By Cornelius Wilson on 02/09/08 at 10:35 AM

With Devil May Cry 4's release nigh, players are now finding out about the 20- to 25-minute initial installation required on the PS3, compared to the instant playability available on the Xbox 360, and some concerns have emerged, with reactions being on both sides of the fence.

Some are saying waiting 25 minutes to only scratch 5GB of cache data to the PS3 hard drive seems excessively long, compared to read/write times on modern PCs where a single-sided DVD could be copied to a hard drive in just a few minutes or less. This could be because of the relatively slower speed of 2.5" hard drives like the ones used in the PS3 and laptops (5400RPMs versus the 7200RPMs or 10000RPMs of 3.5" desktop hard drives) combined with the also somewhat slower read time of the early Blu-Ray drives compared to well developed DVD-ROMs in modern PCs and the Xbox 360.



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