Ps4 disc vs download

Everything else on disc so I can resell once I'm done with it. I haven't bought a disc since launch. I don't have a PS4 yet, but I do have a Vita and remote playing my library without having to have a specific disc sounds awesome.

I've bought half of mine on disk, half online. But generally, as above, if it's a game I don't plan on owning forever I'll get a disk. Sales change that, however. I'm lazy, so downloads. Anything that keeps me off of horrible Montgomery roads is a plus. It helps that they have a somewhat reasonably sized HDD on this one. Then again, GB seemed reasonable at the start of the life of its predecessor.

The way game sizes are ballooning, I'm sure I'll need an upgrade on this one, too. Out of curiosity, why restrict it to the PS4?

The XBox One also has this decision for its owners and it would be interesting at least to me to see if there's a platform trend in disc or download preferences. I've been looking forward to a download option to be available for every game ever since the HDLoader days on the PS2.

I haven't sold a game in twenty years though I have purchased out of print used games since then but ubiquitous downloads have the potential to put an end to the days of games going out of print. The last things that I sold were my Genesis games to fund a PS1 purchase and I regretted it almost immediately.

So the lack of reselling isn't a negative for me. Aren't consoles already heading down the path of hard drive installations, even when physical discs are involved? Most PS3 disc games I have purchased force some kind of hard drive installation. I don't own a PS4, but I'm curious if physical disc games are following the same trend on that system.

Personally, I like the ability to install the whole game data from disc on the hard drive to decrease loading times, similarly to what the allows. The only downside is that current games are huge, and I only have so much hard drive space. You actually don't have a choice anymore, at least on PS4. Same for the XBox One. This is pretty much my entire feeling too. I don't think I've ever sold a game, and probably only lent games once or twice. I hate having to switch disks, especially since my consoles are usually behind a cabinet door.

Quote: It's also partly a habit - I'm old-school enough to buy all my music on CD when that option's available, even though I immediately rip them to storage, so that I have a permanent backup in lossless format. Same here. I recently got the Joe Satriani collection box on audio CD.

Do I listen to the actual discs? No, it's ripped to lossless and mp3 for portablility. But I love owning his collection physically, as a sort of archive medium that I can rip whenever.

Quote: I've been looking forward to a download option to be available for every game ever since the HDLoader days on the PS2. For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf. I guess to me the pleasure of owning certain games physically supersedes the annoyance of swapping discs.

Since the new consoles auto-install the entire game to HDD, the value of physical has only increased since I know my disc games will play just as well as their digital counterparts.

Now, if they could find a viable way of playing disc-nstalled games off HDD without swappings discs ala HDLoader, I would only download small indie titles, everything else would be physical. SilverBlade wrote: For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf. While I can understand the sentiment; video games cases don't appeal to me in that way.

It's just one more set of things to box up, move and unbox whenever I decide to change where I live. One more set of things to maintain while I'm living there. One more set of things to have to have space for. When I moved last I actually sold all of my paperbacks and the ones I couldn't sell I donated to the library and replaced many of them with digital versions. I still have my hardcovers because those are something that I do like to have on display.

Even then I only buy hardcovers from authors that I really like, want to read the paper book version of and will read multiple times. If I were to extend that mentality to video games I'd probably buy physical editions from Bethesda. Only if they had a really, really nice and unique case to display them in and not Yet Another Jewel Case. Put the disc in and it launches the installer, enter the serial number to tie the game to your account and install from disc. Remove disc and do whatever you want with it.

Only costs you the lack of resale and making a connection to the Steam servers once every 30 days. Microsoft tried to do that as well. Only they tried to find a way to keep resale terribly communicated and with no details about how it would work which caused them to require a daily connection to Live. Of course we all know how that went down. Given the crappy state of the internet here in Australia it's discs for me. I am not caught up to the current generation of consoles but as far as what I would do it would depend on the game.

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If you dont have your external HDD connected, the games youve played from it will still appear in your Home Screen list and Library however, theyll display a! Knowing what each feature does and doesnt do will help you narrow down your choices.

Scroll down to Storage. Image credit: Sony with the newer version of that standard PS4 commonly known as the PS4 Slim Sony has made the whole ejecting process a lot more simple by positioning a physical, properly pressable, eject button next to the power button. Once formatting is complete, youll see a message confirming that its been successful and a small green light will appear next to the devices name, letting you know its activated as the main storage location. The PlayStation 4 Pro edition can unlock additional features for some games, most notably the ability to play in 4K resolution.

Some disc-based games will require fortnite content updates from the internet for an optimal experience. Is there any difference between downloading a game or buying the same game on disc? Many disc-based PS4 games may be installed locally to your PlayStation 4 console to speed up the games performance. All well and good, but when we wanted to eject the thing afterwards we were completely lost.

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