| endimion said: from my understanding full install is mandatory this gen because tranfer rate of the disc drive is too slow compared to the HDD and other parts of the consoles to be able to run from discs....
and well download I don't really see the issue, I'll just launch the DL at midnight (if we can preorder even better) which would mean I would actually get the game probably earlier than if I bought it physically because I buy online most of the time and even if I go to a local store I never do the midnight line and rarely go the D day.... and I'm pretty sure that is the case for a huge chunk of the gamers population... heck I even get a 6 hour head start since I use US XBL and I live in europe.... so all in all DD will allow me to get games faster than I do today with physical discs... |
Yes, mandatory installs will probably remain, but still in the current range of 3 to 10 GB max we see on PS3 games. Games will jump to 30 to 50 GB in size, so we can assume that a 2 TB drive will retain around 45 games and thats a pretty decent amount of games. I'm not so sure about external drives, since games will use disk installs to stream data of both sources (disk and BD), like GTA V, and will require high transfer speeds.
