Why do games have to be downloaded on ps4

Check you have enough storage space for your game. To find the required free space for the game, go to PlayStation Store on your console, select the game and scroll down to the Details section. The minimum free space appears on the right of the screen. To see the available storage on your PS4 console, go to Settings Storage.  · I believe this is because the disc drive speed isn't up to snuff but someone might have a more technical/accurate answer as to why games need to be downloaded/installed. that's correct the read Operating System: PS4. Answer: Same reason why PC games is installed from the physical disc into the HDD. The reason is to reduce load times. PS4 may use bluray disc (and bluray drive) which is much faster compared to CD and DVD but it still can’t match HDD (usually SATA3) transfer rate. PC games have been installed.

Hi - Bumblebee's reply is correct, you can plug your HDD into any PS4, but to play the games installed on it you'll either need the disc that the data came from, or be signed in with the PSN account that downloaded the game. If you're upgrading to a PS4 Pro, you should be able to just plug in and play without re-downloading anything. On Xbox you didn't have to do that, but you still had to test the game running from a hard disk instead of the DVD. Some games actually run worse from the hard disk because they were made under the assumption it would be played from a DVD. But on the new generation (Xbox One, PS4), developers don't have to worry about that at all. If a game has a 20GB file, but only 5MB of data within it needs to be changed, Fox said, a developer can just send out that 5MB of data over the internet and let the PS4 to do the rest. The unfortunate consequence of this bandwidth preservation is that, in order to install the 5MB change, the PS4 needs to rewrite (i.e. "copy") the entire 20GB.

Check you have enough storage space for your game. To find the required free space for the game, go to PlayStation Store on your console, select the game and scroll down to the Details section. The minimum free space appears on the right of the screen. To see the available storage on your PS4 console, go to Settings Storage. Games these days have to be installed from the disc (instead of played directly off the disc) because computers got a lot faster and disc drives only got a little bit faster - so disc drives are no-longer fast enough to keep up and they can't supply enough data fast enough for modern games. Answer (1 of 12): You don’t “download” from a disc, you install it. Nowadays pretty much all games on modern consoles go through an installation process to get.