It's time for an interesting fact.

 I know we have seen countless thread about that subject, but there something I never seen in any of these threads (maybe I missed one).

 Since I have my PS3, I really appreciate the place we have on the hard drive. In my firsts weeks I had filld 15 GB of the 45 GB. When I buy Heavenly Sword two weeks ago I decided to make some cleaning in my videos and demos, I deleted the equivalent of 2GB. But the space free in my hard drive stay the same. I was asking question to myself, when I decided to look at my games saves and was surprised to see that Heavenly Sword take....2 GB of space for games saves.

 2 GB !!!!!

Back at the EB were I work, I take the time to look on the box of PS3 games to see if HS was an exception...

Here somes interesting numbers :

 Full Auto 2 - 2 GB

Heavenly Sword - 2 GB

MLB 07 - 2 GB

NBA 07 - 3 GB

Warhawk - 810 MB

All these games are exclusives on PS3 so maybe that's a good reason for the space they take, but I made a comparison with multiplatform games :

Blazing Angels - 2 GB on PS3, 100 KB on 360

F.E.A.R - 2.5 GB on PS3, 800 KB on 360

Madden 08 - 220 MB on PS3, 11 MB on 360

Spiderman 3 ( normal edition ) - 2.6 GB on PS3, 256 KB on 360

SC Double Agent - 862 MB on PS3, 4 MB on 360

Oblivion* - 4.6 GB on PS3, 8 MB on 360

* For Oblivion I take the normal version of the PS3 and the GOY edition on the 360 with full set of expansion.

That's only a few exemples.

The total amount of space required on your PS3's hard drive for saving 57 games that we can find in stores right now = 20.76 GB !!!!!

For 116 games on 360 that are in stores now it takes 977.84 MB of space on the hard drive !!!

It takes 20 times less space for two times more games !!!!

I was hoping to have an answer from our Sony rep, but I still havn't received any answer from him about that.

I dont understand are you comparing saving with installing on harddrive? Dont own PS3 or 360.

Warhawk for me is half that but Splinter Cell: Double Agent is 7 GB

why 2 gigs for heavenly sword? why 2 gigs for any of these games, do they download game info on the HD to access it faster?

@Yojimbo He the save games on the PS3 are 20time larger than on the 360. This leads that you may have 40 more gigs on the PS3 but it doesn't help because the save games make the HDD more full than the save games on the 20 gig 360.

The reason for this is very simple.

Every PS3 sold has a hard drive, and the vast majority of these are 60 GB.  Therefore, game developers know that they can use the hard drive.  Most likely, the hard drive is used to stream game files to speed up loading times and possibly to swap resources in and out of memory during play.  Since some 360s don't have hard drives, and the vast majority of the ones that do only have 20 GB hard drives, developers use the space mainly for saved game data rather than actual bulk storage.

That's a good question. For somes games, you have to installed them on your PS3, but generally it's the frist party games that force you the installation. But for most of the games on these two platforms, I'm comparing the profile and games saving.

Like I said I was hoping any answer for this from our rep but I have nothing maybe someone can shine somes lights on that subject ???

What are you trying to say? really what is the point of this thread? Explain clearly please.

But many of these games doesn't do much on the PS3 that the 360 can't do, so why do we need to use all that space for one game that is 60 hours longs ?

You are talking about game utility data and not game saves. HS save data only takes up a couple of mb. Just uninstall the game utility data once you are finished with it. You won't loose your save data and can always reinstall it if you want to go back to the game.

Edit: Just checked. The biggest saved data utility file I have is HS at 3.7 mb. Most of the other games are less than 1 mb.