Taking cues from one of the PlayStation 4′s key new features, Naughty Dog’s The Last Of Us will be playable as it downloads, should you opt for the (no doubt massive) digital version.
Speaking to GI, Naughty Dog said that when the game releases in the middle of June, you’ll be able to start playing it when the game gets to about 50% downloaded.
We’d suspect this isn’t nearly the same tech that the PS4 uses, and that there’ll be an initial download and install followed by the rest of the game which simply downloads in the background.
Regardless, this is to celebrated. The two level demo is huge, so we can only imagine how big the full game will be – the option to start before it’s all downloaded is great.
source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2013/05/17/the-last-of-us-can-be-played-while-its-still-downloading/
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
