Questions about the PS3?

May be...

i have never played games online before. i currently have a ps2. ive heard that the ps3 has online play for free. can you tell me how you would play online? do you need to buy anything extra? how do you connect online?





also ive heard that you have to install games into the ps3. can you tell me what you know about that?

If you have internet there is nothing else need for the ps3 to go online. You simply hook the ps3 up to the router with an ethernet cable or if you have a wifi router you can use the built in wifi in the ps3 . Each game that is playable online has within the actual game menu, an option for online play. You select it and you are online playing.



Game installs are when games like Racteht and Calnk ftod are pt in the ps3 there are a few a very few files that are installed to your ps3. For ratchet and clank ftod there are 445mg, the actual game plays from the 50 gig blueray game disc. There are 1000 mgs per every 1 gig so if you have the 40 gig you can see that the game installs for load time sake are very minimal.



Games like Metal gear solid 4 , because of the online play and elaborate menu system and the fact that the game itself is over 50 gigs, that game installs about 4gig onto the ps3 harddrive and the rest of the 50 gig game plays from the 50 gig blueray disc.



Game installs can be removed without affecting game save files. So if you haven't played a game in a while you can delete the game install and still have your game save file for future use if you go back to playing that game.