>big update when you first buy a game
Why is this allowed?
>>332849304
Because console developers have forgotten what made them a success.
I miss the day consoles were plug-and-play.
They just assume everyone will put up with it.
>photographing your screen instead of PrntScr
why
Consoles are steadily losing the reasons why people use them over gaming-capable PCs.
>>332849304
They do this because it gives them time to work on a patch as the game is being pressed.
When we eventually go 100% digital, you won't have to worry about day 1 patches at launch.
Developers can simply just put it in the base game at the last moment.
To the question at hand: You can just skip the update if you're playing a single player game.
Unless there's some huge game breaking bug, you can enjoy the game without any hitches.
Patches on consoles have been a thing since the OG Xbox.
>>332851786
Installing games is faster on a PS4 than a modern gaming PC.
It takes 15 seconds to dump the entire disc on the HDD and you're ready to go.Unless you absolutely need a patch, but hey; you have to do that on PC too.
>>332849304
the wait must be extremely painful huh op?
>>332854509
you load more on consoles than on PCs, so you actually come out ahead on PC versions of games
>>332849304
Because several months can pass between the time where a game receives platform certification from Sony/Microsoft and goes gold and when it actually arrives on shelves
It makes sense to use that time to keep improving the game.
>>332854509
It's actually still installing while you're playing, the installation process only makes you wait until enough of the game has been installed for it to be playable.
>>332854509
>it takes 15 seconds
No it doesn't you retard. At best it's ready to start. Most games don't let you play before it completely installed (when the blu ray drive gets quiet again) And even the games which allow you to play have streaming/performance issues when you are playing while the rest is installing.
Steam is just as fast.
>>332856794
only when we're talking about downloading.
I've never seen what you're talking about with a physical disc.
>>332854509
>It takes 15 seconds to dump the entire disc on the HDD
Hahahaha, yeah okay. You're dumping a 40-50GB game int 15 seconds over a 2x bluray drive and SATA 2 hard drive.
>>332849304
>Taking a photo of your monitor
>>332857419
The PS4 actually has an 6x drive, but you're still right, the transfer rate is only about 27MBps, however, all the data on the disc is compressed and they have very fast hardware decompression so the effective transfer rate is actually quite a bit higher.
