LittleBigPlanet install is "about a gig," says Media Molecule

unsunghero28 - 540 days 22 hours ago

Seriously. I'm hoping that Sony will give us something to download at E3. That would be totally kickass.

Although I don't have any LBP wang creation on my agenda...

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spectyre - 540 days 13 hours ago

That's the beauty of LBP, even if you aren't the creative type, you'll still be able to enjoy other peoples creations.

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kewlkat007 - 540 days 21 hours ago

now that gamer that can't afford to upgrade his 20 model might be fuming. That's if they have more than games on there like video/music and such.

I guess this is the trend, it's now time for Plan B.

Upgrade your HDD.

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ucantbanme - 540 days 21 hours ago

I have a serious question for honest people.
If it was the xbox 360 that required these game installs, Would you veiw this as bad thing.

Please be honest in your answers.

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iHEARTboobs - 540 days 21 hours ago

I wouldn't view it as a bad thing. But i'm not a fanboy. Fan of the PS3 but not what one would consider a fanboy. Or at least not yet. Generally speaking though i don't see them as a bad thing.

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Jerkapotamus - 540 days 21 hours ago

Xbox 360 installs would be a very bad thing because some don't even have a hard drive, meaning some 360 owners wouldn't be able to even play the game. Moreover, the hard drive is not as easy to upgrade as the Ps3's. You can only go as high as 120 GB, but even then, you're getting ripped off compared to the price of the replacement PS3 hard drives.

The PS3, on the other hand, has a hard drive in ever console and is easy to upgrade to a higher GB hard drive at a fair price. That is why mandatory installs on the PS3 are okay, but not on the 360.

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deeznuts - 540 days 21 hours ago

ucantbanme, yes it would be a bad thing actually. Why? Because a HDD isn't standard on the 360! Ooooooohhhh!

A mandatory requirement that isn't supported by all variations of a product, cannot be good, can it?

EDIT: damn you jerkopotamus, damn you! You beat me by a few seconds. :D

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crck - 540 days 20 hours ago

I would not consider it a bad thing if these 2 conditions were met.

1. It made the game experience better.

2. If MS didn't charge a ridiculous price for a hard drive upgrade. 120 gb for $180 is $1.50 a GB. A PS3 250 GB hard drive is $90. That is $.36 a GB. See the difference? Ms is charging over 4 times as much per GB.

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kewlkat007 - 540 days 19 hours ago

Anything that helps is not a bad thing.

But regardless the 360 or PS3, nobody every said it was going to be the trend or mandatory. I just don't remember reading that before these consoles came out.

In that case why do we need the blu-Ray? or big Optical disk? if games could be installed on HDD's as they do on PC which will help Load times. Now some of the game is installed not the whole thing but when we are looking at 5 gig installs, it just tells you consoles are going towards the PC model.

I do not see it getting smaller. I think MS's deal with the 360 was to under-cut the PS3 price strategy by offering a 360 without HDD and giving you a choice of 3 consoles. Now if you know what the deal is with the Arcade Model 360, then you should not complain.(You know what your getting)You should save your money and get the Full Xbox 360 from the start. Then again MS is raping gamers on the HDD price.

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PSWii60_Gamer - 540 days 19 hours ago

it would actually be a problem on the 360 since they don't all have a hard drive.

my honest answer, i'd have no problem with mandatory installs on the 360. this is just me because of my situation. i bought s 60Gb PS3 at launch and two months later upgraded the hard drive to 160Gb (i've since bumped that to 320Gb). when i bought my 360 a year ago, it was because the elite had just recently come out. i had been interested in playing the halo games, gears, bioshock and the xbla stuff but there was no way i was going to do that with a 20Gb hard drive. i'm a media whore and i'd fill it up within hours. the 120gb option was very attractive to me.

with this generation of machines and all the downloadable content available, large hard drives are a must (for me at least). considering the push of the xbox live marketplace and the new video store coming to the ps3 selling a system with a 20, 40 or no HD is just insane. at least that's my take on it.

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ucantbanme - 540 days 17 hours ago

I meant if everything was equal, including the HDD situation.
I just feel like Sony fanboys sweep these little issues under the rug and bash the 360 for the same small issues.

Xbox fanboys do the same things so please don't miss understand me.

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steck67 - 540 days 21 hours ago

Yea, although I didnt really experience any screen tearings when I was playing the game, maybe because the game looks so good that I never really noticed it, I just saw right through it.

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DJ - 540 days 21 hours ago

Installs just put data (3d models, textures, scripting, animation, etc) on the hard drive for instantaneous access. Pretty important as textures and models take up a LOT of space.

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instantstupor - 540 days 20 hours ago

I can't say I remember running into any unacceptable level of screen tearing during my play-through though. Maybe I just didn't pick up on it, not really sure. If it did happen, it wasn't eye stabbingly jarring or anything.

On a side note, I wanted to play through Uncharted again, but now that I know Trophies are coming for it I'm waiting...Hurry up ND! I mean, take your time and get it right, but...ya know...hurry up! Please.

Oh, and as for the 1 GB install, I'm good. I've got quite a few game data chunks on my PS3, 10 GB allocated to Linux (which I never use, have to reformat I just don't want to deal with it until I have to), and like 10 movies encoded in DivX and still have at least 5-7 GB free.

My hard drive was attacked by the ferocious fours: Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid and Grand Theft Auto...like a 4 GB average per game. I mean, it's worth it, but at the same time Oi!

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beavis4play - 540 days 18 hours ago

i didn't experience any tearing. heard a few people say this. and there's a lot of low-end hdtvs out there.

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DJ - 540 days 19 hours ago

See a screen tear-like effect during fast camera moves/actions, which is why some reviews say Game A has tons of screen tearing and others say Game A has hardly any.

It's the reason I play my titles in 720p. Gotta get a 1080p set someday though...

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TheExecutive - 540 days 21 hours ago

how would I transfer the data on my 60gig HDD to a new HDD? Do I need a third hard drive to do this?

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chasuk08 - 540 days 21 hours ago

Yeh you need an external memory source, eg a memory stick or an external hardrive

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TheExecutive - 540 days 20 hours ago

dangit. The ps3 doesnt read my external hdd. so that means I would have to buy another one... sweet.

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xhairs9 - 540 days 20 hours ago

Do you have PC with enough memory? If so it should be incredibly easy.

Grab a USB/USB cable and plug your PS3 to your PC, it should work I've heard others did it but I've yet to try it. I did the smart thing and upgraded my 60gb to 120gb before all these newer games came out with installs etc. etc.

The only problem with going from your PS3 -> PC is that if it doesn't allow for a "Backup HDD" then you might have to manually move over each individual file, at the same time some of these games (I.E. Rockband) don't allow you to copy your game saves. But it's worth a shot :P

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PSWii60_Gamer - 540 days 18 hours ago

your external HD needs to be formatted FAT32 for the ps3 to recognize it. just reformat your drive or borrow one, it's entirely worth it.

i went from a 60Gb at launch to 160Gb two months later to 320Gb about a month and a half ago (i have a sickness obviously)

the process is pretty painless and worth the effort. just be careful with the HD screws. you need the right size screwdriver because they're very easy to strip.

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kevnb - 540 days 20 hours ago

To delete install data, if you cant do that you deserve to get suckered into buying another hdd.

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DJ - 540 days 19 hours ago

You sound like a Great parent.

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AllroundGamer - 540 days 21 hours ago

well you can add the textures and objects, which will probably be on the HDD, so you don't have to wait long when browsing through the list of content. And definitely agree, that this game will make history.

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REDZEV - 540 days 12 hours ago

maybe you should stay off the candy junky. playing games all day and eating candy all day and being on N4g forum all day cannot be good for your health. Boy the sony news has been amazing today huh fanboys???

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