Ridge Racer 7 Takes 5GB of Hard Drive Space

drewdrakes - 1156 days 20 hours ago

Trying to find? Im pretty sure everyone comes across this stuff without looking. Its hard not to see it. And its not like this is a bad thing, loading times are faster. So chill out.

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yigmalsh - 1156 days 20 hours ago

"desperate" is getting all worked up over something someone says if they happen to disagree with you.

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Marriot VP - 1156 days 19 hours ago

that's exactly what I've been saying when they announced it at E3.

I said the 20gb would probably need a HDD upgrade in the future for active gamers because already 2-3 of the developers announced they needed to save stuff on the HDD.

I'm very curious to see how much in each game needs to be downloaded.

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Marriot VP - 1156 days 19 hours ago

where did you find that out, seriously I never ask anybody for links but I never heard that you'll have the option.

don't mean to be a jerk about it, just wondering

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kmis87 - 1156 days 18 hours ago

http://www.kotaku.com/gamin...
Keeping with the Kotaku links. This seems to be the exact same thing. You put some info on the hard drive to reduce load times to almost nothing. You can still play the game as usual without the install, but the load times will be three times as long.

Basically, if you get Ridge Racer 7 and you plan to play it alot, you use this install feature so that your load times will be reduced while you're playing it. Once you get tired with the game and stop playing it as much and start playing other things, you can uninstall the Ridge Racer information and install the other game you'll be playing instead. It's a good thing, not a bad thing. Ask any other pc gamer besides me.

Update: Another thing, the article says that they hope there is a way to upgrade hard drives. Well the ps3 can use any 2.5 inch standard hard drive, so anyone can upgrade it as they want, and they won't be forced to buy an overpriced proprietary hard drive. I know you can get at least 80GB hard drives for $90 or less. I don't really follow it that closely, as I haven't had to update my laptop hard drive (80GB) for a few years.

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Marriot VP - 1156 days 18 hours ago

Still it doesn't say you have the "option", just that you can do it like it's possible. It's very unclear. It's a feature/procedure that doesn't say whether it's an option or not.

"Also unexpected was a feature in "Genji" to install the game, committing 4GB of data from the game's Blu-Ray disc to the PS3's hard drive -- a three-minute one-time-only procedure available from the game's start menu that a Sony rep said cuts down in-game load times from about 15 seconds to four seconds. That's something Sony can offer, given that both versions of its console include a hard drive -- 20GB and 60GB, respectively"

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kmis87 - 1156 days 17 hours ago

It is an option because you can do it to reduce it to four seconds, or not do it and have 15 second load times. The fact that it works fine without doing it means it's an option.
This link:
http://www.gamasutra.com/ph...
clearly says: "Genji: Days of the Blade would install 4GB of game data to the hard disc, in a process lasting only three minutes and available as an option from the game’s main menu."

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HyperBear - 1156 days 16 hours ago

It is an option. PS3 Soon-To-Be-Owners like myself will have the option on which games we want to save on our HDD, and which ones to not. And well for racing games, i dont know if you really need a save file for them anyways, and the only use for saving this racing game in particular, is if you want a little bit faster load time, which is useless. But yea, if i want, when i get RFOM, i dont even have to save it to my HDD, but it only uses 33MB of space, so its worth it(plus RFOM already has fast loading times, plus you kinda need a save file to continue on the story campaign without having to start from the beginning everytime.)

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power of Green - 1156 days 17 hours ago

You mean you have to use upgrades and patches as you Sony fanboys say.

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OutLaw - 1156 days 6 hours ago

The original site that this news came from was IGN. Which their company Gamespy has an online deal with Sony.

Here is the link:
http://www.gamasutra.com/ph...
So why would they want to drag Sony through the dirt?

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12Volt - 1156 days 5 hours ago

But I say this because there are websites out there that do, I hope you can agree with that.

However it's really hard to believe that the final product will require you to use 5Gigs of your HD. I dont think we have the whole story. I mean it's racing Game, If it were an MMO I'd understand. Also, you dont hear other games using this much space. I think somethings off with this story.

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OutLaw - 1156 days 5 hours ago

But I also heard something like this for Genji at the MTV showing.

Here is a Quote.

"Also unexpected was a feature in "Genji" to install the game, committing 4GB of data from the game's Blu-Ray disc to the PS3's hard drive -- a three-minute one-time-only procedure available from the game's start menu that a Sony rep said cuts down in-game load times from about 15 seconds to four seconds. That's something Sony can offer, given that both versions of its console include a hard drive -- 20GB and 60GB, respectively."

We will all see soon what Sony has up their sleeves since the PS3 is just a couple weeks away.

But you're right with some sites may want to see the PS3 fail but not all.

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