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USGamer: game downloads are much faster on the PS5 compared to PS4

Kolx

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Oct 25, 2017
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While installing games on the PlayStation 5 for the testing, I was also struck by the fact that it felt like games were downloading much quicker. Despite some fan statements to the contrary, it can take much longer to download games on the PS4 versus Steam or even the Xbox One. I have a rather robust Verizon FIOS internet—756 Mbps down, 939 Mbps up—and I have both systems wired to the router, so I know that's never been the problem. I decided to test the difference with small and medium-sized PS4 games.

For the small game, I chose Disgaea 5, which comes in at a very slight 6.58 GB. On the PlayStation 4 Pro, it took 10 minutes and 42 seconds to download the entire game, versus the mere 1 minute and 58 seconds on the PlayStation 5. From there, it only took 1 minute and 2 seconds to transfer to the external hard drive, making it playable on both systems.

The medium-sized game I chose was Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, standing at 36.6 GB in total size. That took a total of 58 minutes and 34 seconds to download completely on my PS4 Pro. On PS5? 7 minutes and 1 second. From nearly an hour to under ten minutes is an astonishing drop in terms of download times. That's almost worth the price of admission alone. Suffice it to say, you probably don't need to keep your PlayStation 4 around anymore.
 

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Oct 27, 2017
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I can believe it.

Got a laptop that has SSD and in some cases downloads are instant while on my older laptop it would take 4 minutes or so.
 
Mattmo831

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Am I the only one who had full speed ps4 downloads (on a pro) via Ethernet? I portforwarded all my ports and I could get up to 700mbps download on it
 

ANDS

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Why wouldn't they be? It's a faster hard drive it's downloading to.
 

ElNino

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Nov 6, 2017
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This is great to hear considering I'm planning on downloading a bunch of the PS4 games I have in my library on the PS5.

ANDS said:
Why wouldn't they be? It's a faster hard drive it's downloading to.
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I'm fairly sure the HDD isn't the bottleneck on the PS4. Most people assumed it was the shitty CDN they were using, but I guess there could also be a CPU benefit of unpacking the game while it downloads.
 
Aniki

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yep one of the most important improvements. It's seems to be so much faster, it's exciting.
 
Mbolibombo

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Oct 29, 2017
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Yeah that was one of my biggest gripes with PS4. The download speeds

Nice to so it being much better
 
Nameless

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Oct 25, 2017
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PS4 downloads were fast for me after 2015/6 or so, faster than my XB1 in fact. But good to hear.
 
Winstano

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Can confirm this. It maxes out my connection, was getting 45MB/s (350mb connection)
 
Sky87

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A lot of this includes writing to a slow-ass HDD on PS4, so it will obviously be faster overall on PS5.

The actual download speeds should theoretically be the same though.
 
Maple

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This is good to hear. I have a 500 Mbps connection and can hit that mark consistently on Steam downloads, yet PS4 (and Xbox One) never come close, even over ethernet.
 
Lord Fanny

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Ain't saying much, at least on my end. PS4 downloads are as slow as Nevada's vote counting.
 
Cleve

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Hopefully they resolve their OS issues with background/suspended apps slowing downloads. That was always my biggest problem on PS4 before I worked around it.
 
Xando

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Maybe we should wait until the network is actually under stress. I have great download numbers on PS4 at night but not on the day
 
Linus815

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Maple said:
This is good to hear. I have a 500 Mbps connection and can hit that mark consistently on Steam downloads, yet PS4 (and Xbox One) never come close, even over ethernet.
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Xb1 has a cap on download speeds, presumably the PS4 too, the cpu's and hdd's of those boxes are not really designed to handle ultra fast download speeds
 
OnionPowder

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I hope this stays true after release

The PS4 download speeds are almost offensive considering we pay for network access in games.

Linus815 said:
Xb1 has a cap on download speeds, presumably the PS4 too, the cpu's and hdd's of those boxes are not really designed to handle ultra fast download speeds
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Based on my PS4 Pro's download speeds it's not even meant to handle slow downloads either.
 
tusharngf

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Real

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Going from a base, original model PS4 to PS5 is going to feel like alien technology to me, lmao.
 
plain

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Oct 27, 2017
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Nice. I pay a good premium on gigabit and I'm so glad I can finally use it on a damn console.
 
CarterTax

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Oct 25, 2017
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I never had an issue with download speeds on PS4/Pro hard-wired. I would routinely get 20-30 MB per second which is well within the 300Mbps I should be expected to get. It didn't always max it out as it should have gotten me 37.5 MB per second but it never seemed an issue for me.

Glad it's better for people who were having issues though
 
Wrexis

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Nov 4, 2017
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Azure for the win I guess. Last year:

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cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services.
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nikasun :D

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Oct 30, 2017
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I was gonna say "Well, not many PS5 users online right now", but I all the PS4 users are probably using the same network.
 
neptunez

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Is there a technical reason for why this is?
Like there aren't many PS5 users online yet, even though they use the same servers, could that have an effect?
 
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