greenmedic88 said:
Zappykins said:
greenmedic88 said:
Kind of a myopic point of view, but understandable.
How many people on VGC are current users of Steam? There you go. Media-less gaming functioning today. Functioning years ago. I've been doing the vast majority of my PC gaming on Steam since about 2007.
"Unlimited" HDD storage for game installs and the idea of having installer disks that have to be in the DVD tray for the security DRM check suddenly seems like a big annoyance. However, I do not maintain several terabytes worth of HDD space simply so I can have the convenience of immediate access to the terabytes worth of games that are in my Steam catalog. I have to pick and choose which ones I want to keep installed because gaming is not the only thing I use my PC or Mac for.
When it comes to my consoles, it's even less practical to have all my games installed, not that they would even fit on a 500GB HDD or a 1TB HDD. So until consoles are able to network with a home server that has TB worth of game data installed on it, sorry... but optical media must remain. Either that or it's choose which games you have immediate access to or simply don't buy/play so many games, which is no solution at all.
While I like, make that love, the ability to access my entire catalog of games from any PC with Steam installed on it, I still have to go through the process of downloading and installing before I can play anything, which sometimes takes hours.
And as long as console media functions as more than just a PC style installer/DRM check, give me the BD disks that don't have to install everything onto a console HDD. It's not that I like staring at all those game boxes lined up on my shelves, but until consoles grant access to unlimited local storage, or networks with the ability to grant access to full game downloads and installs faster than it takes to insert a disk and do a partial install, I don't want to ditch high capacity media. |
So you are going to skip the PS3, PS4 and Xbox One? As all of those do that.
It's acutally for the benifit of the developers. They complained about the requirment of having to run of a disk on the Xbox 360.
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The PS3 doesn't. If you own one, you should already know this. Many of the games require installs, but it's very rare when those reach, much less exceed 1GB. Typically, installs, when required, are much smaller.
PS3 games purchased through the PSN Store and installed via DD are the only expections, which is a given.
I already read the reports that XB1 game discs are only installers and that everything must be on the HDD. Unconfirmed, but if so and space becomes an issue due to 10GB + game installs, either MS has an answer for those who plan on having more than 40 games installed or I can put off a purchase of one until they do.
Feel free to post the link confirming that the PS4 is using the same full game install set up as the XB1. That's the first time I've heard this.
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You confirm it in your own text that the PS3 games must be installed. You seem to want to dismiss it, but that doesn't make it untrue. This is because the Blu-ray data transfer is slower than a good DVD transfer rate when the PS3 was made.
Sony already confirmed you can play once a certain level of the game is installed. Microsoft as also confirmed you can play the game as it is installing as well. This is a good thing for developers. If Sony lets you run games from the Disk without any install, they they would hamper the PS4's abilities.
The Xbox 360 was help back because developers had to insure that all games could be run without a hard drive. (Grand Theft Auto V being the first game to get around this restriction (perhaps cause the generation is over? - but you can just pop in a flash drive.)
I am not follow why do you think it's a bad thing to run off a hard dive? Is it just running out of hard drive space?
