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Hey guys, I just recently got a PS3 for Christmas, and I have a question. How come games install game data? It's like 500MB-2GB in size. I'm just wondering what specifically this does. Is it to improve load times? Just wondering. Really loving the PS3 so far.

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A lot of games. Ratchet and Clank, UT3, Resistance, Orange Box, Assassin's Creed. Before you play the game for the first time it always "installing necessary game files, please wait 30-60 seconds."

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Yes, it is to improve loading times as the Blu-Ray drive is too slow to rely on alone. The only annoying part about this is you need to be careful about what games you get as you can run out of space quickly, still at least the PS3's HDD is easy enough to upgrade. I'll probally be upgrading mine in the future, as it seems quite a few of the games I'd like to get need to install a minimum of 2-5Gb of data and that will eat up my 40Gb HDD pretty quick.

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Yes, it is to improve loading times as the Blu-Ray drive is too slow to rely on alone. The only annoying part about this is you need to be careful about what games you get as you can run out of space quickly, still at least the PS3's HDD is easy enough to upgrade. I'll probally be upgrading mine in the future, as it seems quite a few of the games I'd like to get need to install a minimum of 2-5Gb of data and that will eat up my 40Gb HDD pretty quick.

Really? Assassins creed installed 1.3gb of data and all the others games I've played (Orange Box, Drakes Journey, etc.) do not surpass 1gb.

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it's to allow increased loading times and stream loading capability how much a developer takes advantage of it is up to them really but usually won't ever be much if at all over 4GB

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Really? Assassins creed installed 1.3gb of data and all the others games I've played (Orange Box, Drakes Journey, etc.) do not surpass 1gb.

Well GT5 and GT5P will eat a touch over 5Gb each, which is alot. I've read UT3 takes around 4Gb, although from previous posts that seems tobe wrong (thankfully) and I've been contenplating Oblivion (which takes about 5Gb) but probally won't since I do have it on 360 (but can't play it as the 360 is dead) and PC (but doesn't play well unfortunatly)

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Rachet & Clank : 417Mb

Heavenly Sword 1.1 : 2068Mb <-- BIG

Orange Box : 452Mb

Resistance : 863Mb

Motorstorm 3.1 : 390Mb

Warhawk 1.2 : 122Mb

Im upgrading my 40GB PS3 to a 250GB HDD next week.

I reckon GTA will take up alot of space as well. That game was bad for loading on any system.

Hopefully to compensate PS3 owners for no content packs the game will have superior load times. Hopefully.

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