Final Fantasy XIII Will Go Easy On Your Hard Drive
I can’t say that I’ve ever had any real problems with HDD installs for PS3 games, as it typically streamlines the experience and makes things run much smoother for the player in the long run, but for those of you who may get a tad bit peeved over this memory munching feature, you’ll be pleased to know that Final Fantasy XIII will have absolutely no HDD install, with all portions of the game streaming straight from the disc.
This was discovered after the Official EU PlayStation Blog’s interview with with the game’s producer, Yoshinori Kitase, and director, Motomu Toriyama.
From the interview:
Will there be a hard drive install available?
There is no installation, the game runs directly from the disc.
This should be good news for those who may have been stunned to hear that Bioshock 2 and Heavy Rain will each be eating up around 5GB of space. Oh, so many awesome titles, so little drive space…
21 Responses to “Final Fantasy XIII Will Go Easy On Your Hard Drive”
I guess that is good news. That 5 gigs of space can be used towards something else, like downloading porn on your PS3
@Xael – hahaha, how true. I can’t say I’m surprised, I think most multiplatform games would be designed this way since 360 isnt guaranteed to have a hard drive. It’d be nice if they gave the PS3 owners the option to install so we can reduce load times, but maybe the load times aren’t too bad as is?
I do not agree with no install policy!
there should be at least an optional install, the BRD drive will suffer from continuous usage and you can’t replace it as easily as you can in a PC
@zme-ul
are you aware of the life cycles of blu ray drives? or let alone any drive? based on your response , i can tell you dont.
Will not be buying this game, just going to borrow it from my friend.
@TheHater
From your username, you didn’t need to type anything and we would’ve guessed your post wouldn’t have been positive towards the game.
Hey TheHater has contributed many good leads and positive comments over the time I have seen. But anyway on topic. I will get this but think I will have more fun with all the other RPGs that are coming out.
@NivekKom
I guess you must be new to the sign?.
borrow for about 3 months, I hope you realize.
I don’t think I like the fact that there is no installation…I feel like that just means the game has been cut back due to the limitations of the 360 and its DVD drive.
@TheHater
Yup.
@WaveCom
I was in no way insulting TheHater, just pointing out what I saw here.
@giese095
Have you played it yet? I’ve tried about 5 minutes in a store in HK and the graphics are impressive I must say but gameplay, can’t really judge yet – it was in Japanese..
@NivekKom
“ave you played it yet? I’ve tried about 5 minutes in a store in HK”
For a second there, I thought you said HK playstation store. I was about to jump on my HK PSN account and download the demo
@Max Murray
3 months? No even a week.
That’s great news.
how is this news?
in japan a week prior to release this was announced, and anyone with a JP copy like myself can tell you it runs perfectly without a HDD install
@NivekKom
thats a typical response from him… unless hes getting put in place by Johhnytruant5 which forces him to use his brain matter for some backs.
@shadowjin, but I do
even cost wise, a HDD is cheaper than replacing a defective BRD drive on the PS3
also .. the HDD on the PS3 can be swapped in like 10minutes with just a screwdriver
The game may run fine without the install but any hard drive support would only improve in game performance. Its a shame that they dont have the support. Really most people dont mind the space on the hard drive. Personally i think that everyone anyways gets a bigger hard drive anyways, now with the prices being so low due to SSDs.
^ i disagree, theres no need for a lot of people to do it so they dont, i had a 55 gig one and nearly 2,000 trophies and only upgraded it because of game data’s *yakuza 3, dragon age, and white knight were killing it between my psn titles* but most people dont care that much and wont spend the money to upgrade *its more than a game which most people rather get* the ps3 doesnt sort videos well, and overall has no real reason to upgrade the HDD
I will agree that FF XIII has some load times, the average to load chapter 11 *i did it for like 100 hours =P* was 6 seconds, and saving took like 2, but overall it never even got close to bayonetta bad, and the game was COMPLETELY fluid in the area that you loaded no matter the size, you get like 5 seconds to get on a chocobo *mostly due to animation* takes like 4 seconds *mostly animation* to start the fight, but after its loaded ive never seen lag which makes the point useless =\
@zme-ul
than i take back my statement… idk, people should play games and worry less.
I always fail to discover why a lot of people hate it when a game won’t have HDD install. Installing the bloody game data on your HDD is an advantage, you won’t have to wait for a long time to load. Plus HDDs are replaceable so if you have a small HDD do yourself a favor and buy a bigger one. This is bad news regarding FF XII to me.
isn’t that hard to upgrade a PS3 Hard Drive, and price wise, it’s a better deal then paying $30 for a 8MB PS2 memory card, $60 can get you a very good size HDD.