PS4 day-one update can be background downloaded while you play
You'll need to download a 300MB patch to access most of PlayStation 4's features. However, you'll still be able to play games out of the box.
You'll need to download a 300MB patch to access most of PlayStation 4's features. However, you'll still be able to play games out of the box. With over a million consoles scheduled to go out on day one, there's always a chance that PlayStation Network servers may be hammered. Thankfully, you'll still be able to play games and have the update the download in the background.
Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida confirmed on Twitter that you'll be able to download the patch in the background.
Of course, you'll only be able to play games offline. Without the update, you won't be able to access PSN features. You also won't be able to play Blu-ray movies or DVDs, so while your PS4 is downloading the update, expect to play games. And, really, only play games.
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You'll need to download a 300MB patch to access most of PlayStation 4's features. However, you'll still be able to play games out of the box.-
That's a neat feature.
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Neither the 360 or PS3 downloads or installs OS updates while they're turned off. Is that what you're asking?
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Does the PS3 do that with PSN+ I thought that was part of PSN+?
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It will download updates overnight if you have PS+, yes. Won't install them though.
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You'll get messages about saves that were uploaded to the cloud and games that got patches installed, but I've never seen a system update auto-install.
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PS4 has a separate actual hardware chip that handles all of this. It will be able to do this.
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There's been a bit of marketing around MIMO tech. Kindle had it last round and now Apple has done the same to improve wireless performance. But, in my personal testing it still boils down on the source. I can get pretty good results from speedtest.net over whatever wireless but then have crap downloads from Amazon, Google, etc on the same tablet/phone. But, I haven't used a packet sniffer on the router to tell if those services are using multiple connections to download which I'm sure speedtest isn't.
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Wait... you can't play DVDs offline?! My PS3 can play DVDs and Blu-Rays offline.
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I know, but compared to base DVD and Blu-Ray players, which support "offline playback", it's a dumb restriction. (DVD players can play 100% of DVDs offline; for Blu-Ray players I think it's as long as whatever keystore is updated to some point; my PS3 played the Blu-Ray for The Hangover just fine without being connected to the Internet, but maybe that's because that Blu-Ray predates the firmware it was running.)
At a base level of functionality, the position of "This device can't play this media stored on a disc because it can't make an Internet connection" is dumb, especially in the face of games being able to be played. Do PS4 games still have a section of the disc dedicated to the storing the minimum firmware version for the game to run? Wouldn't that firmware also have a library of Blu-Ray key revocation lists?-
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