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

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#51 bakalhau90
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'Why do PC games take 1 hour to decompress and instal?' I don't know, try buying games instead of downloading your way through them, and you may just get your install times to 15 minutes. Even so, it still doesn't take 1 hour no matter how hard you try.
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#52 Birdy09
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[QUOTE="bakalhau90"]'Why do PC games take 1 hour to decompress and instal?' I don't know, try buying games instead of downloading your way through them, and you may just get your install times to 15 minutes. Even so, it still doesn't take 1 hour no matter how hard you try.

Ok this thread as made me laugh, RAR versions are nowhere near an hour either, so, enought with the high-horse attitudes from you all. your just as wrong in saying it takes that long.
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#53 Brainkiller05
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1 hour? takes me less time to download AND install.
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#54 ccagracing
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I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

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#55 Mozelleple112
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I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

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24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

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#56 DragonfireXZ95
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[QUOTE="ccagracing"]

I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

Mozelleple112

24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Some people have that fast of download speed or live right near the server. You do realize this, right?
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#57 110million
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[QUOTE="ccagracing"]

I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

Mozelleple112

24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Steam can go as fast as your connection allows, if you can go to 3 or 5 meg per second downloads, so will steam.
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#58 Mozelleple112
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[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"]

[QUOTE="ccagracing"]

I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

DragonfireXZ95

24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Some people have that fast of download speed or live right near the server. You do realize this, right?

And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:
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#59 DJ_Headshot
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i've never had a 1 minute install on a PS3 game....walkingdream
yeah each time i beat a chapter in mgs4 it was like a 8 minute install so in total if i had to do it all at once would have been much closer to an hour then 1 minute...
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#60 Mozelleple112
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[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"]

[QUOTE="ccagracing"]

I bought the full Dragon Age pack (24gb) on steam and it only took including install just over an hour or so. I have waited an hour on a 1GB download from PSN though!

110million

24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Steam can go as fast as your connection allows, if you can go to 3 or 5 meg per second downloads, so will steam.

So this guy is telliing me Steam downloads at 8 megabytes/second but PSN downloads 200kb/s ? ................... :lol: PC fanboys are their magical steam.
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[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="Mozelleple112"] 24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Mozelleple112

Some people have that fast of download speed or live right near the server. You do realize this, right?

And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:

PSN... isn't a fast service, it really isn't

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#62 Mozelleple112
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[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"][QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] Some people have that fast of download speed or live right near the server. You do realize this, right?ohthemanatee

And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:

PSN... isn't a fast service, it really isn't

Its funny how Steam downloads 600kb/s for me. and PSN, strangely enough downloads... 600kb/s too.

Actually, my Steam downloads have 461kb/s average... :| (600kb/s is my max speed)

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#63 DJ_Headshot
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[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="Mozelleple112"] 24 gb download and install in 1 hour? .............................................. :lol: PC fanboys and their magical Steam service.

Mozelleple112

Some people have that fast of download speed or live right near the server. You do realize this, right?

And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:

psn servers are much much slower then steam servers from my experience i was expecting huge gains in dl speed on my ps3 when i upgraded my internet to a 20mb/s fios connection like i saw on my pc with steam and downloads in general but no it was slow in comparasion Steam lets me reach 2.5MB/s when downloading psn doesn't come close.

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#64 bleehum
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[QUOTE="ohthemanatee"]

[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"] And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:Mozelleple112

PSN... isn't a fast service, it really isn't

Its funny how Steam downloads 600kb/s for me. and PSN, strangely enough downloads... 600kb/s too.

I've had steam download 2-3 mb/s, and PSN is much slower for me. Funny, ain't it?

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#65 ohthemanatee
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[QUOTE="ohthemanatee"]

[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"] And yet PSN takes 1 hour to DL 1 gb ........................... :lol:Mozelleple112

PSN... isn't a fast service, it really isn't

Its funny how Steam downloads 600kb/s for me. and PSN, strangely enough downloads... 600kb/s too.

Actually, my Steam downloads have 461kb/s average... :| (600kb/s is my max speed)

as someone who used steam, XBL and PSN the speeds for me are usually the following:

STEAM> XBL > PSN

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#66 DJ_Headshot
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[QUOTE="Mozelleple112"][QUOTE="ohthemanatee"]

PSN... isn't a fast service, it really isn't

bleehum

Its funny how Steam downloads 600kb/s for me. and PSN, strangely enough downloads... 600kb/s too.

I've had steam download 2-3 mb/s for me, and PSN is much slower for me. Funny, ain't it?

Yeah same thing for me i think he's underestimating how fast some people internet really is the fastest plan i could get right now from my isp would let me download at over a 6MB/s