bbsin on 05 June 2008
| dbot said: I am not sure why installs are treated as a negative. Thank God Sony put a hard drive into the PS3. If the 360 had a hard drive, you would "have" to install games also. As it stands now, multi-plat developers need to work around this limitation on the 360. I think you are seeing some problems with aggressive caching on the 360 causing the chronic freezing issues on that platform. Again, a 1 time install and cut scenes = no problem. |
Not necessarily, the 360's disk read/ stream rate is much faster than the bluray drive's on the PS3. The only reason why the 360 would ever "require" installations is if a DVD isn't enough and multiple disks are out for the question for the devs. However, there are ways to get decent data streaming without installations though. Both Naughty dog and Insomniac spans the data multiple times on the bluray disk (since there's so much space) to avoid mandatory installations.
