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How to get a free health insurance quote. Menu PhillyVoice. January 04, Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do console games need to 'install' from a disc? Video Games Technology. Then the install screen hits, and the whole plan is just ruined. The world is full of questions we all want answers to, but are either too embarrassed, time-crunched or intimidated to actually ask.
With Infrequently Asked Questions , we set out to answer those shared curiosities. The PlayStation 5 will soon replace the all three models' now-outdated hardware, possibly even with backward compatibility for Ps4 and earlier PlayStation system games. In the meantime, PS4 owners are stuck with slow load times and slower updates.
Many PS4 owners, while sitting through potentially hour-long copying sessions, likely wonder why the PS4 needs to copy updates in the first place. Often, a rather small patch for a game will download in almost no time at all, but then the PS4 enters the "Copying update file The PS4's copying update data process seems to have been added sometime in possibly in system update 4. Essentially, what Sony calls "copying" appears to be an extra safe way of installing smaller-than-normal update files. Most major game releases these days require hefty launch-day patches anyway, and as Hines pointed out, the console versions of the game will be on Blu-ray discs, which can store 25GB per layer, while the PC version will be on DVDs that hold just 4.
But when pressed about why PC games in general are so often restricted this way, he offered a simple, one-word answer: 'Piracy. That response went over about as well as you'd expect, but Hines was unapologetic. Lots of people bought Skyrim, Wolf, etc. I know as well as anyone how intensely frustrating and infuriating a mandatory, multi-gigabyte download on a wonky connection can be, especially when the game you purchased is sitting beside you on a disc.
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.
Other games may be set up differently, allowing users to start playing them sooner or requiring them to wait longer.
With these kinds of download speeds and requirements, players may want to queue their PS4 downloads long before they want to start gaming or download in the background while doing something else. Or just drive to the store and get a disc. We'll have much more about the PS4 in the coming days as well as a review of the system at 9am ET, on Wednesday, November To contact the author of this post, write to stephentotilo kotaku.
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