PS3… The horror…
I haven't bothered updating for a while, mainly because im lazy. Anyway i wanted to rant about the PS3 a bit while im a bit bored...
Its like we have taken a step back in the way consoles work. Their main selling point is that you just put your game in and play it, no hassle, no upgrades to hardware. Only time you cant play your game is when your console is either dead or you are drunk and cant work out where the game goes in... or maybe you have run out of power...
The other day after getting a sudden urge to play Oblivion again i went out and got the new GOTY edition with the expansion, although only places that had it cheap had it on PS3. As we have a PS3 at home i thought it would be fine, so i hand over my 20 pounds and trott off home eager to play.
Like a scene from an Shaun of the dead i unwrapped the game hit the Ps3 on put the game in, then went to the toilet. When i come back its telling me that i cant play the game because it needs to install some stuff to the PS3... WHY???
As it wasnt my PS3 i had to tiptoe round the data on the hard drive and delete some random game files that were still lying around such as MGS @ 4gb in size, and many other installs. Now i looked up for a technical reason as to why the PS3 has to install games instead of just running them. As from a simplistic overview of the system, its comparable to the Xbox 360 in power and has a BluRay drive which should mean it can read more data faster, or how are you going to watch your fancy pants movies?
The only reason i could find seemed to be relating to the way the drive reads in the data. Rather than reading lots of small chunks of data it apparently reads LARGE chunks of data from a section at a time, so if you want to load up a 500kb texture it would take a while due to it reading it as a part of a much larger chunk. So due to this reason they dump all the commonly used data on the hard drive, which can read it all as and when it needs it rather than relying on the disc to give it the data a month after you request it.
After removing a load of rubbish i was able to install the 4gb of data so i could play the damn game. On the Xbox all i would need to do is turn it on put the disc in and play... Although saying that every person with an Xbox i know has had it red ring multiple times and some of them are on their 3rd xbox... and i havent heard of many PS3s breaking down yet, but thats probably because they never use the damn Lazer...
Anyway rant over...