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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Truth-Posted:

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..

KronikShadowPosted:

Yes this makes me very happy!

GutPosted:

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DLT
-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


It's not updating it's just copying the data from the disk, it has nothing to do with updating

DLTPosted:

-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.

-JoshuaPosted:

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

AdamuPosted:

That is good on ps3 i could take like 2-10 mins or longer

GibbityTreePosted:

Assassin's Creed 4: 0:13

Might have to get a PS4 sooner then I thought.

CaszechPosted:

Not long to go for release! :)

Corn_DogPosted:

Cannot wait to go to the midnight release tomorrow!!!

yo2434Posted:

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Dreams nice fastest download time ive seen i hope xbox is like this takes me hours


Usually it can take up to 5-15 minutes.


very annoying, especially when iso modding and seeing if the disk actually works


Dreams~ this is installing from the disk to hdd not downloading from the internet, downloading is largely based on how quick your internet is.


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