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[Biker19]

Mandatory installs are due to the ROM drive being the bottleneck - they're simply too slow, so installs are a good thing.

I think that most PS3 versions of games had mandatory installs, too, due to the slow, ancient 2x Blu-Ray disc drive.

 

[jordan0386]

Good luck downloading 30-50gb games.

Games will take 1-5 hours to download. Thats not bad, imo.

Just do a wired connection for the download.

 

[killatopak]

Games will take 1-5 hours to download. Thats not bad, imo.

Just do a wired connection for the download.

Eh. That won't be the same for everybody especially with my bandwidth.

 

[wsippel]

Sony's "it can control missiles" reality distortion field is in full effect once again I see. This type of caching is an installation, no matter what Sony wants to call it. Also, you'll still have to wait a while on initial runs. Because it takes more than five seconds to read several gigabytes of data from an optical medium no matter what, and that's what the system has to do - caching, installing, whatever they call it doesn't change that fact.

 

[VillageBC]

Unless disc based mediums have transfer rates approaching HDDs, caching is a good and required thing.

 

[coolasj19]

Sony's "it can control missiles" reality distortion field is in full effect once again I see. This type of caching is an installation, no matter what Sony wants to call it. Also, you'll still have to wait a while on initial runs. Because it takes more than five seconds to read several gigabytes of data from an optical medium no matter what, and that's what the system has to do - caching, installing, whatever they call it doesn't change that fact.

It's definitely not because English isn't Yoshida-sans native language.

 

[Liabe Brave]

Sony's "it can control missiles" reality distortion field is in full effect once again I see. This type of caching is an installation, no matter what Sony wants to call it.

This is a very false equivalency. They're using the language they are to avoid people concluding that PS4 installs will be the same as PS3 installs, not to aggrandize themselves. Just read the most recent Yoshida tweet: he's happy to say it's an install when people are clear what they mean by that.

Also, you'll still have to wait a while on initial runs. Because it takes more than five seconds to read several gigabytes of data from an optical medium no matter what, and that's what the system has to do - caching, installing, whatever they call it doesn't change that fact.

Sure, but the Killzone devs say it's less than 3 minutes, or just over 30 seconds, depending on how you interpret their words. (They might've meant ~2:45 for the first time, ~:35 after that, or they might've meant ~:35 every time, with ~2:45 including the opening cutscenes of the campaign itself.) Either way, it's much less time than waiting on a PS3-style install to finish, despite the bigger assets.