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Norris2k on 18 October 2014
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Brutalyst said:
Barozi said:
Brutalyst said:

Having been lucky enough to own both an XBox One and a PS4, I find the install times on the XBO ridicuous. 

The PS4 can install a game in around 60 seconds, yet to install Forza Horizon 2 took almost an hour!

 

Im just curious if anyone knows why they huge difference in time it takes on each console and if ever in the future Microsoft could release a patch that reduces this?

EDIT: I dread to think how long it will take me to install Halo MCC with the patch as well :(

You should compare games that have about the same size.

A game that can be copied within 60 seconds on a HDD can't be much bigger than 6GB. Horizon 2 is 36GB.

But I think you're confusing things. PS4 needs just as long to install a game, but you are able to start the game earlier.

I recently swapped the PS4 500 gb HDD for a 2TB one, and the first thing I did was re-install all the games. Even the largest games like TLOU which takes 50gb only took less than 60 seconds and I removed the disc. UNless it only part installed it and even though I removed the disc it would continue to install the next time I put the disc back in? (I guess it might be doing that, no way to tell or see it though)

Exactly, the install is not finished. The PS4 BR drive's speed is 27 MB/s, so it would take 30 minutes to copy 50 GB from the disk. In fact if would probably take twice as much.

As it was said before, what the PS4 does is installing what is required step by step, like a stream. So, why doing that on the PS4 and not on the XOne ? First, the XOne can do that, there is absolutely no physical impossibility, and some games probably do or will do it.  So, again, why not on most games ? We can only assume... it could be a better development kit for data management on the PS4 or a more efficient installation system (that would be harder to fix), but it could also be that with a better hardware (memory speed for sure, DMA ? ), dedicated cpu, or whatever, the PS4 can manage to have both better graphics and seemless install, while the XOne can't, it would impact the framerate/graphics that are already not as good.