Ps4 downloads taking so long

Like if you timed from putting the disc in to launching the game, or actually getting to gameplay, or some other metric. PS4 vs. Both very powerful. Both very ambitious. Both about to meet head to… Read more Read Remember that this is only a test of how long the games initially take to install.

Advertisement So here's the general idea: You put in a game to install it, a progress bar comes up, and at some point you can launch the game and start playing while it keeps installing. Advertisement Now, there's another big difference here. Advertisement I was using an Xbox One connected via Wi-Fi, getting about Mbps download speed, so we ran a test with another Xbox on a faster internet connection installing Assassin's Creed IV to see how much of a difference that could make in downloading the update.

Even though having the PS4 plugged into the Xbox shouldn't affect anything, we only did that for the video] Advertisement Assassin's Creed IV: Xbox One offline, no update : 5 minutes 50 seconds Xbox One with update, fastest connection : 7 minutes 2 seconds Xbox One with update, 10Mbps connection : 10 minutes 32 seconds PS4: 42 seconds The rest of these were tested on our office Wi-Fi which is around Mbps. Download was fine took about 30 mins.

How is this taking so long? What it it actually doing, it extracting files or compiling the whole god damn thing in to machine code or something. Still, 50 hours is a long time to wait for a single game and it could put people off digital downloads until internet speeds catch up.

Will you go the digital download route? Or do you prefer the feel of cracking open a freshly unwrapped game case and handling a physical disc? Let us know below. Because it is tired of yet another game in this series. The PlayStation 5 will soon replace the all three models' now-outdated hardware, possibly even with backward compatibility for Ps4 and earlier PlayStation system games. In the meantime, PS4 owners are stuck with slow load times and slower updates.

Many PS4 owners, while sitting through potentially hour-long copying sessions, likely wonder why the PS4 needs to copy updates in the first place. Often, a rather small patch for a game will download in almost no time at all, but then the PS4 enters the "Copying update file The PS4's copying update data process seems to have been added sometime in possibly in system update 4.

The PS4 has a slower internal hard drive compared to the PS5. The copying speeds for the PS4 vary from one file to another. Some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Last of Us 2 are heavy games and take up almost GB worth of data on the PS4 hard drive, these type of games take longer to get copied. Sony has sent out a major update for the PS app. The new update is designed to enhance the experience for both PS4 and PS5 users.