This is certainly an interesting observation at the least. I suspect that since PS3 developers know that the hard drive is always present in a PS3, they move a ton of stuff to the HD to reduce load times. I was just going through game saves on my 360 last night and deleting some and was surprised that the files were 6MB or bigger. I didn't think it took that much to save some "statistics"...
I'll leave the true technical reasoning to those that know, but the first question that comes to mind (for me, anyway) is does this have anything to do with the speed at which the Blu Ray can deliver content -- i.e. not fast enough for some parts of the game?
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Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
