Remember how Sony touted the ability to play games while they’re downloading as one of the PlayStation 4’s biggest new features? Well, the impending The Last of Us will totally do that on the platform holder’s current console. Naughty Dog told Game Informer that while you’ll have to wait for approximately half of the digital version to download, you’ll still be able to boot it up and start playing while it pulls down the rest of the file.
Naturally, that also means that the game will be available from the PlayStation Store on the same day as its retail release. While we’re pretty impressed that the Uncharted developer has managed to squeeze this feature onto the PlayStation 3, it does beg the question: why has it taken so long?
[source gameinformer.com, via vg247.com]
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Maybe it's size will be 50GB.
@Gemuarto I think I'm probably allowed to say that the demo I played was almost 7GB, so it wouldn't surprise me!
Wait, what about the poopy installs? Are they getting rid of it on PS3? Or the said """trick""" is to have two separate files for TLoU? I wanna specifics.
NIce feature. So if the PS3 can already do this.... why upgrade to PS4?
@get2sammyb I am off to GAME tonight to play the demo
@FredyGarbagis probably trick with two separate files because of ennormous size of the game. Not sure about that, though. I think PS4 will be able to stream data from server right into RAM and HDD, without installing. Don't belive PS3 can do that.
@Gemuarto That's more likely, yeah. It's a good idea. Shame it's wasn't used before, even with games smaller than 10gb.
I'm a big fan of digital but I'm getting the disk version of this one.
if they are doing this now then the file size for this game must be HUGE
still i'm not a fan of digital downloads i would rather have a disc but the fact that they can do it like this now is good news for those who do like to download their games and also to show how the feature will work on the PS4
@Sammy
Wheres the love? Send that demo my way...LOL
A taste of the future.
@XCWarrior On the PS4, you can start playing almost immediately. Whereas you'll have to wait for The Last of Us to reach 50% before you can start it up.
didn't ni no kuni do this with that insane 25GB install? I remember downloading two separate files.
But will the game continue to DL while you're playing? It's been awhile but I was under the impression DL would stop while I was playing a game. I certainly wouldn't want to be trying to play a game this graphically intensive while my HDD was DL the rest of the game. Sounds like a bad idea.
@rjejr I think that's the implication here — it will continue downloading the game while you're playing it.
oh snap
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