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Forums - Sony - How I Love the PlayGo Feature on PS4 (IMO)

I was already impressed with Killzone: Shadown Fall... I put the disc and in less than 20 seconds I was playing.

Now again...

inFAMOUS: Second Son... put the disc and some seconds later playing.

This is one of the best features created this generation... it is so fast.

What is the PlayGo?

 

PlayGo (by using a secondary custom chip) allows immediate start of supported games, with only the need of the first chunk of game data. The following chunks are downloaded/installed independant of the mainprocessor and relinked/copied when complete. Order of chunks can be rearranged as game progresses (e.g. user takes a different road in game, thus requiring different maps/data). There seem to be a maximum of 100 chunks, with no limit of size.

If users prefer to play their game directly from disc, PS4 will install data to the hard drive during play.

Similarly, system updates are downloaded seamlessly in the background without interruption.

PS4 also features technology that attempts to determine trends, including titles a gamer is likely to express interest in next, and then automatically download a small percentage of those games in the background, even in sleep mode.

Killzone: Shadow Fall supports the PS4's PlayGo functionality, allowing players get gaming before the whole game (39.7GB ) is downloaded, but it's been confirmed that this initial download is still a sizeable 7.5GB.

http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/PlayGo



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So, for those of us that don't own a ps4, Play Go basically starts your game up really fast?



                  

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Im gonna edit your thread title ethomaz. No bad language in them titles!



                            

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

So, for those of us that don't own a ps4, Play Go basically starts your game up really fast?

Well... every game on PS4 is full installed on the system so the PlayGo make you start to play the game in some seconds while it install it.

So for example... when you play a game with installation on PS3 you need to wait until it finishes the installation to play it... in PS4 you start to play right after put the disc on the tray.



ethomaz said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

So, for those of us that don't own a ps4, Play Go basically starts your game up really fast?

Well... every game on PS4 is full installed on the system so the PlayGo make you start to play the game in some seconds while it install it.

So for example... when you play a game with installation on PS3 you need to wait until it finishes the installation to play it... in PS4 you start to play right after put the disc on the tray.

Ohh, thanks, thats pretty cool



                  

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I thought you were talking about how KZSF and ISS bother skip any splash screens, and jump right to the game. I love both features.



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I was thinking to move to Digital but this feature makes me face why I will continue with retail discs... nothing pleasure me more than get home with a new game in hands and just put it on the tray to begin the fun.

BTW I found this link... I will add to OP: http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps4/PlayGo



It's ont of the feature i was the most hyped for when it was announced.
Of course it sounds like nothing important, and of course it's not what makes you buy a console, but that's a very impressive and welcomed tech.



Anything to get into the game faster. That was probably my favorite thing about cart based games.



ClassicGamingWizzz said:
now imagine me that have the game in the disc, takes 3 seconds , press the button and bam you are playing and no menus


Maybe if anyone knew what you were saying they could try to imagine it O_o