I tend to go physical when I can due to the ability to play indefinitely. Physical games also tend to fall in price over time while digital titles often rely on PlayStation sales for savings. PS4 discs can also be resold or traded in to lower the cost of future game purchases. Your system will need to be fully powered on in order to populate your hard drive. Digital games can be installed when using rest mode. Often times, game downloads will be faster when using rest mode.
In some cases, these will iron out game breaking bugs. Games have never been as constantly updated with new content, but that also means being regularly nagged to update your library.
For all of the simplicity of consoles, even the most basic features can be a bit of a head scratcher. But the nature of disc based games is not without its upsides — going physical sometimes means savings, the ability to sell and trade, and a lack of reliance on the internet. Lover of games, tech, nature, and strange electronic music.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. GnomeSlice GnomeSlice I thought most retailers do not accept opened discs as returns.
Either way, downloading the game from disc would certainly be abused by many and thereby lower physical copy sales. ARich there's also PS4 game disc rental service somewhere out there. Actually yeah by 'return' I was making the assumption of a rental but I guess that business isn't as big as it used to be — GnomeSlice. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown.
Screenshot of the Week. Enjoying an evening ride in Days Gone by arghtype. Submit your photo Hall of fame. The Overflow Blog. Cerny said that for the launch game he directed, Knack , users should only have to wait 10s of seconds to play the game.
After that, as you play, the game will stream more content to the console's GB hard drive. Knack will use 37GB of space overall, as noted on the game's box. Obviously, it won't take many games to fill the console's hard drive. Cerny said that there had been some internal discussions at Sony about having the PS4 auto-delete installed data from games that players hadn't used in a while. They decided against it, figuring that gamers would never want to feel 'blindsided' and would prefer to make their data management decisions manually.
Probably a good choice! The disc installation is required on PS4 because the console is not designed to read games off of discs. It's not a PlayStation issue. It's a physics issue. The machine may have a Blu-Ray drive that's about three times faster than the PS3 and sixteen times as much memory, but it's still more expedient for the PS4 to read data from its own hard drive. Cerny said his team had heard too many complaints from current-gen developers about having to wait to load in new levels of games.
Putting the data on the readily-accessible hard drive alleviates that. Not surprisingly, Microsoft's Xbox One requires installation from Blu-Ray, too, and only runs games off the hard drive. If a PS4 user decides to download a game, they will have to wait longer to play.
Cerny couldn't provide as narrow an estimate on how long a player who decided to download Knack would have to wait. That depends in large part on a user's Internet connection speed. Ideally, he said, they wouldn't have to wait more than an hour before beginning to play the partially downloaded games.
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