PS3 Background Downloading coming next week!!!!

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker



Hahaha...wait until you guys see the memory footprint for their Home/Sims MMO/UI whatever that's coming this fall. Sony is f'ing clueless, glad I returned my PS3.

lololol yeah...losers wont be able to encode their videos, burn discs, browse the net and watch youtube vids while running Home. lolololololololol Sony suXorz

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
it means that you can download while still surfing thru the menus right? Cause before, there was a download progress screen that wouldnt let you do anything until the downloading finished. I think that the 360 also only downloads when a game isnt being played.

yes it will work when you just browser the cross media bar. but the 360 will actually download while playing most games but will disconnect when you go online to play a game via live. not all games follow that but most do and is the general rule for the 360.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: arod

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
it means that you can download while still surfing thru the menus right? Cause before, there was a download progress screen that wouldnt let you do anything until the downloading finished. I think that the 360 also only downloads when a game isnt being played.

yes it will work when you just browser the cross media bar. but the 360 will actually download while playing most games but will disconnect when you go online to play a game via live. not all games follow that but most do and is the general rule for the 360.

oh ok...cause my friend was downloading some demo and we started playing fight night rnd 3 and it automatically paused the download.

But that was the first time I had seen Xbox Live and it is really nice...i hope the Ps3 can get close to that.

 

[Dacalo]

They should have at least made it so that downloading won't be interrupted for PS2 and PS1 games since they are less resource hungry. Oh well, I am sure they will improve in future firmwares.

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
it means that you can download while still surfing thru the menus right? Cause before, there was a download progress screen that wouldnt let you do anything until the downloading finished. I think that the 360 also only downloads when a game isnt being played.

No. The xbox 360 will download even with playing a game. the only time it wont download while playing a game is if your playing multiplayer.

 

[FoBoT]

what a nice feature

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: InlineFive

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
yey...oh wait that should have been on release.

That's what I was thinking. Xbox360 & Wii > PS3

FYI there was no Background downloading on the Xbox360 for atleast 6 months after the console launched.

and there's no background downloading on the wii. hell, there's still no online gameplay with the wii.

 

[ntdz]

PS3 sucks compared to the 360, it's already lost many of it's major exclusives, for good reason.

 

[longhornlump]

Looks like the PS3 will be able to do real background downloading ...

So we knew that the PlayStation 3 1.60 firmware update would add the much requested background downloading function, and we'd heard rumors that background downloading wouldn't work while gaming, but thanks to a press release from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (we hear they've got something going on this week), it looks like the system will be able to download stuff while you're playing games. Apparently, the system will allow you to queue up six pieces of content from the PlayStation Store while using other functions of the system, notably playing games and watching videos (Blu-ray?). These downloads can be tracked using a new "Download Management" menu under the XMB's Network icon. While at first you may think the ability to just queue up downloads while gaming doesn't necessarily mean those downloads will proceed, IGN confirmed with Sony that "you'll be able to play games offline while downloads work in the background, and if you hop online your queue will simply pause until you disconnect." We'll be sure to test out the functionality tomorrow when 1.60 drops.

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/03/21/ps3-1...ground-downloading-works-while-gaming/

 

[austin316]

background downloading will save the PS3. I hate not being able to do anything else when downloading something.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

sweet, real background downloading...still, PS3 sux0rz

 

[blurredvision]

I agree with others who say this should've been possible on day one. Us 360 owners bitched and whined about it for months before Microsoft finally implemented it, surely Sony, in their infinite wisdom, would've caught wind of that.