Digital Foundry tests loading and install times of various PS3 games with different hard drives and evaluates upgrade options
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
FANTASTIC GUIDE
Pretty informative article. I need to buy an SSD for my laptop, and replace the 320GB drive, which I'll then use in me PS3.
Some of this stuff I know, but it helps me find other hard drives for my PS3.
I already need 1tb.
This was a very well written guide, and actually I've recently upgraded my PS3's HDD to a WD Scorpio Black 7200rpm, 16MB cache drive. I chose this drive for a few reasons. The price difference between the Scorpio Green and Black tends to be close enough to warrant spending the extra $10-20 for the Black drive. The increased speed appeals to me, and overall I was interested in personally experiencing the difference (especially given that there has been few guides as well written as this one to detail each drive's benefits and flaws). Lastly, for the size and speed increase, this seems the best option for the amount it costs. The SSD and hybrid drives were significantly more expensive.
The one thing they don't quite touch on that's worth noting, is that due to the increased cache in some drives (over the normal 8MB cache in the stock drives), you'll notice during gameplay on certain games that some things will load in smoother and faster (this is aside from what the article is mentioning about load times and install times).
For example, I've noticed that on my old stock 5400 rpm, 8MB cache drive, certain games such as Borderlands would end up having some loading issues with textures when zoning into a new area. The textures would take sometimes 10-15 seconds to all properly load, and they would pop-in relatively harshly. Since upgrading my drive, these same textures load much smoother, and I've seen them coming in within 5 seconds now. This isn't the only benefit to this however.
Another added bonus, seems to be the loading time for accessing the XMB. I tend to get messages relatively often in-game, and so I've noticed that with the stock drive, loading the XMB could sometimes take a while, and the objects on whatever menu you are accessing would also take time to individually load in. This has also been drastically reduced, and almost consistently I've noticed all the object simultaneously loading in now, instead of individually. Anyway, I just thought I'd add this in for anyone who's interested.
Don't put a 7200RPM HDD in a PS3 slim unless you stand it vertically.
I took my fast HDD out of my old PS3 model and into the slim. The PS3 slim started to overheat.
I don't have a vertical stand yet. I placed two 1" thick boards underneath and spaced them as far apart as I could so the underside had more clearance. No issues since. I recommend finding rubber legs thicker than the ones on there now.