Play while installing
Just like everyone I hate having to wait for games to be downloaded and/or installed on my computer or console.
This may already be used in same games that I didn't know about. If so; that's great. But I would love for games to be playable before they're completely on the harddrive. The actual game logic is never all that big, it's always the content, like art and audio that takes a great amount of space.
So why not make sure that the "level 1 data" is handled first, so you can at least play that while waiting for the rest?
When installing Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta), they do just that. You can start using the stuff immediately and to be honest, I don't know what's being done in the background.
I bet you feel like a better person now after reading this!
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