ArnoldRimmer said:
Sorry, but that's nonsense. There are very good reasons for mandatory installs (as opposed to: mandatory updates). The only reason Xbox 360 originally didn't allow for mandatory installs was the lack of storage space on the cheap Arcade/etc. models without harddisk drives. But since there are very good reasons for mandatory installs, Microsoft was actually forced to quietly cancel this policy right in the middle of the Xbox 360 generation. So it's not that Sony did a mistake on the PS3 that will be fixed on the PS4 - exactly the contrary, it was Microsoft who did a mistake in the beginning of this generation, and that will be fixed next-gen with the Xbone by having the same policy on mandatory installs that PS3 always had. |
There's nothing "nonsense" about it.
The BR drive is slow. This is common knowledge. The mandatory installs are needed to improve what would otherwise be terrible load times. This is also common knowledge. What we saw at the start of the generation were developers loading up the BR discs with unneeded, redundant data so that the actual content you'd be needing to accessing could be more quickly accessed. Then they started just making us install content on the HDD. Some games make it optional, some games require it. Yeah, there are good reasons to have installations. Like reduced loading times, and less use of your BR drive. But they exist because the BR drive is slow. That's why so many are mandatory on PS3 and optional on 360. On 360 they are more of a compromise for the size of the DVD format.
It's a mistake Sony made which will be fixed by a faster BR drive.
