Game updates = PS3 fail

Why is it, the xbox game updates take seconds, where as PS3 updates can take hours!?

I get limited time to game so I find this pretty annoying.

Socom had about 600mb of updates

MAG had 700mb updates

I stuck uncharted 2 in the other day to find 7 updates were neeeded. The first one was 140mb, so I turned it off again.

For me, this totally goes against the benefits of console gaming.

Why is it, the xbox game updates take seconds, where as PS3 updates can take hours!?

I get limited time to game so I find this pretty annoying.

Socom had about 600mb of updates

MAG had 700mb updates

I stuck uncharted 2 in the other day to find 7 updates were neeeded. The first one was 140mb, so I turned it off again.

For me, this totally goes against the benefits of console gaming.

I agree. This is truly the worse thing about the PS3. I find it more effective if when the updating bar ever stops, to just restart the process. Often times it stops at 4%. I just exit out and restart it. It makes the process faster.

totally agree with this, updates are a nightmare on PS3... and unfrotunately these updates are quite frequent..

The updates take long because of the way the PS3 handles patches. It is an issue Sony needs to fix, but there's no need to exaggerate. They don't take hours to complete. At the very least, they should allow background downloading and installing of patches like Steam.

Slashkice

totally agree with this, updates are a nightmare on PS3... and unfrotunately these updates are quite frequent..

Malta_1980

If the updates are 700mb big that could only mean there adding more content. Which is a GOOD thing.

[QUOTE="Malta_1980"]

totally agree with this, updates are a nightmare on PS3... and unfrotunately these updates are quite frequent..

shalashaska88

[QUOTE="shalashaska88"][QUOTE="Malta_1980"]

totally agree with this, updates are a nightmare on PS3... and unfrotunately these updates are quite frequent..

delta3074

The socom update is with all the new guns, whole lot of fixes, it just changes the gameplay completely thats why. Same thing with MAG new maps, guns and all the other stuff.

Hours? Not even close

One Single Hour? Still not even close.

You should upgrade your internet, but if you live in a slower broadband area, them's the breaks.
I will say that I am sick of updates for any console and even PC though, it's annoying.

TC, it also sounds like you haven't turned your PS3 in awhile to get all those updates at once is going to be slower.

The only issue I ever had was the MAG Beta, but that was literally gigs and gigs of information.

[QUOTE="shalashaska88"][QUOTE="delta3074"]10-20 minutes, takes about 10-20 seconds on the 360, and you can have background downloading and patching, if you pay for it, it's one of the features listed for PSN's premium service, the bigger problem though, is that these games need patching in the first place,. this release a game broken, patch it later on mentality really has to end.delta3074

Sometime i had to wait for like 30 - 45mins to make a download/install it.... with 360 its always seconds or a minute max... thats why i said updates are a nightmare on PS3..

Sometimes its frustrating having like 1 hour to game before maybe going out, pick a game and there's an update which you know it might take 15 mins or maybe more, so I just end up playing another game instead and update the other one when i have more time..

Hours? Not even close

One Single Hour? Still not even close.

You should upgrade your internet, but if you live in a slower broadband area, them's the breaks.
I will say that I am sick of updates for any console and even PC though, it's annoying.

SolidTy

Yeah so I hear!

It was pure funny, my friend was over playing COD4 at my house on 360. Start up game, and it pops up "An update is required". He goes "****" and puts down his controller.

I went "What's wrong?"

"O we won't be playing for 10 or 15 minutes. Bloody updates!"

Me: "Lol wut? *click update ...10 secs of loading... DONE!*

Him "Wtf!?"

Me "Yeah...haha"

If you don't update for long you will have more updates to load, this is why UC2 had 7 updates :p

LBP updates contains all DLC that comeing up, due the fact that you play with people with paid costiums and fact that play on level made by those who use DLC

Well issue is more fact that Sony is not software company, not eventually because you don't paid for it

Patches take unbelievably long to download but demos are fine. Ive verified that demos download at the max my ISP allows. I have not verified anything for patches but they do take a long time. Every new game I get requires a 5 minute update after a 5 minute install.

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

Hours? Not even close

One Single Hour? Still not even close.

You should upgrade your internet, but if you live in a slower broadband area, them's the breaks.
I will say that I am sick of updates for any console and even PC though, it's annoying.

110million

My buddy lives up north in a rural area and he has the best broadband he can buy , pays more than me, and it's super slow. He hates updating his PC, everything.

$5 more for 30mbit, that seems well worth it.

How dare they patch their games :evil: Live is better becuase they don't patch their games? Is that what your saying? Because that's not true, and downloading a 600mb patch on Live will not take seconds...

Yeah so I hear!

It was pure funny, my friend was over playing COD4 at my house on 360. Start up game, and it pops up "An update is required". He goes "****" and puts down his controller.

I went "What's wrong?"

"O we won't be playing for 10 or 15 minutes. Bloody updates!"

Me: "Lol wut? *click update ...10 secs of loading... DONE!*

Him "Wtf!?"

Me "Yeah...haha"

locopatho

the last CoD4 patch on my PS3 only took around 2min max installing an dl/ing.The only patching that ever annoyed me was the LBP ones as i stupidly deleted them to make way for borderlands then it had 10 patches to DL only took around an hour.When it did that i just went away and watched the telly.But some patches were pretty heavy.

And to tc 700mb is a pretty big patch i highly doubt you could download that in under a min unless you had an optimal connection and setup straight to the servers :S.

20 to 30 minutes to download & install 700 MB worth of updates with LittleBigPlanet...that's...long...

That's messed up man. Somehow 13 cents a day for XBL sounds even cheaper these days. :P

It's an inconvenience...but not one you should pay 40$ to 60$ to get rid of.

+a year (for XBL)

Agreed. Although nothing ever took me an hour, that wasn't a demo or MAG.

Updates on the PS3 were beyond terrible, and it seemed to do them one after the other if you;ve missed a couple updates, as opposed to the xbox which seems to do the one cumilative update which literally takes around 20 seconds.

Game demos are a horror too, they often take longer to download, and on top of that install.

I guess this is where MS shows why it's a software company(God knows it's not with the games)

How dare they patch their games :evil: Live is better becuase they don't patch their games? Is that what your saying? Because that's not true, and downloading a 600mb patch on Live will not take seconds...

Mestitia

Updates do take a VERY LONG TIME. but I was about to say that Xbox 360 has updates too but then I read your actual message.

[QUOTE="Malta_1980"]

totally agree with this, updates are a nightmare on PS3... and unfrotunately these updates are quite frequent..

shalashaska88

LOL. 10 - 20 minutes! Jeez, so new game with an update is about 30 minutes before you play it? Complete garbage.

[QUOTE="Mestitia"]

How dare they patch their games :evil: Live is better becuase they don't patch their games? Is that what your saying? Because that's not true, and downloading a 600mb patch on Live will not take seconds...

Ninja-Hippo

[QUOTE="locopatho"]

Yeah so I hear!

It was pure funny, my friend was over playing COD4 at my house on 360. Start up game, and it pops up "An update is required". He goes "****" and puts down his controller.

I went "What's wrong?"

"O we won't be playing for 10 or 15 minutes. Bloody updates!"

Me: "Lol wut? *click update ...10 secs of loading... DONE!*

Him "Wtf!?"

Me "Yeah...haha"

razgriz_101

the last CoD4 patch on my PS3 only took around 2min max installing an dl/ing.The only patching that ever annoyed me was the LBP ones as i stupidly deleted them to make way for borderlands then it had 10 patches to DL only took around an hour.When it did that i just went away and watched the telly.But some patches were pretty heavy.

And to tc 700mb is a pretty big patch i highly doubt you could download that in under a min unless you had an optimal connection and setup straight to the servers :S.

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[QUOTE="locopatho"]

Yeah so I hear!

It was pure funny, my friend was over playing COD4 at my house on 360. Start up game, and it pops up "An update is required". He goes "****" and puts down his controller.

I went "What's wrong?"

"O we won't be playing for 10 or 15 minutes. Bloody updates!"

Me: "Lol wut? *click update ...10 secs of loading... DONE!*

Him "Wtf!?"

Me "Yeah...haha"

locopatho

the last CoD4 patch on my PS3 only took around 2min max installing an dl/ing.The only patching that ever annoyed me was the LBP ones as i stupidly deleted them to make way for borderlands then it had 10 patches to DL only took around an hour.When it did that i just went away and watched the telly.But some patches were pretty heavy.

And to tc 700mb is a pretty big patch i highly doubt you could download that in under a min unless you had an optimal connection and setup straight to the servers :S.

Id say my average update time on the PS3 was about 5-10 minutes. Compared to my 5-10 seconds on my Xbox.

Since I only used my PS3 for exclusives it's hard for me to compare them directly, however when i did lend a copy of Oblivion from a friend, it took about 20 minutes to download like 4 updates. The Xbox would have done that in 30 seconds.

because Sony doesn't have good servers throughout the countries they serve.
Microsoft has loads of servers all over which makes things much much faster.

because Sony doesn't have good servers throughout the countries they serve.
Microsoft has loads of servers all over which makes things much much faster.

WilliamRLBaker

i presume it must also be something to do with the size of the patches, because sony games tend to be 5-700 mb in size, if you try to download something on your computer that size at even the fastest speed, it would still take 2 minutes+. but servers would defintely contribute.

updates are like everything else they did this gen, not too fast and not too slow, i think the actual term for sony and how they did things this gen is half-fast. hehehe

This has always been a problem with the ps3 and how they impliment patches or game updates. You should under ANY circumstances have a patch that is 500+ mb that is just insanity. The bad part about updates on the ps3 is that you can not DOWNLOAD IN THE BACKGROUND hopefully they get it together with the next system cause this update crap is the reason why i wont touch socom again, that one update alone TOOK AN HOUR and the install took bout 5-10 min.

PS: if the rumor is true that you have to pay for premium to get background dl of updates that is LEGENDARY FAIL on sonys part that is something that should be included in the systems dna regardless.