For example, I was running on the original PS4 hard drive, limited to gb and max rpm speeds on the drive itself — basically not very good at all regardless of any specific PlayStation software optimisation for the drive. So, what should you look for in an SSD? For me, that was a simple choice of going up to a 1tb sized SSD which more recently has become an affordable option.
Similarly, if your rocking a 1tb stock Hard Drive in your PS4, it might be worth thinking about bumping up to a 2tb drive. What does this all boil down to? The only time we would recommend the top tier option is really for PC enthusiasts that also transfer and write a LOT of data, there the benefits may be far more significant.
The final important thing you should be looking at is the comparative price. Essentially sacrificing some of the upper end performance for increased capacity at a reasonable price which all centres around something called V-NAND technology. Make sure you shop around, look for those sales and pick a brand you trust.
One final note of warning before we leave you though, make sure you are careful when selecting your replacement drive! I've been looking forward to a download option to be available for every game ever since the HDLoader days on the PS2. I haven't sold a game in twenty years though I have purchased out of print used games since then but ubiquitous downloads have the potential to put an end to the days of games going out of print. The last things that I sold were my Genesis games to fund a PS1 purchase and I regretted it almost immediately.
So the lack of reselling isn't a negative for me. Aren't consoles already heading down the path of hard drive installations, even when physical discs are involved? Most PS3 disc games I have purchased force some kind of hard drive installation. I don't own a PS4, but I'm curious if physical disc games are following the same trend on that system.
Personally, I like the ability to install the whole game data from disc on the hard drive to decrease loading times, similarly to what the allows. The only downside is that current games are huge, and I only have so much hard drive space.
You actually don't have a choice anymore, at least on PS4. Same for the XBox One. This is pretty much my entire feeling too. I don't think I've ever sold a game, and probably only lent games once or twice.
I hate having to switch disks, especially since my consoles are usually behind a cabinet door. Quote: It's also partly a habit - I'm old-school enough to buy all my music on CD when that option's available, even though I immediately rip them to storage, so that I have a permanent backup in lossless format.
Same here. I recently got the Joe Satriani collection box on audio CD. Do I listen to the actual discs? No, it's ripped to lossless and mp3 for portablility. But I love owning his collection physically, as a sort of archive medium that I can rip whenever. Quote: I've been looking forward to a download option to be available for every game ever since the HDLoader days on the PS2.
For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf.
I guess to me the pleasure of owning certain games physically supersedes the annoyance of swapping discs. Since the new consoles auto-install the entire game to HDD, the value of physical has only increased since I know my disc games will play just as well as their digital counterparts.
Now, if they could find a viable way of playing disc-nstalled games off HDD without swappings discs ala HDLoader, I would only download small indie titles, everything else would be physical.
SilverBlade wrote: For me, the really great thing about HDloader on PS2 was playing the games off HDD, without swappings discs, while still owning the games physically sitting nicely on my book shelf.
While I can understand the sentiment; video games cases don't appeal to me in that way. It's just one more set of things to box up, move and unbox whenever I decide to change where I live.
One more set of things to maintain while I'm living there. One more set of things to have to have space for. When I moved last I actually sold all of my paperbacks and the ones I couldn't sell I donated to the library and replaced many of them with digital versions. I still have my hardcovers because those are something that I do like to have on display. Even then I only buy hardcovers from authors that I really like, want to read the paper book version of and will read multiple times.
If I were to extend that mentality to video games I'd probably buy physical editions from Bethesda. Only if they had a really, really nice and unique case to display them in and not Yet Another Jewel Case. Put the disc in and it launches the installer, enter the serial number to tie the game to your account and install from disc. Remove disc and do whatever you want with it.
Only costs you the lack of resale and making a connection to the Steam servers once every 30 days. Microsoft tried to do that as well. Only they tried to find a way to keep resale terribly communicated and with no details about how it would work which caused them to require a daily connection to Live. Of course we all know how that went down. Given the crappy state of the internet here in Australia it's discs for me.
I am not caught up to the current generation of consoles but as far as what I would do it would depend on the game. Anything large group play related Rockband, random sports game A, Mario Kart, and other stuff of this nature I would definitely continue buying the physical version just so that if I was going to a friend's house and it would possibly get played there I could bring it just like I do with board games.
Things that are mostly single player per console it would come down to price, pack-ins, and whether my ISP has my nuts in a vice over transfer caps at that point. I can count on one hand the amount of games I have ever resold and those were really just trades for other things to friends anyways so that really doesn't factor in even though I have stated the ability to do so as a reason I would never buy digital in the past.
KaiHein wrote: Anything large group play related Rockband, random sports game A, Mario Kart, and other stuff of this nature I would definitely continue buying the physical version just so that if I was going to a friend's house and it would possibly get played there I could bring it just like I do with board games.
You can simply unplug the drive from your system, take it to your friend's house, plug it in to a system there and play whatever games that are on the drive once you've signed into Live. I bought Watch Dogs on digital, since the Gamnestop in my area wasn't really open for midnight release.
Good to know. This is something I will have to add into my decision of which one to get first, although it won't be something huge unless friends lean the same way not really a benefit if none of them have one too. There is still the whole ISP thing but that is something that will hopefully either get fixed or that I can manage around.
Generally, I get multiplayer games on disc, while single player and indie games digital. Sole exception was Metal Gear 5 demo, since Best buy was running a promotion. Discs are just way cheaper, plus I can ebay them when I'm done. However, I have bought digital indie games in sales. 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.
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