Kotaku: Mark Cerny Explains How Mandatory Game Installations Will Work On PS4

[Hynad]

superchunk said:

Hynad said:

The story doesn't say that every single games will require that much space on the HDD. You'll be able to install what, at least 15-20 games on a 500GB HDD?

Not that big a deal.  Especially since Cerny explained that the games will install themselves gradually in most cases. You'll get to start playing it almost from the get go. 

Take it with whatever lube you want, you're still getting f'ed. IMO

Disc game should be disc game. All this leads to is DRM and complete loss of ownership as stated in each companies EULA. Nintendo will follow eventualy unfortunately.

All the screams and yelling after E3 are in vain in the long run. Digital future is only choice you'll have... boo.

There's a reason other than what you assume (DRM). Games are bigger than ever now, when it comes to data. And the data just can't be streamed fast enough from the BD to the system. So, just like with PCs, consoles need to compensate for this shortcoming by installing key content on the HDD. You're right when you say Nintendo won't have a choice to do that too eventually. Most likely for their next console. They'll be faced with the same problem if they don't go digital only.