Listen, we all know why the install was mandatory. Your poorly written MT framework engine has issues on the PS3 and it can’t seem to load data fast enough.

Hey dude, what do you suggest we do with the 5GB install for that pathetic Lost planet port? Take a dump?

I know the PS3 gets the “luxury” or the cached install since a hard drive is ALWAYS a standard option, but are there any contractual obligations for publishers to make a cache OPTION for 360 games? Although having a hard drive is not required (and therefore all 360 games have to function on the premise that a potential consumer owns a 360 without a hard drive), how difficult would it be to just menable an option in the settings menu “Cache frequently used files on the hard drive” if the particular 360 happens to have a drive installed?

Granted you, as a blogger, don’t have any control of the development process, so I’ll step back and again emphasize the fact that I’d rather deal with load times here and there than wait half an hour to play a game I’ve just run out and purchased. I watched a friend playing the 360 version earlier this evening before we played the new Smash Brothers and I didn’t notice any drastic or distracting load times. What’s funny is by you pointing it out to such a degree, you seem to have made it more of an issue than it would have been in the first place.

I guess the real point at hand is not enough people own a PS3 to really make the complaints they’re going to have that significant

and…

Another from Sept. of 2006

and even…

Kotaku reports on this in late 2006.

Old news. Do your research guys.

Staying occupied for 20 mins isn’t exactly the biggest mission in the world and I think reducing loading times throughout the game is a decent payoff for a 1 off install.

Honestly, this blog entry reads like a spoiled, pouting child.

pffffffft.

Not since Dungeon Master ST (That’s Atari ST) have I thought a game takes too long to load, but 20 minutes for a console game? What crack are you guys smoking?

Don’t care how many screen shots you got displayed to keep the gamers occupied, but maybe if you took out the loading images and focused on copying the game to the HD, maybe you could cut down your loading times?

“Hey, Chris, nice job avoiding discussing the 360 version”.

Did you ever think that this game has ALWAYS been a playstation game since it first came out and that 90% of the people that are going to purchase this game are going to be from the ps3 community? Nobody is going to know what the hell DMC4 is unless they have owned a ps/ps2. So why would they be interested in buying a game based on story line when its the 4th in the series.

“The load times on it are 2-3 seconds slower than the PS3 version’s… taking into account YOU ALREADY INSTALLED IT ON PS3. Is it honestly worth sitting through 21 freaking minutes just to have the load times decrease by a few measly seconds?”

If you are patient and just watch a tv show while it installs, imagine how much mind numbing time that can be avoided later.

“That just makes me laugh…

Oh, great! Next-gen consoles have FINALLY managed to catch up to SNES. That’s a real achievement…

/sarcasm”

This comment really shows how idiotic you really are, SNES was a cartridge based system which virtually eliminates load times, do you realize how much information has to be transfered from the disc into the RAM everytime a HUGE ASS level loads (it has to load everytime because after you pass that section of the game the RAM is then wiped)? I just wish they did this for assassin’s creed too

“So, you’re comparing a PS3 game to PC game… instead of making a better comparison — the 360 version.”

You’re really obsessed with the xbox 360? and since the xbox came out, all it has been is a dumbed down version of a computer that uses a controller for a keyboard, and that is what all newer consoles are like, Why NOT compare it to a PC? All new systems are moving to be just like computers with it’s primary purpose being GAMES.

“Sigh.”

X-box obsessed Halo playing newbie, why not at least try giving real gaming systems a chance that have more than 1 decent original game.

HERES A HINT, TRY A PS3 OR A Wii!

Nintendo/Sega and Sony have been the longest standing platforms and most popular for a reason.

halo will eventually die out as fast as WoW will eventually.

Well that blows. Can you see the problem when this becomes common practice? You can do it on PCs because we have hundreds upon hundreds of Gigs of space to use, not so much for the PS3, which at most has 80. 80 Gigs compared to 320Gigs (and that’s not even close to max). Yeah, fair comparison!

And coming back to the game will be a pain in the rear after you delete it to make room for movies/music/software/etc. Then one day you want to just play DMC4 but realize you need to wait 20minutes. Well, guess what the player does? Plays a different game.

I hope the Sony check was fat enough

Im not getting this game ultil they solve this. You will need to work a little harder to get my money Capcom.