and I never heard anyone complain about that. As a matter of fact, I believe the complaint was actually needing the cd to run.

cheers

I find these two comments quite funny. Firstly the mandatory install defeats a the point of the games console and b one of the draws of the console. NOT needing an install was the joy! Its a pain to have to install games…not just the sitting around waiting but also it takes up space. If all the games need an install then how long before you cant play any new games without losing the ability to play one of your other games?

Plus the argument about the need for cds is that if you install all the game data onto the pc then why do you need the disc. Not the need for one in the first place. Besides, this is set to change as Microsoft are writing into their OS’s the ability to play straight from disc. I am sure most (desktop) pc gamers wont care as now huge HDs are cheap and its easy to install several of them, plus HDs read quicker than cds.

so you have to install onto the hard drive. It improves loading times and besides, don’t forget the pc has been doing and I never heard anyone complain about that. As a matter of fact, I believe the complaint was actually needing the cd to run.

cheers

The only cause that I can theorise from the article is that Blu-Ray has a higher seek time that DVD, due to the varing the spin rate when jumping to different sectors. That makes sence, but since Patrick Klepek never actually talkes about seek times, we can not know for sure. What a waste of time.

Oh well it dosent matter, Im stoned

And after recounting, BD still had significantly more studio support, and Sony got far more BD players into people’s homes than Toshiba got HD-DVD players. Recount results … BD still won over HD-DVD. Though, it’s not even a matter of counting anything … Toshiba quit.

I was fairly annoyed that I had to install over 2GB of data onto my PS3 to play a rented game (Heavenly Sword) … but not annoyed enough to care. Of course, having to immediately do an update meant it was 10 minutes before I was even able to get to the game’s main menu screen and made the whole thing more annoying. A game I’m glad I rented because 8 hours later I was watching the ending credits.

Though, putting in a couple minutes of install time at the beginning to save loading times through the entirety of the game is an acceptable compromise to me.