ps3 faster load times eat up hard disk space
October 31st, 2006 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
While using a small amount of hard disk space to cache a portion of game content is a trick long used by the Xbox 360 and pretty much all PC games, it’s been revealed that some PS3 games would be using a very significant portion of the console’s hard drive to speed performance.
For example, Ridge Racer 7 will use up to 5GB of hard disk space to speed load times, while Genji will use about 4 GB of space. Sony is says there will be an option to copy game files to to console’s hard drive when you first install a game. After this initial installation procedure, games should load significantly faster. Obviously, the real issue here is the amount of available drive space. With the $499 model touting a paltry 20GB hard drive, you’ll only be able to pre-load a handful of games before running out of disk space. The $599/60GB model will fare a bit better, but if you plan on downloading music, videos and game content, I’ll bet our drives will be full before we know it. I’ve long theorized that the high capacity of Blu-ray disks, combined with the fact that it’s a first-generation technology would result in slow load times for the Playstation 3. I’m guessing that’s the reason that so much content will need to be offloaded to hard disk.
[via DailyTech]
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October 31st, 2006 comments (7): stumble it! digg it! by: technabob
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Very cool
Michael
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Thanks! It’s nice to hear positive feedback. Checked out your blog and thought it was cool too.
typical poor design blu ray is slow and unsuited to games streaming loading poor compression hard to programme its ps2 all over again
wii offers a all new experiance and lightning fast loadtimes priority disc drive designed for wii game loading and a super fast flash drive backing it up its caled CURRECT CONSOLE DESIGN ITS DESIGNED TO DO A SET JOB WELL NOT PLAY MOVIES
NINTENDO FOREVER
yah also ps3 has the greatest graphics and wii has the graphics of the a windows 95 comp
There is no comparison between the PS3 and the Wii. They are both incredibly fun machines which each have their own pro’s and Con’s.
You can upgrade your ps3 hard-drive easily so if you plan to copy the files it wouldn’t take up much room. also i think people are getting a bit picky about load times; in genji it’s a difference of 12 to 4 seconds. ‘oh no.’ dvd obviously reads a ton faster than blu-ray in this early stage but it cant hold nearly as much and that’s why the 50gb capacity doesn’t need to speed up your load times by 8 seconds while you play for 5 hours. it has room to improve graphics and add more content. and for the wii lover, the graphics looks like a ps2 and it struggles to load any big game like super smash brothers: brawl.
When I wrote this article back in 2006, it was pretty much speculative. I’ve had a PS3 since November 06 now, and other than the initial setup time to pre-load content to the hard drive, it’s as speedy as any other console I’ve played.