Buy Playstation 3

Last month there was a lot of noise about the mandatory install that Capcom required for its Devil May Cry 4 video game. The problem was that these installs were required for Playstation 3 but not for Xbox 360 so the users were a little annoyed. On a first time run the game required the user to do a 20 minute install of certain content so that the game would load faster. I don't think it was much of a problem when I had to do the install, sure it was a bit odd, but no big deal. Apparently not everyone felt the same way.

Anyway, some people, the more curious ones, went out to find out why these installs were required on Playstation 3 and not on Xbox. The reason is that it has to do with the Blu-ray hardware. However, there are many games that are more resource intensive than DMC4, why don't they require installs? It has to do more with the developer optimizing the game for the Playstation 3 rather than anything else. After this whole episode I'm sure developers have taken note that users are not going to stand to wait 20 minutes to play their game, they need instant gratification, NOW!

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