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wouldn't you just download it when you wanted it - which would probably be never for most of the stuff? I don't understand why so many people want to keep everything on their HDD. What's the point of digital if you're treating it like a physical item you have to store locally.

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Imagine if I stored my entire Steam folder of 200+ games. I would expect it to clock in at at least 800 GB due to the amount of older, less large games. Recent games, however, are big as shit. For example, if I delete Shadow of Mordor and Wolfenstein The New Order from my Steam folder, I'll have about 80 GB back (surprisingly, Wolfenstein beats out Mordor with ~44 GB to ~35 GB). My current install runs about 400 GB for some perspective. I have 60 other games installed.

 

Must be those delicious sound files... or large texture files for 4k gaming. I might be having storage issues myself soon enough...

 

Edit: But yeah, delete stuff if you are done. If you are unwilling... get used to it.

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I have a terabyte of my steam games stored on a backup HDD...

 

I just hate thinking I'd have to download 40GB games again if I wanted to play them, or check something out. But I guess I could delete games I would probably never touch again, but right now only Watch Dogs fit into that criteria.

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I just hate thinking I'd have to download 40GB games again if I wanted to play them, or check something out.

Yeah, this. I don't want to have to wait 3 hours when I decide I want to play a game. Isn't the whole point of digital that it's supposed to be more convenient than physical?

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I've come to accept the fact that my backlog is so big that I probably won't revisit a lot of games, so a lot of my bigger Steam stuff is gone now.

 

I'd probably do the same with PS4, but I don't see myself reaching the limit anytime soon (and even then, you can replace the HDD). On the plus side, you can start playing PS4 stuff while it's downloading/installing anyway?

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I just hate thinking I'd have to download 40GB games again if I wanted to play them, or check something out.

Yeah, this. I don't want to have to wait 3 hours when I decide I want to play a game. Isn't the whole point of digital that it's supposed to be more convenient than physical?

 

 

Except isn't the install size the same for both digital and physical? My understanding was the blu-rays install the game for you so you don't need to download, but after that you just need the blu-ray in your PS4 to verify you actually own the game.

 

Either way, my harddrive got full earlier this week, so I purged a bunch of games, which is annoying. I wonder what the best internal 2TB drives for PS4 are?

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The install size is the same but downloading from disc is obviously MUCH faster. We're never going to go all digital until the telecoms are forced to give us faster speeds, and who knows when that will be?

Yeah, that. Installing 40GB from disc takes 10 minutes, and many games you can play while installing. Installing 40GB from the internet takes a couple hours, and PS4 doesn't yet let you play while downloading.

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The install size is the same but downloading from disc is obviously MUCH faster. We're never going to go all digital until the telecoms are forced to give us faster speeds, and who knows when that will be?

Yeah, that. Installing 40GB from disc takes 10 minutes, and many games you can play while installing. Installing 40GB from the internet takes a couple hours, and PS4 doesn't yet let you play while downloading.

 

 

Wait, really? I don't have a PS4 yet but my friend was talking about how he could instantly play Shadow of Mordor and did the tutorial. Or was that more so like how they have the PS+ trials?

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I believe that some games you can play while partially downloaded, but your mileage may vary. If I remember correctly, The Last of Us lets you start the single player at about 20% or so, but Garden Warfare only let me do a tutorial until the game was 100%. I think it just depends on the developer.

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Once the initial download finishes, you won't see the rest of the game download on the Downloads menu under Notifications, nor the download bar on the horizontal menu (the game icon). But if you check the "Information" of the game, you'll see it says 6GB/25GB. You can play it then, and the rest of the game downloads in the background. You can only check the progress of the background download from there.

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Once the initial download finishes, you won't see the rest of the game download on the Downloads menu under Notifications, nor the download bar on the horizontal menu (the game icon). But if you check the "Information" of the game, you'll see it says 6GB/25GB. You can play it then, and the rest of the game downloads in the background. You can only check the progress of the background download from there.

 

I'm guessing this is what happened with my friend and he probably didn't notice the initial download much.

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Where is the PS4 thread?

 

Suspend/Resume is finally coming in the next update. Woot!

 

But I think the bigger news is being able to remap controls on the system level. That one could help those who don't want to use triangle to jump in Skyrim.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/sonys-testing-a-ps4-update-that-lets-you-pick-up-your-game-wher/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

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Backup (and Restore I assume) for the PS4. It didn't exist. The screenshot is apparently a leak from a beta tester.

 

And I feel like I have to say that, yes, it didn't exist before so we're not getting it back, they're giving us a new feature.

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But I think the bigger news is being able to remap controls on the system level. That one could help those who don't want to use triangle to jump in Skyrim.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/sonys-testing-a-ps4-update-that-lets-you-pick-up-your-game-wher/?utm_source=Feed_Classic_Full&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget&?ncid=rss_full

 

I can't think of any specific control changes I want to make, but this is a game-changer for me.

 

Have they confirmed if it is game-specific or if it'll be for ALL control inputs console-wide after the rebind has been made? Could be a bit awful if the latter.

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