WTH are the game saves huge for GT4?

[fleabag]

I was reorganizing my memory cards because I bought two more because I've been running out of room on the two I had. So as I was looking at it, I noticed that the GT3-Aspec game saves were around 100KB which I thought was reasonable but then as I looked around I saw game saves with ridiculous amounts of memory. For Gran Theft auto series I saw them all approach 1MB which irritated me but I thought was semi resonable. But then I saw the GT4 game saves and I was aghast to see it all the way at 1.4MB!!!! that's more than an a 1/6 of my total memory capacity on that card! How did it become this way? How did it balloon from 100KB to 1.4MB?? This sucks because it means I have to buy another memory card every time a new game comes out..

 

[jhbball]

lol.

 

[XZeroII]

OMG, this is too funny. 10/10 for funny...1/10 for the rant.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You should buy a PS3 60GB or 80GB, since it uses the hard drive for memory cards. At $15 a memory card it will pay for itself in just 33 games.

Or get a reader that's PC-compatible (do they exist?) and xfer cards to your PC instead.

 

[fleabag]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You should buy a PS3 60GB or 80GB, since it uses the hard drive for memory cards. At $15 a memory card it will pay for itself in just 33 games.

Or get a reader that's PC-compatible (do they exist?) and xfer cards to your PC instead.

Problem with the PS3 is that for now it's a one way connection, can only copy directly to the HDD and you can't save back to the memory cards. Now if I could get a memory card to PC solution, that'd be nice. Best thing would be for PS2 emulation to get where PS1 emulation currently is at. (yes that's legal)

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: fleabag

Problem with the PS3 is that for now it's a one way connection, can only copy directly to the HDD and you can't save back to the memory cards.

They fixed that awhile ago, you can copy in both directions now.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Many 360 games allot 4Mb for gamesaves.

 

[fleabag]

But is it really necessary or are the devs being lazy? How can you go from 100KB to 1.4MB? The cars are just as customizable as they've always been, they diary can't be that big, so I don't get it. Do they not compress data? Any console devs can chime in?