May 17th, 2008
Haze boasts a 4GB install before play
As part of the latest update in the ‘ask the devs’ thread over on the Ubisoft forums it has been revealed that Haze will be the latest PS3 game to have a mandatory install before you play the game – this time it is 4GB.
“You will need to go through a minimal install (about 4 Gigs)” notes the most recent update to the thread.
To be honest, judging by our experience with Devil May Cry 4 the word “minimal” would not be our first port of call to describe the recent trend of PS3 installs, as we had to wait a full 25 minutes to play that game.
However, if it install helped improve the game in some way then we are happy to wait that extra time. Regretfully, neither Ubi nor Free Radical have explained how the install will technically aid the title, so we find the 20 minute long extra wait far from ideal at the moment.
Xbudz
May 17th, 2008
The required installs are used to prevent long loading times, and the other option of repeating the same game data throughout the Blu-Ray disc.
Thomas
May 17th, 2008
I fail too see the huge change is load times that a install brings. The 360/PS3 versions of Devil May Cry 4 had about a 1 second difference.
Justin
May 17th, 2008
The Blue-Ray discs have a slower read speed then standard DVD’s and Cd’s if there was no install for DMC4 the PS3 would have been a lot slower compared to the 360. Although like you said with the install it was a little quicker.
Boo Radley
May 18th, 2008
I certainly see the logic of the installs, but the people with smaller hard drives will have to upgrade right quick. Even I’m feeling the pinch on my 80GB drive that has some of my music and PSN games on it.
I don’t want to have to delete my media or older install stuff and decide which games I want to be able to pop in the disc and play. If Sony knew this was going to be an issue going in, why did they produce systems with measly sub-100GB drives?
Ah well, I guess it’s just a “hidden cost” of having a PS3 that someone wants to use to its full potential. Will have to buy the biggest drive I can, as who knows how big these installs are gonna get
Monkey Rimmer
May 19th, 2008
4GB does seem to be a bit excesive, however, I’m really looking forward to this so no probs…..
Thomas
May 20th, 2008
I just remembered that Uncharted had very, very small load times, and did not ask people to sit through a huge install.
All these huge installs are just a way to point out bad, lazy developers IMO.