Sony: PS4's Digital Library Means You Can Play on Any Machine
Blu-ray will also have background installation
Sony has been talking up the PlayStation 4's digital library, explaining that users will be able to play downloaded games on any machine with an Internet connection.
Speaking at Develop in Brighton Sony's Neil Brown, senior team leader in R&D, explained, "You can visit your friends house, you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good. But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world.”
He further explained that a comparable system comes into play when you run Blu-ray disks from your machine, stating that, when you play from a disk "chunks are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player.
"They don’t have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive.”
Not having to wait for the installation is certainly good news. Those 500GB hard disks probably won't take as long to fill up as you'd think, though...
(Via PlayStation Official Magazine)
Speaking at Develop in Brighton Sony's Neil Brown, senior team leader in R&D, explained, "You can visit your friends house, you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good. But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world.”
He further explained that a comparable system comes into play when you run Blu-ray disks from your machine, stating that, when you play from a disk "chunks are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player.
"They don’t have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive.”
Not having to wait for the installation is certainly good news. Those 500GB hard disks probably won't take as long to fill up as you'd think, though...
(Via PlayStation Official Magazine)
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