PS3 Lost Planet - 5GB Install

[ssj12]

IllegalPaladin said:

ssj12 said:

Munkeh111 said:
@ ssj, in europe the 40GB is the only model avaliable, so that is not just for blu-ray
Anyway, even with a 60GB, the space is not going to last that long if a 5gb install is required. While I agree that in some cases it is a good thing, I do not understand why Uncharted has no install time, and yet has not loading times.

becasue Uncharted might have been beautiful but there was a ton of repeating textures through out so there wasnt a ton of different objects to load. Honestly users could easily just delete the data as the beat the games. Simple. But most games have installs. Resistance's install is ike 700Mb, COD4 I could have sworn has a small file to install. It's all a matter of how much crap needs to be streamed at once. Motorstorm very well needs a 2GB install to improve loadtimes. Simple fact is these might be larger installs then most but most have installs. Just delete data as you beat games or jsut upgrade the HDD. Or by an external HDD, a 1TB external drive is only $200 - $250.

 An external hard drive will work, but mainly for the media use of the PS3. I don't think you can install any game demo's or gamedata onto an external hard drive. However, you can backup your saved game data and I think you'd be able to use the PS3's backup feature as well for an external HDD.  

 that im not 100% sure on but i could have sworn that the PS3 reformats the drive or that demo files/etc are all encrypted/different file type.