It has been revealed today that the PlayStation 3 version of Mortal Kombat will have a large mandatory install.
Just Push Start has been tipped off that Mortal Kombat will take up a lot of the hard drive space, with the install weighing in at a gigantic 4GB! Before playing the game at all this install must be fully installed which may take some time. While the 4GB installation isn’t close to Gran Turismo 5’s install it is one of the larger mandatory installs.
With other highly anticipated games such as Portal 2 not having a mandatory install it’s weird that such a big install is needed. What is your opinion of mandatory installs? Comment below.
joe
April 14, 2011 at 10:43 PMAnother reason why i’m annoyed of my ps3… Mandatory installs i mean what the hell is the point of having a disc especially the “almighty blu ray” if i still gotta install.
dale
April 15, 2011 at 1:12 AMGood. I thknk the installs before games make them run smoother and in total is a great way for the playstation to grab data quickly – reducing load times, and generally containing full HD games unlike the xbox 360 which lacks in some cutscene elements.
Kapado
April 15, 2011 at 1:41 AMi agree its a blu ray ,GOW3 and Uncharted2 had no installs so i dont want to see these other games with it, LAZY developers GT5 im looking at you too.
If kratos wasnt in the game i would press cancel on my amazon account.
Dyla
April 15, 2011 at 3:14 AMI dont see the big deal, so it has a mandatory, like it was stated by dale, it all helps processing the information quicker. We gonna start complaining about having to install games on our PCs next? o.O
James V
April 15, 2011 at 4:07 AMproblem with the PS3 is the really slow bluray drive… hence having installs, also why are quite a few games on 360 at 1080p yet the PS3 version isnt…
tarbis
April 15, 2011 at 11:13 AMThose installs make the PS3 blu-ray drive lives last longer. If the ps3 bd drive is at 6x or higher we won’t need those installs at all.
Dave
April 19, 2011 at 2:21 AMYou almost all games on consoles don’t run at 1080p they just output at that profile while the game is truly rendered at something lower. Like taking a picture and blowing it up, in most cases it looks no better in some it looks worse
Albert
January 21, 2015 at 8:56 PMSo am I just supposed to wait forever for it to install!?? I just bought the disk and it’s only giving me a black screen with the MK logo