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SamuelRSmith on 30 December 2008
seece said:
Ail said:
Odds are that if you bought a release day Xbox360 and a release day PS3 your 360 RRODed before you filled your PS3 HDD...................

I guess thats because there were hardly any (decent) games for the PS3 eh? OH look I can come out with fanboy crap too!

 

 

 Yeah, we know you can.



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Ail on 30 December 2008

Seriously the point of this article is to tell us that over time if you try hard you can fill a HDD ?
I kinda knew that from 20 years ago from using a PC...

Does't NXE game install of Lost Odyssey take like 24 Gb anyway ?



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bdbdbd on 30 December 2008

@Chronotrigger: I didn't know PS3 had disc scratch issues. I though 360 was the only one with them.

@Ail: The 3GB you suggest is quite possible size.



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ChronotriggerJM on 30 December 2008

@bdbdbd

The 360 is the one with the scratch issues :P I was implying if I had to deal with one or the other (360, PS3), I would totally choose the one I find more harmless. The 360's disc drive is obnoxious -_-



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Feylic on 30 December 2008
Sevengen said:

     I just read through a few of the posts on a different thread, "What DON'T you like about your console"  and I just have to comment about one regarding the PS3.

It never occured to me that because of the mandatory installs, required because of the slow reading Blu-Ray drive, that eventually the HDD might fill up (depending on how many games, movies, etc...etc.. you have stored) forcing you to ERASE an older game you might not have finished or still like to play if you want to play a game you just bought.

That's absolutely insane.

So... if that scenario actually plays out for a few of you.... instead of just being able to pop in an old game that you enjoy and play it... you have to re-install it on your PS3's HDD first. What an absolutely rediculous format restriction... and yet you guys endlessly stick up for the PS3's amazing capabilities although you can't even enjoy the same basic 'gaming' functionality that the Atari 2600 gave customers back in 1977. 30 years ago.

I know...you can always buy an inexpensive upgrade to the HD, but just the fact that limitation even exists for PS3 owners is crazy to me. ANY GAME SYSTEM SHOULD PLAY THE GAME YOU PUT IN THE DRIVE WITHOUT ANY HEADACHES. PERIOD.

I'm not trying to troll here, I'm just amazed by that. That's simply crazy and if I were a PS3 owner (albeit, enjoying the likes of MSG4, LBp and Drake's Fortune) that would be more than enough to pick up the competition's console.

 

 

please stop spreading lies.



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Usul on 30 December 2008

I can wait some minutes of installation before playing a game. Most don't take too long. Ever tried PC gaming?



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Fumanchu on 30 December 2008

@ Feylic

It's all relative apparently there's a higher average read speed of the 2xBD drive than the 12xDVD drive in the 360.

But this means crappola if all the games are 'optimised' on the DVD to put the more commonly used assets of the outer edges where it can read almost twice the speed of the maximum 9MB/s on the 2x BD.

Why did you think they made installation mandatory on multi-plat games?



bdbdbd on 30 December 2008

@Chronotrigger: In that case, i misunderstood you. What i read was you saying, that "it's better for PS3 to install the games, than to let it scratch the discs".

@Fumanchu: The top speed in the 360 DVD drive is nearly double the speed of of PS3 BD drive (reading BD), but PS3:s BD drive seems to average faster.
But, the reason why "raw" data per unit is read faster by 360, is due to heavier compression rate.



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ymeaga1n on 30 December 2008
DMeisterJ said:
I have an 80 Gig PS3. Have MGS4 installed *4.4* R2 (300 mb) LBP (200 mb) TFU (three gigs?) Fifteen demos, 3 PS1 games, 2 episodes of Qore Home *3 GB* and still have 41 gigabytes of memory left.

I own 5 games.

Really, unless you play ten or twenty games concurrently, it's no problem at all.

And yes you are trolling, installs have been here since January and just now you decide it's a huge deal.

Stop failing.

LOL. What happens if you have a 40 gb PS3?

Stop failing DMJ.




ChronotriggerJM on 30 December 2008

@bdbdbd

Nah, I would much rather have every game be a mandatory install than deal with the 360's piece of crap they call a disc drive >_>;;; My friend once knocked his 360 from it's upright position to it's side, eating a disc (mass effect), and making it's disc tray open like it was missing a few teeth on the wheel xD, if at all... sadly a true story :(

Also note, the storage on Blu-disc makes streaming uncompressed audio a charm :P So that is one advantage to the Blu-ray's way of doing things. If you have uncompressed anything you can pretty much stream it from disc or so I'm told. I dunno, food for thought.

@Ymeaga Then you delete stuff off your drive that you haven't played since the launch of the console xD Or you think about upgrading to a nice 320g unit ala Fry's electronics ^^



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