Why PS3 games install

The reason as to why a certain amount of Playstation 3 games require an install. Its because its quicker to read the game data from the hard drive rather than the Blu-Ray disc. This also means shorter loading times during gameplay. "I bet your now thinking does that mean every game will be installed to the hard drive", the answer is no. Look at Call of Duty 4 and Uncharted Drake’s Fortune, they didn’t require an install and ran fantastically well. Game developers are working around this by taking a more pro-active approach to Blu-Ray’s data transfer technology. Some are working with streaming methods that load data while your playing, others are duplicating frequent required data around the disc so it can be located and loaded up faster.

Chief software architect at Eutechnyx, Dr Andrew Perella says:
“The biggest benefit of loading data from hard drive as opposed to Blue-ray is that the seek times are lower. Games that make use of lot of user customisations are hit hard by this as the developer cannot know ahead of time what will need to be loaded”

Pete Hines of Bethesda, the vice president of public relations and marketing says:
“we get around it by doing caching to the hard drive behind the scenes. And yes, we do have more than one copy of data on the disc in different locations to make the streaming process faster.”
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8 stupid things people say about PS3..

This has to be one of my favorite youtube videos for ps3. My favorite part was number 3. Check it out, and enjoy.
-WorseCase

SACKBOY's a Trophy Whore :)

LittleBigPlanet to feature Trophy support

Media Molecule Co-Founder and Technical Director, David Smith, has confirmed the inclusion of Trophy support in the developer’s highly anticipated PlayStation 3 title, LittleBigPlanet.

Speaking with Eurogamer during a live chat, Smith commented, "We've been having a lot of fun working out what trophies most fit our game. Because we have this catchphrase of 'Play, Create, Share', the trophies (and indeed some of the other scoring systems) reflect this.”

He also touched on the requirements for unlocking one of the game’s trophies, stating that players would have to make their "sackperson be thrown at some huge velocity," suggesting that a user created machine would be needed to accomplish the task.

LittleBigPlanet is due out exclusively on PS3 later this year.

PS3 Firmware 2.4 Taken Off The Servers

The highly anticipated 2.4 Firmware update for the PS3 has been taken off of the Sony servers because of the problems occuring with the update. Thank God I got mine before they took it off of the servers and sorry to the people waiting.

Some of the Problems I Am Experiencing:

Freezing Systems
Laggy Games
Buzzing In Call of Duty 4 Chat

blip74 says; My MAIN issue with the firmware update is that it has screwed with my connection while in CHAT, can't stay on server. There is no IN-GAME CHAT and the IN-GAME music is Half-Ass. Give me delays cause what you gave me was 2.shit.