People tell me to set up a proxy server to decrease download times, because slow download speeds are enough of a problem that such bizarre workarounds exist.

So the update downloads, it installs, the system restarts, and there goes twenty minutes of my life I'll never get back. What does this update do? It fixes the first update, the one I didn't want. On any other system, it would have been minutes.įast-forward to this week, when I wanted to revisit ModNation Racers to see if the new patch improved loading times. I turned on my system, popped the game in, and was gobsmacked to see that the system forced me to grab yet another update. When I saw just how slowly the download was moving, I was tempted to buy it on the Xbox 360 with my own money instead of using the review code supplied to Ars, but I persevered.Īll told, it was over an hour before I was actually playing the game. Then I had to actually download the game from the PlayStation Store, which took an amazingly long time compared to what I'm used to from Xbox Live or Steam. Gee, thanks.) The process took 30 minutes.

(The update gave Sony the ability to suggest things to me. The last time I tried to play a game on the console, I was forced to download a mandatory update, which added a feature I didn't care about. Why does it feel like I'm being punished every time I try to play a game on my PlayStation 3? Frankly, I'm starting to think even Sony wants you to choose Microsoft. When it comes to high definition, multiplatform console games, you have a choice: you can go Sony or you can go Microsoft.

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