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Yeah, it does help. I just remember an article that came out a month ago (I think it was on 1Up) that talked about why there was an install feature on the PS3 in the first place. Unlike DVD drives which read data at different speeds depending on which part of the disc it reads from (inner to outer track) BRs read at one speed. This creates a problem where as more and more data gets added the slower the BR player gets when reading data from varying points on the disc. However, that's not the only issue. It seems that developers are not properly recording BRDs they way they should, or rather they are not optimizing the data for the medium, but are instead recording to them, or creating the images for the discs as if they were recording data DVDs. Since BR readers don't read the same way this can cause slowdowns, so as a cheat developers are purposefully forcing installs (or doing "mandatory installs" as they called it) to get around their laziness. I look at a game like Dark Sector, a game that has no install, yet runs and loads just as smooth as the 360 version, and I have to wonder why the hell other games aren't like this. That article pretty much told me why.
Getting back to GTAIV (and it's killing me not being able to play it right now), if Rockstar did use the space on the BRD, how much better would GTAIV be? What could they add that would make it stand out from the 360 version, that would take advantage of all that extra space, enhance the game, yet not slowdown it down, or just be fluff?
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