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

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superchunk said:

Hynad said:

You're kidding, right? Most Nintendo games would fit on a DVD. Some third party games are bigger, like the example I gave, Lego City Undercover. And guess what? The loading times in that game are very long. But that's just one part of the problem.  With the ever increasing data transfer rate of GPUs, the optical drive transfer rates have become a bottleneck. Installing content is a workaround to this limitation. Believe in your conspiracy theory as much as you want. That won't change the facts.

CODGHOSTS on all three next-gen are very comparable. Only a tiny difference in cutscenes. I'm sure watchdogs and ac4 are the same. LEGO City is likely due to it being a new game on a new system... not disc read issues.

Plus, a minor install of a GB or something to help with critical data is not the same thing as full game / digital equivalency.

You will not have minor installs on 4BONE. Reading from a disc and the HD is great and was used a lot this gen, but it caused the digital versions to suffer.

Both MS and Sony are having disc based games played off the HD so that digital and disc versions have identical performance.