PS3 Rant: Games Taking Longer to Install?
Ever since the PS3 launched, I recall that games would take some time to decompress and install into the system. That is perfectly fine. I realize that games need to be compressed because they are on the online store and it behoves Sony to compress it and decompress once it is on your system. I have, however, recently seen a longer wait time than normal for games to decompress and install. It first hit me last week when the Simpson’s demo came out. I swear I was waiting for some time before it decompressed fully. I think I even nodded off while it did (okay I was tired but still!). The games just sit there for a minute or two before it even starts to install. It might be my imagination, but the installation and decompression part seems to take longer than previously. I assumed it was my huge amount of demos or games that are loaded on my PS3 so I systematically deleted a bunch of stuff (including videos) but it didn’t help. I actually went back to games that I had previously installed and downloaded and it seems like they are taking longer than previously as well. I think that there was an issue with the recent update/patch that is making demo/game installs take longer than normal. I could suspect that is my hard drive and it is about to come to a halt but everything else seems to be as zippy as it once was. In fact, the XMB actually seems faster than previous. I hope it is code that they fix because if I nod off again while I am installing a game I am going for therapy lol.
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