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Hynad on 11 November 2013
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flagstaad said:
Hynad said:

Because mandatory installs mean full game / digital equivalency?

You're really overreacting here. Here, read this again:

"If you are playing a disc-based game, the system will begin caching the disc when you put it in the console and get ready to play. The game is saving part of itself to the system's hard drive. The amount of data that has to be saved before you can start will vary per title."

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I think you are misunderstanding the part that you are underlining. How much you need to install before starting to play does not mean that the full game will not be installed, and it does requires to install them in full.

The games till now announced, require...

CoD: Ghost: 49GBs

Knack: 35 GBs

Killzone Shadow Fall: 45GBs

Don't know about others, but the average looks like 40GBs per game, so basic PS4 will let you use around 12 games, and then you will start managing your data, and those sizes are without DLC, which can increase the size of the game by a few GBs.


The game is saving part of itself to the system's hard drive. Was also what I was referring to.

But it seems like you're right. The games are caching themselves progressively while you play until they're fully on the HDD. That part, I got wrong. The games do have to be installed because of the limits of the Blu-Ray drive. It's a design choice to make the system be faster. Whatever Superchunk believes.
Now people ask what's the point for discs then? You can uninstall the games once you're done with them, and reinstall them whenever you feel like a nostalgia trek would be nice. Now what happens if it's digital only? You have to wait hours for the game to download again. And depending on your data cap, maybe even pay an extra to your ISP... 

In any case, not a real issue to me. If you'd have to wait until the whole game is installed before playing it, then I'd have an issue with this. But as it stands, I don't play 10 games at the same time, so I don't really care if I have to remove some older games from time to time to make room for newer ones.