Penny-Arcade- interesting note about MGS4 install times

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starcraft said:

darthdevidem01 said:
ok..I understand now....this will pose a problem to my plan of showing the best bits of the game to my friends.

Is there now a way to lock a certain install

Fiddle around to try and find it, but at this stage it isn't looking like it.

If this becomes a trend for console games, thats just ridiculous.

Lol, if its like this for MGS4, imagine Killzone 2.

 

 

Killzone 2 is 1st party, so it will probably go the Uncharted/Ratchet & Clank route - no installs and very little loading.

Hell, back when they released the E307 demo the devs said that they had yet to implement texture streaming (used heavily in R&C and Uncharted, hence the little loading), which is why the textures improved so much from the E307 demo to the demo shown this past May.

It's really awesome the way Sony's 1st party studios (and 2nd, in the case of Insomniac) work together to get the best out of the ps3.  All their studios are constantly sharing tech (and sometimes even actual developers, lol).