Why are save games so big on the PS3?

[jman8]

sieanr said: Don't forget all the bitching over the 2 versions of the 360, or the complaining about a multimedia machine as opposed yo dedicated console. And of course the issue of price

I'm still complaining about the two versions of the 360. One without a hard drive means developers often cannot develop their games to heavily utilize a hard drive. I highly doubt PS2/3 fans were dissing the "multimedia machine" idea considering the DVD functionality was a huge selling point for the PS2, and we've known Sony was including a blu-ray drive in the PS3 for close to 3 years now.

quartz said: Right, so it's to reduce loading times...I guess the HDD will fill up fast then if you have a few games like this .

And why is it a bad thing to use a hard drive to reduce load times? Sure it takes up 2gb of space on the hard drive, but do you really need to have 10+ games with reduced load times? It's not like the game is unplayable without the hard drive dump.