PS3 Games Install Footprint
Image via WikipediaRecently I rented Soul Caliber IV from the local video store who has had the foresight to rent PS3 games and BlueRay disks for a while now. I did my normal happy dance for finding a same week title at the store and rushed home to give it a try. It loaded right up and I started playing but then it stopped and I got the black screen saying “A newer version of the software (version 1.04). Would you like to download it now?”
Normally I would just go ahead and download but since I was in the middle of a fight I opted not to and continued playing. Then that got me thinking about the install features of games all together. Developers, with the option to use a dedicated hard drive, can now put a significant portion of the game on disk for faster throughput. In the case of GT-Prologue the disk is nothing more than a delivery device for the game which is installed on your hard drive. This is all fine and good when you own a game. But what about if you rent?
Renting means temporary use of a game for a while then shipping the game disk back. In the past this left nothing more than a saved game file on your machine which you can easily delete. Now with updated content and games, you will have game data on your system which is not as easy to find and may not be as easy to get rid of. With saved games it is easy to remember where and what needs to be removed but game data is not something that a gamer thinks of when they are returning a disk. Not to mention, if you no longer play a game, you need to remember to delete the game data if you need precious hard drive space.
This may just be the growing pains of new gaming systems and I am definitely not advocating getting rid of these updates. Just remember that when you return a game to the store, you also need to purge the data from your system. Now if we could just get Madden NFL 09 to update the player stats in game as the football season progresses . . .
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