“Waiting for downloads – That’s ridiculous, that’s crazy! We want to get out of this madness with PlayStation 4.
You should be able to turn it on and play straight away without having to sit around waiting for patches and downloads. He wants playing a game to be like watching a TV show. Yoshida claims that the focus on digital downloads and cloud computing is to make the gaming experience more instantaneous. “ The Witness will be a digital release and because of the flexibility of the digital distribution scheme, we can have more small games that might be free or available for a couple of dollars, or different services like free-to-play or subscription models.”
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“We’re shifting our platform more and more to the digital side – PS4 will be similar to PS Vita in that every game will be available as a digital download, and some will also be available as a disc,” Yoshida said, in response to a question about how the PS4 will better support smaller development studios. Those of you who still prefer to buy physical, worry not, for the PS4 will still focus on discs for the next few years.
For contrast, new release PC games downloaded via Steam average anywhere from 5-15 gigabytes. He said that users downloading PS4 games might want to take advantage of the PS4’s ability to download games and updates in standby mode, as they will clock in at a massive 50 gigabytes. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has been debunking rumours left and right in the wake of Sony’s big PlayStation 4 reveal event, and this time he has told The Guardian that all PS4 games will be available as digital downloads. Unfortunately for those of us with crappy internet, digital downloads of PS4 games will clock in at around 50 gigabytes.
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