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Configurable Segmented Installation for games on PS5 could be a neat feature.
JimboJones
Member
It would be nice, Halo master chief collection offers something like this on PC (not sure about Xbox)
MrFunSocks
Banned
No reason why devs couldn't do stuff like this on the current gen. Some already did it. I expect barely any to do it next gen either. It just has no benefit to developers really.
GrayFoxPL
Member
Benefits customers though and seeing how taking less space on ssd will be essential this gen I can see this feature as pretty important.
MoreJRPG
Suffers from extreme PDS
Microsoft definitely wants people to buy their proprietary drive so I highly doubt we'll see them utilizing this technique en masse.
01011001
Banned
exactly, the Xbox One theocratically had this feature for a few years now, but almost no game actually makes use of it.
stuff like this is always forgotten really fast by developers.
did you know that the PS4 supports the same feature that the 360 did where it automatically turns off a game's background music as soon as the system detects that you turn on your own Music (through Spotify or the MP3 player)? bet most people didn't. because what was a feature almost every 360 game supported (the only ones I know of that didn't are some CoD games for some weird reason), on PS4 I have encountered precisely 3! games that do it so far... 3...
these games are Rocket League, EDF4.1 and EDF5
every other game I personally played didn't support it and the BGM would just play as usual meaning you have to turn it off in the game's options menu manually.
game devs will often just completely ignore features of a system if they think it's no big deal and customers won't even notice it's missing
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Andodalf
Banned
LOL what? MS pioneered this stuff last gen, of course they'll do it again. Not everything in life is "MS BAD SONY GOOD"
MoreJRPG
Suffers from extreme PDS
If all you got out of that post is console wars then I don't know what to tell you other than to try harder. There's a reason the all digital console is only 500gb. I'm sure you'll figure it out one day. Companies want your money, and they'll do anything to get it.
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01011001
Banned
the reason it is only 500Gb is because they wanted it to be cheap. these SSDs are still expensive as fuck you know.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Great idea, brilliant, smashing, awsome
Now watch Call of Duty still be 200 gigs with 48 gig+ patches. Hell it's a new system, make it 300... up!
Now watch Call of Duty still be 200 gigs with 48 gig+ patches. Hell it's a new system, make it 300... up!
MrFunSocks
Banned
No one is going to not buy a game because it doesn't let you piecemeal install things though, so it's not important to devs.
They actually didn't. Last gen they were catching up on this stuff late in the game (actually after xb1 release).
theclaw135
Banned
It needs to be standard system functionality. Does anyone want lossless FMVs dubbed into five languages gobbling up disk space?
MrFunSocks
Banned
It can be standard system functionality all it wants, doesn't mean devs will use it. Again - current consoles already support this at a system level, yet no-one uses it.
GrayFoxPL
Member
Devs didn't care about space optimization at all probably in part because hdd's were relatively cheap, so it was not that expensive to expand the space to terabytes of data.
Now who gonna afford ssd's with the specs ones that match those in ps5? Rich boys?
I don't believe sony won't have any guidelines for devs to eg. eliminate patches size of the game itself.
Now who gonna afford ssd's with the specs ones that match those in ps5? Rich boys?
I don't believe sony won't have any guidelines for devs to eg. eliminate patches size of the game itself.
awesome. Sony always delivering more than Microsoft.
Why do you have to bring xbox into this thread? Why cant you just enjoy things?
FranXico
Member
It has obvious benefits to the end user, and improvements to the toolchain can easily encourage developers to use it.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Smaller games thanks to more modularised installation higher chance your game gets installed and kept on active rotation which is not ist good to acquire customers but to retain them (similar reason why iOS added a feature that allow you to offload apps without removing them from the Home Screen, saving space without losing on real estate).
Wjybis this a problem now? Both consoles have limited expensive storage and games are big nowadays... developers adapt to a changed environment.
You know both of these points, but you entered this thread to put the feature down. Had it been an Xbox Only feature it would have been called yet another of this magical “multipliers” some people seem to have their mouths full of.
This is a great feature that I really hope gets used. It was one of the things I was really excited for with the PS4 and it never really happened.
I'd love for it to break down as far as possible. Don't want high res textures? Fine. Multiplayer? Your choice! Forced dlc which you just download a key for? No need to waste your data. That update that fills the main menu with adverts for the sequel? If it's an offline game, download what you want.
The reality is this will mostly be multiplayer/single player split, when it's used at all. That'll be helpful, but I'd love to see more.
I'd love for it to break down as far as possible. Don't want high res textures? Fine. Multiplayer? Your choice! Forced dlc which you just download a key for? No need to waste your data. That update that fills the main menu with adverts for the sequel? If it's an offline game, download what you want.
The reality is this will mostly be multiplayer/single player split, when it's used at all. That'll be helpful, but I'd love to see more.
YeulEmeralda
Member
Also lazy devs aren't going to bother with a PS5 only feature. Unless Sony makes it mandatory. Its just more work for them.
TimFL
Member
The PS4 launched with said feature, the XB1 had it added after launch and not a single game I played on my XB1X supports it in any meaningful way (literally launcher screens that show an install progress bar after being marked as ready to play).
Andodalf
Banned
? This is about being able to only have certain parts of a game installed to play, right? Not playing as you download. Halo MCC is probably the best example of this tech, you only need to install the titles you want, and can separate the SP and MP for each.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
TimFL
Member
This is about both, play as you download (e.g. intro level, is very common on PS4) and prioritize which portion to download first (e.g. MP in Killzone Shadow Fall).