Why are 1 hour PC install times acceptable but not 1 minute ones for consoles?

I always wondered this. With my previous Core2Duo & 8800GT, Starcraft 2 took an hour to install. Gears of War took ages to decompress and install. But why are people making a big deal out of a 1 minute install on ps3?

1 hour download maybe, but a 1 hour install? uhhhh, no way...15 is the longest i've ever experienced that isn't a blizzard game....blizzard games take long sometimes, lol

and it's a big deal because it's a console...you should just download it and it should be ready to go like the 360

i don't want my consoles trying to act like a PC

Not one single game I've done a full game install with has ever took over 10 minutes.

Edit: Oh wait... he said decompress and install.

Question... why are you decompressing?

I always wondered this. With my previous Core2Duo & 8800GT, Starcraft 2 took an hour to install. Gears of War took ages to decompress and install. But why are people making a big deal out of a 1 minute install on ps3?

jhcho2

I usually install my games in less then 5 minutes, sometimes 10 minutes. 90% of the times. And i can tell you from the bottom of my heart, i played so many games out there, i lost count years ago. So..

1 hour install? WTF?

The last huge install I ever saw was Gears of War which had a 30 minute install from the DVD.

Otherwise, the install time is almost nil on Steam when you don't include the download time. Starcraft 2 took about 5 minutes.

And it's not a 1 minute install on the PS3. Installing the Dead Space Extraction demo took around 5 minutes, maybe longer. If you count the download time, that's another 10 minutes tacked on.

My games take 5 minutes maximum to install.

Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

Also... are were u downloading and installing SC2 at the sametime through blizz downloader?

Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

Mystic-G

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Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

DragonfireXZ95

Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

Mystic-G

He said he had to wait for Gears of War to decompress, and Gears of War legally purchased has decompression I think.

Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

Mystic-G

Because consoles aren't supposed to be PCs. Also the installs can be much longer than 1 minute, you can't do anything while it's installing, you still need the disk in drive afterwards, and often the game still has hefty loading times.

SC2 took ages to install for whatever reason, but 1 hour definately isn't standard, and if you buy from steam there isn't a separate installation at all.

what one hour installs? I've never seen one

[QUOTE="Mystic-G"]

Again... he said decompress and install. Anyone wondering why he has to decopress (most likely from RAR files)?

waltefmoney

He said he had to wait for Gears of War to decompress, and Gears of War legally purchased has decompression I think.

I always wondered this. With my previous Core2Duo & 8800GT, Starcraft 2 took an hour to install. Gears of War took ages to decompress and install. But why are people making a big deal out of a 1 minute install on ps3?

jhcho2

1: I can't think of any PC game that took me an hour to install.

2: I can't think of any console game that's ready after a minute if you do indeed install it.

Because consoles aren't supposed to be PCs. Also the installs can be much longer than 1 minute, you can't do anything while it's installing, you still need the disk in drive afterwards, and often the game still has hefty loading times.

SC2 took ages to install for whatever reason, but 1 hour definately isn't standard, and if you buy from steam there isn't a separate installation at all.

ManicAce

lol TC is a pirate. Games take 1 hour to install when its heavily compressed and we know why games get compressed.GazaAli

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Because consoles aren't supposed to be PCs. Also the installs can be much longer than 1 minute, you can't do anything while it's installing, you still need the disk in drive afterwards, and often the game still has hefty loading times.

SC2 took ages to install for whatever reason, but 1 hour definately isn't standard, and if you buy from steam there isn't a separate installation at all.

ianuilliam

First off 1 hour install time are you insane? Maybe your drive is slow and your hard drive is wack...Ive never been over 20 minutes installing a game. 5 minutes is common amount of time installing a PC game. And ive installed lots of PS3 games that have taken longer than 1 minute.

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[QUOTE="ManicAce"]

Because consoles aren't supposed to be PCs. Also the installs can be much longer than 1 minute, you can't do anything while it's installing, you still need the disk in drive afterwards, and often the game still has hefty loading times.

SC2 took ages to install for whatever reason, but 1 hour definately isn't standard, and if you buy from steam there isn't a separate installation at all.

DragonfireXZ95

mass effect 2

[QUOTE="GazaAli"]lol TC is a pirate. Games take 1 hour to install when its heavily compressed and we know why games get compressed.ianuilliam

and starcraft 2 takes an hour to install?

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

[QUOTE="GazaAli"]lol TC is a pirate. Games take 1 hour to install when its heavily compressed and we know why games get compressed.ohthemanatee

and starcraft 2 takes an hour to install?

World of Warcraft is probably the only game that might take some time to install, usually due downloading the patches if that counts. But not even that takes a hour.

Also steam games = epic win.

therefor loadtimes are shorter

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[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]Lol at all the people calling tc a pirate because he said Gears had to decompress, when the retail version of Gears was compressed.

ianuilliam

and starcraft 2 takes an hour to install?

No, i have installed m2tw 10 gb in 15 mins on my crappy pc.

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and starcraft 2 takes an hour to install?

GazaAli

Serious. Business. :x

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="ianuilliam"]I've had plenty of pc games take a long time... Wait 5-10 minutes, switch disc, wait 5-10 minutes, switch disc again, etc. Maybe not an hour, except in the case of something like FFXI, but 30 minutes easy. And most of my pc games have still required a disc in the drive to play.

ohthemanatee

mass effect 2

nothing takes me an hour to install. at least not yet

Really? 1 hour and 1 minute? In my experience most PS3 games take ~ 2 minutes to install while PC games take ~12 minutes to install.

name me any ps3 game or xbox game that ever took a minute or less to install

retail only BTW, those little downloadable titles on psn can install really fast,im talking about retail titles on disc

First off 1 hour install time are you insane? Maybe your drive is slow and your hard drive is wack...Ive never been over 20 minutes installing a game. 5 minutes is common amount of time installing a PC game. And ive installed lots of PS3 games that have taken longer than 1 minute.

mattuk69

Yup. It could easily be a faulty HDD running in PIO-mode or something, everything takes ages to do.