Finally! A lot of people have been complaining about all these mandatory installs. And its good to see a company get things right. Fallout 3 will not have any mandatory installs. So that will free up space for the other mandatory installs.
Most PlayStation 3 owners are fully aware of this growing trend of the mandatory install. Several of the most popular games to date have required the gamer to sit and wait for 5-10 minutes while a certain amount of data is stored on the hard drive. Grand Theft Auto IV, Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds and Devil May Cry 4 are just three recent examples.
So we're used to it. But that doesn't mean every major title is going to require an install before play. According to TheGameReviews, Bethesda has said there will not be any such thing for their upcoming and highly anticipated game, Fallout 3.
"We do not do that, no. We put the stuff down there that we need to be there, we can stream it in and out of there but we do not do the ‘we need ten minutes of your time.’ We will cache the same way on both (Xbox 360 and PS3) we basically just like everybody you know if you have a hard drive, it does this."
Bethesda did this in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, too. So at least there will be one big-time title this year that won't require any extra space on the HDD, although we probably shouldn't complain. Even though MGS4 will take 4.6GB of space, that won't be a problem for most PS3 users. The system hasn't been out that long, first of all, and second of all, with HD sizes of 40, 60, and 80GB, it might take a little while to actually fill 'em up.
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reading data off a blu-ray disk takes a bit longer then a DVD9
these installs cut down load times by doing this,it helps with large games
GTA4 for example has some shorter load times and less pop-in at a loss of 3 gigs of HDD
i wish people would stop bitching, its not like ps3 HDDs aren't upgradeable
"And its good to see a company get things right." What are you talking about dude? People just love to nitpick and complain every chance they get, not even caring to realize when someone is doing them a service. What, do you think companies have a mandatory install because they are lazy or because they don't know what they are doing?
No installs what so ever and no loading time what so ever. Except for when loading your game from the start menu.
And at below, this is good? I don't understand half of it lol.
It doesn't have a mandatory install, but it might have an optional one, perhaps?
Edit: Love getting thumbed down for something that is bound to happen, they only do these installs to cope with the slow disc format... Blu-Ray is slow when the file size is large, you don't think they make these installs mandatory to spite every PS3 owner do you?