Soul Calibur IV requires 8.5GB discspace

[Inazuma]

Bit of midnight insanity for you all

According to importer YesAsia, the PlayStation 3 version of Soulcalibur IV will join the ranks of games requiring a substantial installation to the console's hard drive. How substantial? Substantial. About 6.5 GB worth of your HDD, with 2 GB of space on top of that allocated to save data.

Xbox 360 fans may also be in hard drive requirement heaven

http://kotaku.com/5021241/rumor-soulcalibur-iv-requires-xbox-360-hdd-needs-85gb-of-disk-space-on-ps3

It's worth it though

 

[Needles]

Bit of midnight insanity for you all


http://kotaku.com/5021241/rumor-soulcalibur-iv-requires-xbox-360-hdd-needs-85gb-of-disk-space-on-ps3

There are also reports of it only working on 360 consoles with a hard drive, it all seems much for a fighting game.

 

[Kreeeee]

So why does the PS3 version need installing when the 360 one does it with a far smaller cache?

 

[ojste]

hmm ill think ill actually have to upgrade my hd soon, im constantly deleting demos and only have ~10 gig remaining

 

[WatchTower]

There are also reports of it only working on 360 consoles with a hard drive, it all seems much for a fighting game.

I can't understand why Core or Arcade 360's were ever packaged in the first place they're pointless. I bought a Premium and the harddrive was to small. I now have a 512mb memory card a 20gb harddrive and a 120gb harddrive. I may buy an external harddrive for 360 too.

 

[james.miller]

8.5gb for a fighting game is just nuts lol

 

[metachi]

So why does the PS3 version need installing when the 360 one does it with a far smaller cache?

i think its because blu-ray drive is very slow compare to dvd drive,
correct me if im wrong?

 

[Sinny]

2gb of save installs, they seriously must be joking.

Looks like people will end up buying external hdd's.

 

[WatchTower]

If the PS3 can play DVDs why not just put have SC4 on a DVDrom so no installation would be needed to speed load times.

 

[Kreeeee]

If the PS3 can play DVDs why not just put have SC4 on a DVDrom so no installation would be needed to speed load times.

Because sony forces all developers to use blu rays despite 95% of games not needing anywhere near that.

 

[james.miller]

it probably cant play games from dvd anyway

 

[Shamikebab]

What on earth for, no big levels or anything like GTA4

Just sounds like crap developing, DOA4 didn't need it so why should this?

 

[NokkonWud]

There are also reports of it only working on 360 consoles with a hard drive, it all seems much for a fighting game.

That's what I was thinking. Why would a fighting game need installing?
Surely loading the stages and characters is enough. If games like Call of Duty 4 can be played without installing, then having to on Soul Calibur IV seems like poor coding on capcoms behalf.

 

[NokkonWud]

Because sony forces all developers to use blu rays despite 95% of games not needing anywhere near that.

More like 99% or higher. I believe only MGS4 needed Blu-Ray (and that's only because of all the cut-scenes), all the other games on PS3 could be done on DVD and I believe there are over 100 games on PS3 now?

 

[Kreeeee]

More like 99% or higher.

I'm only going by the uncompressed ROMs on torrent sites, but you're right, most are probably padded unnecessarily.

 

[andshrew]

That 2gb save file sure has to be a mistake, probably misread 2000kb as 2gb.

 

[Nismo]

it probably cant play games from dvd anyway

Why?

Most PS2 games are on DVD, aren't they?

 

[dbmzk1]

That's just stupid. It's a sign of lazy developing, nothing more. Sony need to do something about it.

 

[Hostile_18]

What could you possibly need to save thats 2gb? I agree must be a mistake.

 

[dalin80]

i think its because blu-ray drive is very slow compare to dvd drive,
correct me if im wrong?

Your wrong, they have the same average read rate despite the blu-ray only being x2 compared to the 360's dvd drive being x12 I believe.

Insomniac stated on a recent podcast how they had to do some cutting and *unwanted compressing* to get just R+Ctod to fit on a 25gb disc there was no padding or duplicate files.

Plus there is the point where theres a good chance that the game will be for the HDD models of the 360 only as well, but unsurprisingly the usual trolls on here skip over that issue.