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PS3’s Genji uses HDD to quarter load times

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Straight from Joystiq: “Before jumping into Genji to deal some massive damage to historically accurate giant crabs (nyuk nyuk) during Sony’s Gamer’s Day event on Thursday, MTV News’ Stephen Totilo noticed a curious menu option:

INSTALL

What’s this all about? Totilo writes, “Also unexpected was a feature in Genji to install the game, committing 4GB of data from the game’s Blu-ray disc to the PS3’s hard drive — a three-minute one-time-only procedure available from the game’s start menu that a Sony rep said cuts down in-game load times from about 15 seconds to four seconds.”"

Written by Jason Jeffrey

October 25, 2006 at 1:19 pm

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