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Lost Planet Requires 5GB Installation

"Capcom was kind enough to send us a pre-release copy of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition for our PlayStation 3. Surprisingly, just like Devil May Cry 4, Capcom also requires a 5GB installation that can take up to 15-20 minutes. Only this time, there isn't much to read on-screen, and it's pretty much pointless to sit in front of the TV watching it install so very slowly."

"While we are confident that the 5GB installation is worth it, will this be a Capcom requirement for all of their PS3 titles? Perhaps." - via PS3 Style
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Lost Planet Requires 5GB In... - gamercenteronline.net | By: GCO Gamer
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Published: 678 days 14 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3
 
 

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pwnsause - 678 days 14 hours ago
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oh god, here we go again, waiting for the horde of fanboys to jump to this thread and bomb.
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Frankenberg - 678 days 13 hours ago
1.1 - It is elementary
You want Blu-Ray, you get 5Gig installs. The Blu-Ray is slower reading than the DVD in the 360. When this next gen gets here, those fabulous games have more data needs for the different levels.

Trust me, waiting every time you go thru a door in Oblivion on the 360 for at least 1 minute gets old in a hurry.
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Regret - 678 days 13 hours ago
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I feel sorry for those who bought 20GB PS3.
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Packet - 678 days 13 hours ago
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"The Blu-Ray is slower reading than the DVD in the 360."

Wow, that's some stale old FUD you're trying to spread there.

Give it a rest.
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1.5 Xeikon | 678 days 13 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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khellendros1 - 678 days 12 hours ago
1.6 - @1.2
The good thing about it is that they they can upgrade to a 80 gig for about 60 bucks or a 120 gig for 75. I have the 60 gig version but I'm going to upgrade to a 120 gig or more sometime this year.
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DarkSniiper - 678 days 12 hours ago
1.7 - Dark Sniper is fed up with this
I am getting rid of my PS3!!!

Xbox 360 FTW!!!

$nipe
1.8 jiggyjay | 678 days 10 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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avacadosnorkel - 678 days 10 hours ago
1.9 - It's CRAPCOM
TECMO AND CAPCOM are the only 2 japanese companies MS has in it's Japanese support group.

They both favor the 360. You can listen to the Capcom devs and they all say they get hard-ons for America.

CAPCOM games will continue to be better on 360 until PS3 takes the lead in sales.
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Dannagar - 678 days 9 hours ago
1.10 - 20 Gig Playstation 3
Meh... I was one of those lucky fellows that got a 20 gig Playstation 3 (in order to get it on day one). Though I haven't mention it on N4G, it's one of the reasons I usually get Xbox 360 versions of Multi-platform games. However, I do value full backward compatibility over a larger hard drive. In the future, should I need more space, it is possible to replace the hard drive with a larger one.

For now, I just delete content after I'm done with it.
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gta_cb - 678 days 7 hours ago
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i would not even bother buying this game, seriously i have played it on my Xbox 360 completed the first 2 lvls (easily) and got bored with it, they could have done such a better job.
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Shaner_Bock - 677 days 14 hours ago
1.12 - @ Regret
Don't feel sorry for 20gb PS3 owners, they can easily upgrade their hard drives up to 320gb for less than $180 while a 120gb 360 hard drive runs for $180(I've seen it cheaper, though)....Don't get me wrong, I am no fanboy! I like the 360, too.

All I care about is games, I couldn't care less about what system they're on.
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SeanScythe - 678 days 14 hours ago
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I see lazyness here, why is sony allowing them to release the crap? I mean when games like Uncharted, COD4, GRAW2, half-life, Burnout, and so many other don't require this. I won't be getting any game from them if this is the way they are going to be.

Lazy Lazy Lazy.
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thisguywithhair - 678 days 13 hours ago
2.1 - Lazy?
What are you talking about being lazy? These people are making HUGE games for YOU to enjoy. I have heard people on this site complaining how short some games are, how they are done before they really even get into it. The installation is required so that in game load times will be shorter. Sure you are complaining about a one time download, granted it is a long one. But I would hate to hear you whine if you had to sit through the constant level loads of absurd length if the installation weren't there.
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xplosneer - 678 days 13 hours ago
2.2 - Well the point is
some better graphical games can go through the whole thing without loading, so why does this game require a 5GB install?
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ThaGeNeCySt - 678 days 11 hours ago
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not every developer uses the same engine and game making techniques
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Dannagar - 678 days 9 hours ago
2.4 - Not Lazyness
Blu-Ray is still in its infancy. It's comparable to a 1 speed CD-Rom player. Many developers are finding different tricks to get past the slow speed of Blu-Ray. One trick is to duplicate the data over and over. However a sure fire way to cut down load time is to install data on the hard drive. Plus, it saves development time and money. In the future, as developers learn to develop on Playstation 3, I'm sure you'll see less and less games having to be installed. Until then, it's a necessary evil that those wanting to enjoy Playstation 3 will have to put up with.
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xplosneer - 678 days 2 hours ago
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Genecyst- True

Segamer-good point and also true.

Just wish they WOULD HURRY THE HECK UP WITH THAT.
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UnblessedSoul - 678 days 14 hours ago
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Why is capcom having 5 gig installs for all their ps3 games ? Can't they learn to make them smaller or something
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socomnick - 678 days 14 hours ago
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If capcom did not force a 5 gig install the load times would be horrendous. I prefer installing the game and having reduced load times .
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Mr_Kuwabara - 678 days 14 hours ago
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I don't get why Capcom has to do this 5gb crap and I even doubt it's to make it have "faster loading" and the fact that it's mandatory to install, is what sucks the most.

I thought that EA was lazy with PS3 ports/games but they've impressed me with there latest releases so far but Capcom has officially gained the title of lazy devs.
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games4fun - 678 days 13 hours ago
4.1 - i agree
I mean capcom will have a hard enough time trying to get people to get lost planet, but to be so lazy on something when you could easily take your time (its not like people are on pins and needles waiting for the ps3 version) but instead make another controversial download, i am fine when a games installs its usually one to three gigs and doesnt take a lot of time at all and usually the benefits are tremendous

but in this situation capcom is shooting themselves in the foot i will remember this as will other playstation customers in the future further annoying the people who sustained your company all these years.
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sak500 - 678 days 14 hours ago
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3 games, 15gb gone. Time to start looking to upgrade the hard drive people with 20/40/60 SKUs
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Packet - 678 days 13 hours ago
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0 Capcom games == 0 GBs gone.

Problem solved.
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KillaManiac - 678 days 11 hours ago
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ya im planning to replace my 60 gig w/ a 250 gig soon
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Bubble Buddy - 678 days 10 hours ago
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haha niice Packet
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SUP3R - 678 days 7 hours ago
5.4 - *sigh* Capcom *sigh*
I have no intention thus far to purchase a Capcom title with the exception of Resident Evil 5. If RE5 has the install process I'll welcome it. I don't understand why they're the only developers that require it, but I really don't care whether it does or doesn't as long as I get to play the game.
I've survived hundreds of thousands of hours of real life, 15-20mins I honestly doubt is going to kill me.
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Vip3r - 678 days 14 hours ago
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Lazyness ftl. Funny how DMC4 needed it and now LP somehow needs it. Capcom really need to learn a thing or two about programming.
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socomnick - 678 days 14 hours ago
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Viper are you a programmer then please enlighten us on how capcom can solve the install issue.
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The Fungus - 678 days 13 hours ago
6.2 - Well
I'm no expert programmer(I do dabble), so I don't know EXACTLY how to do it, but there is a way.

Uncharted, which is considered by many to be the best looking game on the ps3, has NO load times after the first one. "all" it takes is a streaming system. Load the next level while you are still playing the one you are in. Keep it in a cache on the HDD(or something), and BAM! When you need the data, its there.

Load times should be a thing of the past with the ps3, and if your games do indeed have load times, you haven't put forth 100% effort into your game. Because its possible.
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Packet - 678 days 13 hours ago
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There are really only two require a large harddrive install:

1) You are severely disc space constrained and had to use a very computation intensive compression algorithm to fit your data onto the disc. And you need to spend tens of minutes decompressing data to the harddrive that you couldn't possibly do while the game was running.

2) You need to stream data faster than the disc drive can handle so you dump a big portion of your game data to the harddrive.

Pretty much any other loading off the disc can and should be done as background streams to a temporary harddrive cache that goes away when the game quits.

Capcom had decided to go pure lowest common denominator this gen with their PC based engine this and their other games are using. They are most certainly doing their main development running on PCs with the game data all stored on their machine's internal harddrives and at the last minute getting the game to run with the least amount of effort on the PS3 devkits. Hence the inane harddrive install requirements.

Capcom isn't getting a cent from me this gen. It will take them years to get their reputation back.
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travelguy2k - 678 days 12 hours ago
6.4 - Is it just me or is it
Only Multi platform games that are needing these huge installs. Burnout Paradise, Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet, I mean really, if a game is made from the ground up to only ever be run on the PS3, developers have the ability to make it streem and have 0 load times with minimal installs, as proven by Uncharted and Ratchet and Clank: FTOD
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Bubble Buddy - 678 days 10 hours ago
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Same technique God of War did. They covered load times by the distance to walk to the next battle scene. That should be next-gen: No load times.
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Rikitatsu - 678 days 14 hours ago
7 - Crapcom
Said that Because the Destroyed Clover Studios ... Damn
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gamesblow - 678 days 14 hours ago
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There is obviously something at play here... I'm saying dumped code or something. Those installs are absurd at best. There is clearly unfinished code inside those installs. All there is to it.

Uncharted

&

R&C

Both games smoke anything Capcom has to offer in scope and graphics and none of them have an install and none of them load during the game. Sounds like Capcom is basically using the xbox 360 as their crutch and the ps3 as their cast to me.
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xplosneer - 678 days 13 hours ago
8.1 - well
R&C does load a little(it's the rocketship woosh through the warp masked as a load screen) but it's very minimal witha about 7 seconds and the whole map and draw distance loads right there.
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Kareem - 678 days 14 hours ago
9 - Why are they streaming data directly to the HDD like some titles do?
Are the loading differences that big or are we only talking about 1 to 2 seconds?
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SeanScythe - 678 days 14 hours ago
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Oh well I didn't want this game anyway, I hope it fails. Now if it was Dead Rising I would have second thoughts. But if it has a 5 gig loading aswell then it's a big ? if I would get it or not.
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jaja1434 - 678 days 12 hours ago
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5 gig install or no, why would you ever want a game to fail? Shouldn't you, as a gamer, hope that a game succeed so that the company who made said game can continue to make newer and better games?(preferably with some kind of install)
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novaIS350 - 678 days 13 hours ago
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oh noez the PS3 is teh doomed.
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zslash - 678 days 13 hours ago
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This is old news... IGN reported it had a 5GB install weeks ago. Oh well.
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FAT MAN GO BOOM - 678 days 13 hours ago
13 - Lazy for sure....
There are way too many other developers that can make way more demanding games of the hardware than Capcom and they all have not required 5 gigs...

This is just poor programing and I think they are doing it on purpose...
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eagle21 - 678 days 13 hours ago
14 - Capcom is just being lazy.
Capcom must be taking some easy way out routes because that is way too high for that less than impressive game.
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Meus Renaissance - 678 days 13 hours ago
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I defended the DMC issue because I thought it was a one off. If Capcom are forcing their customers to actually upgrade the PS3 HDD then they might aswell not develop games for the platform till they learn how to actually use the streaming technology like the others know.

This is even worst than the bad ports EA produced as it eats 5GB of your hard drive. This is inexcusable and damn right offensive and anyone who dismisses this is just a blind Sony politician.

Capcom can suck my toe
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IDemonstalkerXI - 678 days 13 hours ago
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Something is definitley wrong here. Its not a Sony Hardware Issue either its a Capcom Issue its hard for me to believe too that they have problems developing ps3 games I don't know what there reasoning for these installs is.
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Sevir04 - 677 days 16 hours ago
15.2 - LOL!!! Meus
you are hilairious... "Capcom. you can suck my Toe" WTH did that come from LMAO!!!! i agree. I'm so not purchasing this game.. it's totally inexcusable... I certainly hope that Capcom gets it's act together, there are several ways to get behind this by streaming the in background while the level is being played. If Bionic comando and Dark void, street fighter 4, and RE5 all have this mandatory 5 gig install then i'm sooo not dealing with them. but at the same time... new bluray drives with 4x read speeds are hitting the market this year. and Sony has said that the new gen Bluray players and burners and PS3s later this year will come with them standard. So it should have even faster read speeds than the current dvd. also the current Bluray drive read speed is 2x.
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SeanScythe - 678 days 13 hours ago
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If the 360 didn't require it then the PS3 sure as hell shouldn't require it. It's just devs being lazy that's all there is to it.
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gamesblow - 678 days 13 hours ago
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I can see it now... Street fighter 4 will be missing a character on the ps3 version. Wait and see. It'll be missing a character the xbox 360 version has and they'll put it out on the PSN for us to download and it'll be a 5gb download.
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vloeistof - 678 days 13 hours ago
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well i hope gta iv wont have this kinda thing
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