It's mandatory on Sony's next-gen system. Today, at a stylish waterfront hotel in New York City that's been taken over by Sony for all things PS4, the system's lead architect, Mark Cerny, explained just how these requirements work.
If you are playing a disc-based game, the system will begin caching the disc when you put it in the console and get ready to play. The game is saving part of itself to the system's hard drive. The amount of data that has to be saved before you can start will vary per title. 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.
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Reducing the weight of our footer. Screenshot of the Week 52 - Hero Pose! Related 3. Hot Network Questions. Its replay value is high, and the experience is ongoing, so the hybrid gamer prefers to keep it as a digital copy. For other games that are quick to finish, or games that someone would only play once, these hybrid gamers buy the disc. Because they can resell it once they are done and recoup some of the original cost.
There should be information about various technical requirements, including the minimum hard drive space that you need to be able to play the game. Of course, the game may take up a bit more than that, especially once you start saving a lot of extra files related to it.
Many movie rental stores and kiosks also have games available for a variety of consoles. Is There Another Option? How do you buy your games? Eager, bordering overexcited, even, you boot it up, ready to play a game or two with friends and family. Curious to know why today's console video games all seem to require torturous install times, despite being on a disc, we reached out to Philly's gaming guru, Drexel University's Associate Professor of Digital Media Frank Lee , for an answer.
There's in the ballpark of 80 million people who've jumped on board with either a PS4 or Xbox One. And though new consoles are always pegged as upgrades, one obvious downgrade seems to be that, despite buying discs at retail, you still generally have to go home and install the game -- and then download an update, more often than not.
It's not totally unlike buying a PC game. What's the deal with that? Why the need for a game install from the disc when there wasn't a need with previous consoles?
The main reason for this is the tradeoff between cost and speed of the different memories combined with the ever-growing size of the games. And three -- external game disk read by an internal Blu-Ray Player , which is 50 gigabytes. RAM is small in size and fixed at eight gigabytes, but the amount that is available for use is actually much less than that, since the system uses up space.
But when you compare HD to the Blu-Ray Player, HD is on the order of four to six times faster in read speed than Blu-Ray — 25 megabytes per second versus megabytes per second. Because the games have gotten so large, you cannot load the entire game on RAM, meaning pieces of the game must be swapped in and out of RAM.
To keep the wait time to a minimum, most modern games simply install most, if not all, of the game from the game disk onto the HD when you first put it in. As for large updates on "day one," unfortunately, in order to meet a ship deadline e. Perhaps the availability and the assumption that everyone has high-speed Internet access make companies more cavalier about these large "day one" updates.
Just imagine if we had no Internet … if there was a critical bug in the game, they would have to send out all-new physical copies of the games!
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