I got a PS3 (initial impressions)

[Onyxmeth]

windbane said:

Onyxmeth said:

Now to some things I don't like:

1. Content-It's just not there. There are less demos on PSN by a wide margin. A lot of PSN games don't have demos and I find that to be a bit odd. Every XNA and XBLA game has a demo mandatory and I would have expected Sony to make them mandatory also. Guess not.

3. Downloading-It's takes forever. It took my over an hour to download the 2.1 patch for MGO today, and that was all for naught, so it was especially annoying. Demos take a good 40 minutes for approx 700MB-1GB of demo. That's before the install, which I find to be very annoying. If I go away while my PS3 downloads demos, I'll still need to sit through an install process, which is like 4 minutes itself once I'm back. Couldn't that have all been done in one fell swoop?

Overall though, these are minor things, and don't take away from what really matters, which is kicking ass in Warhawk. Warhawk rules!

1. I'd rather the games come out faster than requiring them all to have demos. Reviews are usually more telling than demos, anyway, because demos are a very small sample. LotR: Conquest was a fun demo/beta...

3. As someone else said, the MGO patch is Konami, not PSN. Demos download at my max internet speed most of the time, so I'm not sure what your issue is. Also, if you don't download in the background, the demo will install automatically after it downloads. It doens't do that with background downloads so you can keep downloading instead of installing at the same time (which is possible but both slow down).

 

1. Well if having no demos meant PSN had more content it may be more forgiveable, but there are almost three times as many games on XBLA and they all have demos. Plus there's the problem that they can't be rented, so it's either demo it or just dive right in. Luckily there are some PSN games that have demos, and when I get my PSN cards, those developers that took the time to make one will be the one's I look towards to purchase.

3. I'm just going to time a demo or two between my two consoles and see if I get a difference. I've never DLed the same demo twice, so maybe I've just had a run of bad luck on my PSN with demos that DL slowly. I still don't get the reasoning for needing an installation process. Even with background downloading, that could have been put into the download itself.