I came to visit my mom today and found an Xbox One under the TV. It seems my little bro purchased one, so my mom would exercise using Dance Central (yes, I know good excuse hehhehe) but I'm stoked! Being a multi platform owner of previous generations this brought tears to my eyes since I do not need to buy one anymore and I can just borrow it. Sweetness! (ReCore! We have a future)

My only question is, is there no way to avoid downloading the entire game on the console when playing from a physical disc? My bro has COD3 and NBA2k16 and they kinda ate up 100GB between them and he still got AC: Black Flag and AC: Unity to download (those came free with the unit)

Well its the same as the PS4 you have to install the entire game to the HDD in order to play it. But it supports external HDD so expanding HDD space takes no effort.

Dangit on the installtion of the full game. I guess external HD would be the final solution. Thanks thanks~~

Your brothers a cool dude if he allows you to borrow his console. At best I would only allow my sister to play mine for 30 minutes .

Go external, it allows for faster downloads too.

As for installing a game on either the PS4 or the XB1 you can do this via digital download or by media which in this case is a Bluray disk. For digital downloads the time take is dependent on your internet performance between your console (the same applies to PC's) and the content provider, which for the XB1 is Microsoft. Some players have excelent internet perforace and can download at well over 30 MB/sec and some are lucky if they can download at 500 kB/s. In addition performance can vary dramatically over the course of the day.

With a media install you are only limited to the read speed of the Bluray device and the write performace of your storage disk which is always the limiting factor. Note that for a 5400 rpm hard disk (normally the default for console) write performance is approximatey 20 MB/s.  Installing from digital media has the bonus of you not needing to wait very long to actually start playing the game although this does depend on the game. I think some digital download games can let you do something similar but I am not sure.

Either way to completey play the game it must be fully installed and normally this is actualy done in what is called "the background" which means the download continues to install even if you are doing someting else. If you are waiting, well you are waiting.

Many forums discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital download verse media install. Which one you choose really depends on you keeping in mind that if you remove the game and wish to reinstall via digital download at a later date you may have a long wait for the game to be fully installed again if your internet download capabilty is relatively slow.

A word of caution, some internet providers offer unlimited upload and download, however some will throttle or reduce your speed dependent on the overall network usage. Other providers do have caps in place such that when you exceeed a certain number of Giga Bytes you are charged extra or severly throttled.

You don't download the game you install it. The only thing that downloads is an update file if the game has one.

Nope, this was a request from developers.  With the Xbox 360 games were required to be able to run from the DVD.  While they did allow certain exceptions later on, the developers complained that this requirement held back some of the things they wanted to do as it was limited to the DVD9 read speed.  So for the Xbox One they said all games are completly installed on the hard drive.

So the disk itself is just DRM.  It doesn't to anything, which is why they wanted to let you install games and run them from your gamertag which is how they originally showed at the first showing of the Xbox One.

But you can always delete any digital game and redownloaded it later for free as many times as you want.

You don't on the PS4. I recently bought Dying Light and was playing it in minutes.

Really? That's food for thought. I just realized my bro got the Assassins Creed Bundle (that's why those games are free). Could have went with RoTR or Halo 5 but nope! lol!

Oh well, its his console. I'll be couching in the house once I get the games that I want. D@mn Sunset Overdrive was not available in the game store near our area must check my work place area. Hehehe ^^