PS4 disc installs timed at under a minute

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Mandatory disc installations come part and parcel with PS4, but it seems long a laborious install wait times will not.

Game installs of several gigabytes took tens of minutes on PS3, but the PS4 uses an install-while-you-play system which, according to early testing, reduces wait times to around 30 seconds.

Kotaku timed the installation processes of seven PS4 launch games, starting the clock upon disc insertion and stopping it when the PS4 allowed you to boot the game for play.

Surprisingly, the longest idle time recorded was 42 seconds for Ubisoft's Just Dance 2014. Assassin's Creed 4 fired up within just 13 seconds. As system architect Mark Cerny previously indicated, PS4 gets you in-game pretty quickly.

As the site notes, these times don't represent complete installation - it takes several minutes for a full install which, for example, totals at 37GBs for Knack; they represent the length of time the PS4 takes to do a partial install and let you into the game to start playing.

It also notes that some games have longer wait times for those who choose to go directly to multiplayer - presumably the early stages of the single-player campaign are given priority during installation.

Interestingly, the site observed that the PS4 begins installing game content automatically the moment a disc is inserted for the first time.

Here are the recorded install times:

Knack: 32 seconds
Killzone: Shadow Fall: 0:38
Battlefield 4: 0:42
Injustice: Gods Among Us: 0:28
Just Dance 2014: 0:24
Madden 25: 0:23
Assassin's Creed 4: 0:13
America is bracing itself for the PS4 launch this Friday, November 15. The console arrives on November 29 in Europe and Latin America.

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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/438116/ps4-disc-installs-timed-at-under-a-minute/

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RantPosted:

Wow these are some pretty fast install times.

TywinPosted:

KAQ
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-Joshua This is really good but wouldn't the item also count on your internet connection? Anyway I hope xbox has something like this


No, it's being written to the hard drive so your connection will have no influence.


Well how because you need internet to update the games :/ so the speed should affect it , but it's good if not


You don't need internet to basically scan the physical game and download it to your HDD.

TywinPosted:

Katsumi
Ohm people are definitely thinking download instead of install. still a good feture none the less


I personally prefer physical copies due to the slower speed of my internet. I may download a few titles though


I still think it is always a better idea to buy a physical copy rather than to buy the digital copy.
This way you don't have to use up such a big space on your only HDD.

TywinPosted:

THCv3 That's amazing. It really didn't bother me on Xbox for the install times but this is very nice.


I really wish xbone would do something like this.
Even though this isn't downloading the game from the interent, this is still impressive.

TywinPosted:

It took quite a bit longer than a minute.
Expectations were set a bit high.

KatsumiPosted:

Ohm people are definitely thinking download instead of install. still a good feture none the less


I personally prefer physical copies due to the slower speed of my internet. I may download a few titles though

BRSPosted:

Truth- That's without everyone downloading things at once, not talking in your house here.
This is with probably one server with One or Two ps4's connected here.
Proof when it happens..


I'd say it's going to take 2 minutes.

BRSPosted:

Sounds like they've done about as well as they could with mandatory installs, i'm impressed!

OhmPosted:

people are definitely thinking download instead of install. still a good feture none the less

7enPosted:

Truth- That's without everyone downloading things at once, not talking in your house here.
This is with probably one server with One or Two ps4's connected here.
Proof when it happens..


...You do realize the installation isn't downloading anything..? It's simply reading from the disk, which it can happily do at over 100MB/s.


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