PS3 Games using the HDD for extreme load times

[JTK]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/742/742347p1.html

Famitsu PS2 quizzed Teramoto on one area that's on everyone's mind right now: hard disk support. Ridge Racer 7 makes extensive use of the PS3's hard disk. In addition to saving your game and saving future download contents, the hard disk is used for speeding up gameplay. The game does a hard disk install to the tune of five gigabytes.

This is why you want the 60 gig PS3, folks.

Dave had mentioned several weeks back the idea of swapping out for some 100+ gig SATA hard drive if he ever felt like it. Can that really be done?



In any event, I think this is excellent news.

I'm all for anything by any means necessary that reduces or even eliminates load times.

Load times really should almost be complete relics of the past anyways by this point.