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Martin Tithonium
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13 March 2011 @ 05:43 pm
I realize none of this is news. But i wanted to share.  
At Fry's the other day, I picked up a random PS3 game, Fracture, for $10. I just tried to play it.

1) system software update. Ok, I haven't used the thing for a couple months, that's reasonable.

2) you have to re-sign in to psn.
Fine.
3) you have to reagree to the terms.
Agree.
4) you have to re-sign in to psn.
Idiots.

Start game.
5) there is a software update for this game.
Ugh.

Start game.
6) installing game files. Please wait. With a completion timer starting at 5 minutes.
5 minutes pass.

7) "Press Start"

Total elapsed time since I put the disc in, about 25-30 minutes.

And now it's time to leave for dinner.
 
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juli[info]caladri on March 14th, 2011 12:46 am (UTC)
Wow! I haven't used a current-generation game console so that awfulness certainly comes as news to me. Most of the people I know who I've talked about PS3 use with only play offline games and so never deal with system updates, specifically because they don't want to lose legitimate paths to PS3 Linux. I am surprised that it's that awful; I would've expected all of the software update stuff to be centralized enough (including for game updates) that you'd handle it all at once, as opposed to this Windows-circa-2001 crap.
sprockets, sockets, grommets & gaskets[info]randomdreams on March 14th, 2011 02:46 am (UTC)
As I don't use the Windows partition for anything other than playing flight sim, I have a fairly similar experience every time I boot Windows: it fires up, mumbles for a bit, then announces it has to restart. Gah. Live kernalswapping has something to be said for it.
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