With PS4, digital downloads are incredibly common. Users are able to download games, of course, but if you also think about streaming via PlayStation Now, patches, firmware updates, and other bits and pieces, the amount of total data must be pretty staggering.
Well, according to a new report from Sandvine, 2.7 per cent of global internet traffic comes from PS4 downloads. That may not sound like a lot, but making a dent in a worldwide statistic like this means that people are using Sony's console to download a massive amount of data. To put it another way, it's the tenth largest individual source of internet traffic worldwide.
As you can see from this infographic, PS4 doesn't quite catch up with video on demand services like Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Netflix, with the latter responsible for a whopping 15 per cent of global traffic. It would be fascinating to see the numbers behind all this. Still, the takeaway from this is that people are using PS4 to download a heck of a lot of stuff.
How much do you download on PS4? Have you gone digital yet, or do you still mainly buy games on disc? Don't break your data limit in the comments below.
[source sandvine.com, via statista.com, reddit.com]
Comments 27
This is a brilliant stat.
Shows that BBC and Chennel 4 both publicly owned should just go private and dump their gigantic library of ip on a netflix style app. The online media services from UK TV is pathetic. The PS4 stats are kind of insane.
I'm all digital on PS4. I didn't use a disk tray for a year at least.
Crazy number this is huge!
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Well atleast you have something decent on TV there in the Netherlands its terrible garbage.
If i dont have to download a game i would go 100% disk i rather have some stores here good for employment. Digital only makes is for one company, retail is good for everyone. They only should think about something to let the developers from the secondhand market. 😁
This is very interesting. I think it’s a pretty impressive number for PlayStation downloads to even make that much of a dent into the global traffic (and good gracious Netflix is practically going to own the internet before long!)
My game library is about 30-40% digital at this point, but with patches, game updates, PS store browsing, demos, watching game videos, and firmware updates — there is a lot of data coming through my PS4 everyday.
90% is probably porn no 2.7 out of the remaining 10 is great really.
I'm purely digital for games now, only 3 on disc, Last Guardian, FFXV which i bought with my pro in 2016 and Deadpool which was a birthday gift from my sister!
Wonder what it'll be after the near 100gb Red Dead Redemption 2 😉
Either way that's a great stat and one that's only likely to increase
The main issue is that the internet isn't build for this; that's why we got the whole "yes or no net neutrality" argument a while back. The 15% for Netflix is pretty shocking. At least 50% seems to be used for video streaming; that number was only a fraction 5 or 10 years ago.
The gray area is porn.
Just wow
If Netflix etc is used on PS4 would it go to Netflix or PS4?
If it went to Netflix etc then this is even more impressive
I'm downloading RDR 2 as we speak so that number is going up...
Wow that's a lot of traffic.
@Neolit Mainly it proof that i dont have the best english. But .. Yeah I'm Full digital
I'd like to see some absolute numbers like TB of data send
Yeah I'm going to pre-order RDR2 when I get home from work today so it'll be interesting to see the network stats at the end of this month after RDR2 has been released, especially with the 100Gb+ download size.
Im sure im 30% of that 2.2 lol
Haven't gone digital, and won't until it's unavoidable. Should we ever be pushed to streaming, I may have to consider giving up gaming.
The last physical disc I bought for ps4 was....Knack
So yeah I download everything
I only have 2 physical games for the PS4, both PSVR games. Robinson because I was able to get it day 1 for around $20 (which still wasn’t worth it) and Farpoint for the AIM controller. I’m not sure of my total number of games, with genres ranging the spectrum, but I have used roughly 7TB of HDD space.
I had to turn off auto updates as it was taking me over my cap limits.
@Neolit Porn is the king of the internet!
I never watched it, of course!
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi I know what you mean. My household mostly watches Netflix, but recently we’ve tried watching UK programmes via the 3 main online services/apps, and my goodness I didn’t realise how far behind they are compared to Netflix. Using iPlayer, All4 and ITV Hub was like going back a decade, with the worst of user interfaces. ITV Hub is by far the worst. It’s not available on any games console I own, I had to use the Amazon Fire TV stick. And when we finally did get it working, it kept hanging and crashing so many times it took us 2 hours to watch an hour show. Luckily a lot their shows end up on Netflix anyway, so I’ll probably stick to that.
@Neolit Yeah, the narrative is lame too, I also don't understand the behaviour of the characters. I mean, a guy goes to a woman's house to fix her tv, next thing they are doing sex, like why?
Where is the dialogue? Character's motive? I don't understand 95% of the positions during the act as well, it looks painful.
That's just all the update data for ESO...
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