yeah, I remember a 600MB Forza update on Xbox One base console... it took without any exaggeration ONE hour to install/apply/download the patch. This is crazy.
But its not. It is time. It can be measured. Your opinion can say that 12 hours feels longer than 24 hours, but it doesn't make it right.
I guess this topic here is about patches, not installing a game. And that can also take ages on PS4, it really depends on the game. While applying to patches takes ages on PS4 in general. Last week I waited more than 30 minutes for "copying" patch data to GTS.
But 360 already did differential and cumulative patches last gen and it never "copied" actually anything, I don't remember at least.
Having installed Gran Turismo 6 from disc to PS3 three years ago - it downloaded more than 10 updates in total and applied *each patch* individually and when we wanted to start the game an INGAME INSTALLER!! started again to apply patches. I guess it's just a tradition for GT games at this point but it apparently got better on PS4, a little bit.
It's not anecdotal. Xbox is much faster with downloads, installs, patches.
It did, just not apparent in the same manner. We were dealing with an order of magnitude less data back then, with generally the same drive speeds as we have now, SSDs aside (not to mention for much of the console's lifespan you didn't install games themselves to the hard drive).
An order of magnitude would been that instead of 40 minutes copy job for GTS it would have been 4 minutes for a game on 360 and I never saw that happening, to be honest. In any case, it's bad.
Yeah, that's why I was so concerned with the PC version of Path of Exile's patches taking so long on steam. I wanted the game on SSD since it benefit so much from it but I didn't want it to wear the SSD out. Thankfully the standalone version doesn't patch like steam and it's very fast.
This myth needs to die.'
I just tested mine on the speedtest on PC and PS4.This is not true at all. The copying stuff comes from the HDD speed and only apply patch to a game. This is my install of Batman Arkham Knight PS plus version. It was installing and downloading at the same time. I have a very good internet fiber connection (600 Mbits/600 Mbits) and the PSN test gives me 590 Mbits it is better than speedtest site on Internet(300/350 Mbits). My PS4 is wired... It made patch taking more time than install of a game...
Edit: I installed Batman this morning. I took a photo because this is very fast and it surprise me...
I just tested mine on the speedtest on PC and PS4.
DL on PC was 218mbps
DL on PS4 was 61mbps
I used the same wire with both just to make sure it wasn't related to that.
Seems to be going even slower from what I can tell by downloading the first demo I saw.
Every program you update does this, on any platform. OS's always allocate space in the event patching is aborted so that it can revert the update and not destroy a pre-existing install.
Yeah Steam has blazing fast downloads. I just tested Steam download speeds and it was downloading near my full speed. 6GB download in around 3.5 minutes compared to PS4 which was telling me a 7.5GB download will take 10 minutes (almost 3x as long for 1.5GB difference!)
No it's been like this for ages, across 3 different network setups. I've come to the conclusion it's simply slow PSN download speeds as opposed to something being wrong with every network I use considering everything else runs blazing fast like the Steam example above.
This is literally my TV right now and I just decided to play The Witcher 3
I get fast speeds, it is not a matter of PSN is slow as i've shown you in those youtube videos. People get up to Gigabit speeds. My network 250Mbs on PSN i get up to 150Mbs. The below test is on Wifi btw not hardwired.
I just tested mine on the speedtest on PC and PS4.
DL on PC was 218mbps
DL on PS4 was 61mbps
I used the same wire with both just to make sure it wasn't related to that.
This is literally my TV right now and I just decided to play The Witcher 3
It's ok to say I've never seen it but believe me and the rest of us that this is a thing - and it took already ten minutes to get to 23 %.
Nope the game is digital but this really doesn't matter as the disc is copied to disk anyway. After it's installed, a patch is a patch.
But then I would expect the patches also vary in size which I doubt, to be honest. But you never know, so you might also be right in the end.
My X1X takes FOREVER for updates and installs. But yeah, the whole copying thing on ps4 is ridiculous sometimes, but sometimes it doesn't do it at all so I don't get it.
