Cheap Ass Gamer user 'dumlaox' has stumbled upon the fact that there is no longer a minimum game install size of 3.4 GB for games installed to your HDD. Anyone using the new dashboard update released a few days ago as part of the preview program will notice that games overall are appearing to be smaller. King of Fighters XII clocks in at 703 MB. Why the sudden change (and no word from Microsoft...yet), who knows but there seems to be the potential to save quite some space with this new update.
GameDynamo - "Fighting games have enjoyed a period of spectacular growth after being a nearly nonexistent genre for so many years prior. Because of this sudden growth, we're seeing a lot of companies taking different approaches to the traditional fighting game formula that has stood since Street Fighter II first came onto the scene."
The Start Screen reviews King Of Fighters XII for the PS3. They cover how far fighting games have come and with the showing that SNK Playmore's KOF XII, how far we need to go. The game was seemingly released incomplete with an time trial for an Arcade Mode and a seemingly broken online mode. Did the 772 MB patch help?
Level7: At first glance, it looks good, but how is it in the long run?
King of Fighters is an old boat to the fighting series that competed with Capcom's Street Fighter series for many years now. With some twelve SNK Playmore takes a different approach than Capcom, and remains in the two-dimensional plane. The result is aesthetically pleasing, but the content of oh so limited.
Better compression technology I assume? This would be great for multidisc games.
I did not notice this. Good find .
How did they manage that?
Arent the installs meant to reduce loading time, if they are compressing stuff the loading would get bigger.
Seems like MS are doing the impossible, no wonder they didnt back bluray
Halo 3 has always been one of the few games that performs worse. I'm hoping some one tests it out soon because the size is smaller...perhaps that will lead to better performance off of the HDD?
I won't get to see all the changes that got made :( , thank you Microsoft.