Whats up with MGS4 install times?

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hanafuda said:

shams said:
Bizarre... have to be the first game ever(?) to do this - PC or console.

I really HATE how these games can't be just played from the disc itself - Wii games have no problem at all. Is the BluRay in the PS3 really that slow?

You trolling again shams?

All PS3s come with an HDD, which has a throughput of between 150 MB/s and 300 MB/s. This is way faster than the 360's DVD drive, and of course, way faster than the Wii's drive.

Would be a shame not to use it, really.

The 2 x Blu-ray drive runs at 72 Mbit/s. Much slower. No doubt later versions of the hardware will include faster drives.

This is a fairly misleading post.  The spin is strong with this one.

12x DVD drives run somewhere between 120 and 140MB/s, substantially faster than the 2 x Blu-Ray drive.  

Furthermore (and this applies both to Blu-Ray drives and HDD's) developers have to develop for the lowest common denominator of a console's installed base.  If the PS3's Blu-Ray drive gets any upgrades in future models, it can only be for media purposes, and will not in any way lead to improved games, as 14 million consoles out there (plus whatever is sold between now and the upgrade) would be unable to play them.