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shinobi602 · Jul 10, 2013

“You can visit your friends house you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good. But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world.”

“A similar system also works on Blu-ray, chunks are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player. They don’t have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive.”

Source: OPM

dark_prinny · Jul 10, 2013

Greatness Awaits.

Bluekaveli · Jul 10, 2013

Game changer

Joeki11a · Jul 10, 2013

Family Program? Lol

hwalker84 · Jul 10, 2013

So the same as the Xbone

Reave · Jul 10, 2013

Aww yiss.

user1337 · Jul 10, 2013

I'm just waiting for release date mate. Should be great

Kyoufu · Jul 10, 2013

So it's not limited to 2 consoles like Vita/PS3?

zomgbbqftw · Jul 10, 2013

Oh shit guys, the true family programme. :O

Nappy-Jones · Jul 10, 2013

dark_prinny said:
Greatness Awaits.

it most certainly does my good sir

Joeki11a · Jul 10, 2013

hwalker84 said:
So the same as the Xbone

They ditched that idea

Fandangox · Jul 10, 2013

This is pretty damn good. Finally giving Digital games some of the benefits of Physical.

Canis lupus · Jul 10, 2013

hwalker84 said:
So the same as the Xbone

So the same as the PS3.

dallow_bg · Jul 10, 2013

hwalker84 said:
So the same as the Xbone

Yup and PS360, but I guess you can start to play earlier.

DieH@rd · Jul 10, 2013

Its nice that both PSN and Bluray versions of the game are using same type of installation system.

keit4 · Jul 10, 2013

Errr, the 360 already allow this.

RibbedHero · Jul 10, 2013

So the same as Steam.

SwiftDeath · Jul 10, 2013

Good to hear

Naughty God · Jul 10, 2013

Microsoft are going to put this feature back in.

Dreamgazer · Jul 10, 2013

hwalker84 said:
So the same as the Xbone

The same as PS3 besides the initial download

jond76 · Jul 10, 2013

zomgbbqftw said:
Oh shit guys, the true family programme. :O

You can't be serious. This is literally the same thing X1 does.

Famassu · Jul 10, 2013

Oh wow, this is quite awesome. I wonder what kind of limitations this has? I'd assume at least the kind that only one PS4 has access to the digital library at a time. Any timelimits?

LevityNYC · Jul 10, 2013

injurai · Jul 10, 2013

This is the steambox!!!

Bone am cry

balohna · Jul 10, 2013

Hahahahaha, so MS dropped this shit when they 180'd their DRM and now Sony is doing it for digital games PLUS they have DRM-free physical games.

Xbox 90 incoming.

Zen_Arcade · Jul 10, 2013

Ill probably never use it personally, but the whole "family plan" line of thinking is a good idea and I'm glad they're using it.

DietRob · Jul 10, 2013

Hotness.

TBH I'm most excited for being able to play every PS4 game on Vita also!

Flamfas · Jul 10, 2013

Kyoufu said:
So it's not limited to 2 consoles like Vita/PS3?

This is the biggest deal

jwk94 · Jul 10, 2013

hwalker84 said:
So the same as the Xbone

Does it still do that?

Black Republican · Jul 10, 2013

Good stuff!

John Caboose · Jul 10, 2013

Has almost everyone ITT lost their minds? Except for the optimization of downloads/installs PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One all do this.....

Zombie James · Jul 10, 2013

They're doing this without phoning home, yes? If so, that's a huge blow to Microsoft.

Skilletor · Jul 10, 2013

jond76 said:
You can't be serious. This is literally the same thing X1 does.

I can do this on ps3.

VariantX · Jul 10, 2013

Did sony already do something like this or am I remembering wrong?

demosthenes · Jul 10, 2013

I assume it will be like Steam and not work once you log off your PSN account.

dallow_bg · Jul 10, 2013

Do people not understand that this is business as usual for all account based systems (except wii u) or am I missing something?

Famassu · Jul 10, 2013

keit4 said:
Errr, the 360 already allow this.

Errr. no it doesn't? Doesn't it have a only once in a year time limit when doing that?

Defect · Jul 10, 2013

This is nothing like the Xbone's family plan.

It is the same as 360 and Ps3. You log into your account, download the game you already bought, play.

The only difference is now you can play while it is downloading.

Famassu said:
Errr. no it doesn't? Doesn't it have a only once in a year time limit when doing that?

That is if you want to license transfer. You can always go to a friend's house and log into your account and download and play.

sn00zer · Jul 10, 2013

cant you do this now? im playing all my digital games on another ps3 while im away from home

Killthee · Jul 10, 2013

Does this mean they're switching to the 360 DRM scheme? I'd rather have a set number of authorized consoles than 1 home console and a requirement to log into my account on any other console I want to play my games on.

farisr · Jul 10, 2013

Basically the same system as PS3, but they're just highlighting the new partial install system/play off the disc capabilities of the ps4 now.

Xbox One (from the info that's been released so far) has to install the entire game before playing it and cannot play a game right from the disc either. Good to see Sony finally promoting this (AFAIK) differentiating feature.

Edit:

farisr said:
Okay, cool to see. Must have missed that install while you play thing before (obviously) due to the many negative aspects of the documentation before.

So yeah, disregard everything I said above.

jond76 · Jul 10, 2013

John Caboose said:
Has almost everyone ITT lost their minds? Except for the optimization of downloads/installs PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One all do this.....

People can't wait to scream that PS4 is better, it seems. You have to sign into your account. Reading comprehension here is dreadful.

Guymelef · Jul 10, 2013

The news here respect to PS360 is not have to wait a 20GB download.

PedroRVD · Jul 10, 2013

It is not like Xbone.

You have to log in with your account to download a digital game. Just the way we can do with our 360 and PS3 already.

Xbone was going to let us share a game with different users.

DidntKnowJack · Jul 10, 2013

John Caboose said:
Has almost everyone ITT lost their minds? Except for the optimization of downloads/installs PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbox One all do this.....

The quick downloading is the highlight for me. shrug.

edit: worded badly, but you know what I mean.

kadotsu · Jul 10, 2013

I hope this doesn't fuck with my multi-region purchases.

Wishmaster92 · Jul 10, 2013

Boom?

keit4 · Jul 10, 2013

Famassu said:
Errr. no it doesn't? Doesn't it have a only once in a year time limit when doing that?

No. You can play your digital copies from your profile in any console.

oti · Jul 10, 2013

Nice, but where are all the Family Program comparisons coming from? It's just the way it always was with PS3 and Xbox 360, just more comfortable. Am I missing something out?

Miles Quaritch · Jul 10, 2013

zomgbbqftw said:
Oh shit guys, the true family programme. :O

What? Are you being sarcastic or am I missing something? This is exactly how it works now, the only difference is the play as you download feature.

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