The Official Playstation 4 Thread - News and Info

[ThePsydeFX]

But is it still necessary to have the game disc in the system after it installs? Or is it like the 360 where you need the disc to authenticate?

 

[detroitwalt]

I'll try again tomorrow I refuse to let this shyt slip by

 

[winb83]

Praying they get 2k14 and maybe Knack. Got until Saturday. fukk.

you gonna lose that coupon when they re-ring that up. you'll have to get another one and hope for the same manager or whoever. different people may reject it.

 

[Rekkapryde]

cached my ass those are installs and you have to have them to play the game. if you delete them the game will attempt to reinstall if you play it again. the PS4 doesn't play games off the Blu-Ray.

yeah I just read that shyt.

 

[Lord Scion]

the data is cached.

But how much space does the OS take up...

We not getting a straight 500 gigs.

408 GB breh...

 

[beenz]

cached my ass those are installs and you have to have them to play the game. if you delete them the game will attempt to reinstall if you play it again. the PS4 doesn't play games off the Blu-Ray.

so there BETTER not be any loading with this console then right?

 

[Two Stacks]

you gonna lose that coupon when they re-ring that up. you'll have to get another one and hope for the same manager or whoever. different people may reject it.

not what i was told. if so i'll move the COD and killzone for $30 each.

 

[backbreaker65]

that old 1.5 update was labled wrong it was actually 1.0, here is the real 1.5 update went live 5 min ago.

308mb
dus01.ps4.update.playstation.net/update/ps4/image/2013_1112/sys_df008b5601f4a214a3cc65030a02ac4a/PS4UPDATE.PUP

Will I be able to install system software update 1.50 via a USB drive?

Yes, you will be able to download the firmware to your PC and transfer it to PS4 using a USB memory stick. However, to use the USB method the first time you take PS4 out of the box and before installing system software update 1.50, you’ll need to enable safe mode. When PS4 is powered off, press and hold the Power Button for seven seconds to enter safe mode. Note: Users should only update using official files downloaded from PlayStation.com.

 

[hotbeezie]

Man I need to get one of them 1.5 TB hard drives

 

[winb83]

It actually does. Im sure it streams game data from both the BD and HD simultaneously



465.3 GiB or so is what 500 gigs actually is ..and then the OS reserves a large amount or so Ive heard

If you are playing a disc-based game, the system will begin caching the disc when you put it in the console and get ready to play. The game is saving part of itself to the system's hard drive. The amount of data that has to be saved before you can start will vary per title. P

Cerny said that for the launch game he directed, Knack, users should only have to wait 10s of seconds to play the game. After that, as you play, the game will stream more content to the console's 500GB hard drive. Knack will use 37GB of space overall, as noted on the game's box. Obviously, it won't take many games to fill the console's hard drive.P

Cached/installed game data will stay on the hard drive until the user deletes it. Cerny said that there had been some internal discussions at Sony about having the PS4 auto-delete installed data from games that players hadn't used in a while. They decided against it, figuring that gamers would never want to feel "blindsided" and would prefer to make their data management decisions manually. Probably a good choice!

The disc installation is required on PS4 because the console is not designed to read games off of discs. It's not a PlayStation issue. It's a physics issue. The machine may have a Blu-Ray drive that's about three times faster than the PS3 and sixteen times as much memory, but it's still more expedient for the PS4 to read data from its own hard drive. Cerny said his team had heard too many complaints from current-gen developers about having to wait to load in new levels of games. Putting the data on the readily-accessible hard drive alleviates that.

http://kotaku.com/how-mandatory-game-installations-will-work-on-ps4-1462283797
it puts the game data on the HDD and when there's enough it starts the game as it continues the install while you play.

 

[Two Stacks]

that old 1.5 update was labled wrong it was actually 1.0, here is the real 1.5 update went live 5 min ago.

dus01.ps4.update.playstation.net/update/ps4/image/2013_1112/sys_df008b5601f4a214a3cc65030a02ac4a/PS4UPDATE.PUP

thanks breh downloading now

 

[Ice Cold]

So I copped 2k14, killzone and ac4 off Amazon Saturday can't get here soon enough

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

It worked brehs! Will post pics later. Ironically enough, I could've even did it without the cards, as the girl at the game register rung up the coupon that she had on deck. She was like, "you just saved 95 dollars, AWESOME!" And I actually have two coupons still active to use!

 

[winb83]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340
Just bought that to put in the PS4

 

[Fatboi1]

Ok, quick question, how do you post pics from your phone? Want to post my pic of Madden, BF4 and the extra DS4

http://kotaku.com/how-mandatory-game-installations-will-work-on-ps4-1462283797
it puts the game data on the HDD and when there's enough it starts the game as it continues the install while you play.

10 seconds to play is great. You can delete a game and reinstall very quickly.