I have the cheapest-ass fibre optics internet connection money can buy, and do a 30 GB client in like an hour or less. For all the reasons you listed, I would also love to go all digital. However, I worry about running out of HDD space at some point, even with cloud saves. Discs still install the entire game to the HD, so either way you'll have to delete installs to free up space. I rarely have more than one or two games installed at a time on my Steam Account.
With how all installed games are displayed on PS4, it just shows how much more convenient an all-digital library truely is. I wanted to go all digital, but those download sizes are just too big for my internet connection, plus that hard drive size is so small. I've got 4 disc games for my Ps4 as of right now and a few small downloadable games. It'll stay down that route for me in the foreseeable future.
I'll buy disc games for single player focused titles that I pretty much play in one stretch - and then swap the disc out for the next title.
But as long as digital costs more than disc based -albeit being more restricted resell, lend, This has to change! I would have already bought BF4 and probably even CoD if they had a 10 euro discount on digital. Those 10 euros don't exactly hurt much, but I would feel ripped off.
Thats why I'm holding back. If it's a game that I know I'll want to keep long-term, digital. If I think I might want to resell it later on or don't know whether I'll like it, disc.
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Editor's picks 2 weeks ago. Digital makes a lot more sense for cheap small games that I won't play that often. You'll be paying a lot of money for minimal and sometimes no benefit compared to a magnetic drive. I upgraded to a hybrid SSHD because the price difference was negligible compared to a straight HD and it sometimes offers slightly better speeds.
That's true in the U. Since I rarely buy stuff on release day any longer, the physical disc is almost always cheaper. That bad?
That's depressing. Ulf wrote: That's true in the U. If they keep it up I won't have to be tempted by retail discounts, because I really don't want to suffer disc clutter like last generation. Of the two MS, Sony , Sony definitely has the bigger and better sales more often. It's like MS is locked into a small of games each week it can handle, while in Sony's store, in Europe specifically, there could be dozens of items featured in sales.
I haven't seen it cheaper than 40 on MS's store ever. Could be the difference between a company that has long had content and knows from experience how the long tail works vs a company that's relatively new to the content game.
Or it may be simply that Sony has so many more first and second party games that they can draw on to discount. Whereas Microsoft has to convince the 3rd party publishers to let them discount games or give them away. Had a blast with that one. Even got the Platinum trophy. The cheaper a title gets, the less "extra value" the physical copy has for me, because of fixed costs shipping, packaging in reselling the disc. I feel like going hybrid is part of the reason it didn't make a difference.
But I can't say for sure. Hybrid drives confuse me. I don't know how it would be partitioned for PS4. If you can load just the OS to the SSD, you will notice faster boot times, but largely unchanged loading times. I can't read the article work network , but last time I checked, the SSDs were just a couple of millimeters too big to fit the PS4.
Has to be less than 12mm [citation needed]. But unless you can decide what specifically goes into the SSD on a Hybrid Drive, then you won't see much of a difference.
I already owned LMSH on the and 8 bucks was certainly cheap enough to fire it up at any convenience. I've bought a few games on the cheap for that very reason. And primarily on the PS3 because MS's stupid insistence on ripping off customers on hard drives and on the Vita, that's Sony too. Something else is going on.
It is definitely not worth the SSD premium at this time. As for disc vs download. I still prefer to have the physical box and disc. But games I plan on playing once and never touching again, like Shadow of War , are best bought on disc and sold on Craigslist to recoup some of the cost. Look, I get it: Getting off the couch and swapping discs is annoying.
I'm not being facetious, I actually hate it. But disc drives do have other advantages: When you buy a disc, you can install the game much faster than if you were to download it, especially if you have a slow internet connection. Sure, you'll have to download the occasional patch, but they're usually a fraction of the size of the actual game.
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