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oreodaredattoomotteyagaru
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I wasn't exactly instructing you to list the features :P If one cares enough about it, they will look it up themselves.
People like you and me 'get it'. (I have a PS3, if you didn't know.) I understand why it costs what it does, even if I don't agree with it. I would not have bought the PS3 when I did were it not for this software emulation thing, but as I mentioned that's what tipped me over.
While I agree that the BluRay's storage capabilities (50 GB max) is great, that does come with practical downsides:
-More data=longer load times. If you don't want to bear with the load times, you can install the game onto your harddrive, and that actually works like a dream. However,
-Installing onto harddrive takes up space. (Duh!) The amount of time it takes to actually install is understandably substantial, so I'm not complaining about that. (While I didn't exactly time how long it took for Ninja Gaiden to install, I started to watch a video while it was going on. When the install ended, my video was around the 8 minute mark.) I only have 2 'installed' BluRay games on my PS3, and that's VF5 and Ninja Gaiden. Upon downloading the MGS4 trailer this morning, I noticed I had 39 GBs of free space left. I was surprised that so much of my 60 GB harddrive space had been eaten by 2 games.
Not to say the 2 games alone took up 21 GBs. Boring details in spoilers. Skip past for the result.
(SPOILER)-This is mostly anecdotal evidence, as I don't have my PS3 here to check the real numbers.
I only own 2 other games, Resistance and Gundam Musou, and those read off the disc. I have 4 demos installed (Genji, Armored Core, Ninja Gaiden, Rub a dub) and one HD video of around 250 megs. Above all that, I have 3 full PS2 cards installed on my drive. Assuming the demos are 1GB each (they are not), all of the other data that I loaded myself should only be 4.5 GB. Add to that around 2 GBs of system data and updates, and that's 6.5 GBs of data used for stuff that is not installed games.
60GBs (PS3 max storage) minus 6.5 GBs (other data) = 53.5 GBs remaining space.
So if my current 'remaining disk space' after installing 2 games is 39 GBs:
53.5 GBs - 39 GBs = 14.5 GBs.
Those two installed games together equal at least 14.5 GBs. That's 1/4 of the 60GB PS3's total storage on 2 games. It's an understandable sacrifice to increase the game's performance, though I can see problems arising in the future when more games come down the line. When I'm low on space, I'll be forced to either delete another (frequently played) game's data, or endure the potentially long load times.
So this future of gaming is great, but it comes with strings attached.
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