Oct 27, , pm EDT. Oct 13, , pm EDT. Edit Story. Mar 31, , pm EDT. James Plafke Former Staff. Tom Eversley. CCProxy is pretty straightforward. James Plafke. When you download a PS4 game, the file downloads to a specific folder. It then copies across all of the data to the games folder.
It can be explained as follows: Files can become corrupted for a number of reasons during the download process. As explained by Quora user Andrew Fox , the copying process seems to be a side effect of Sony sending out bandwidth-saving, small update files. 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.
This process makes it as if the entire file had been downloaded fresh, reducing the risk of the 5MB patch causing problems with any old, conflicting data. As games continue getting bigger and bigger, this process will take even longer. We tested six multiplatform games on both consoles and every time, the PS4 was under a minute while the Xbox One install was several minutes long and required downloading an update before beginning the installation.
When you include downloading those updates for each Xbox One game that happen in the background on PS4, the install times can get as high as fifteen minutes before you can even launch the game.
Remember that this is only a test of how long the games initially take to install. Once the games are fully installed, they take about the same amount of time to boot up on either console. So here's the general idea: You put in a game to install it, a progress bar comes up, and at some point you can launch the game and start playing while it keeps installing. On PS4, after inserting a disc, you'll be shown a progress bar that ends when you're able to launch the game, and if there's a day-one update, it downloads in the background, and you can install it when you want to play online or whatever the case may be for that update.
On Xbox One, you insert a disc and are shown a progress bar showing the percentage of the full installation, and when enough is installed to run the game, you'll see a message that says 'Ready to Start! Now, there's another big difference here. Both consoles will let you know when the game is ready to launch. But once you get into the game, some parts may not be finished installing. However, it seems that Xbox One lets you launch a game even before some singleplayer content is ready.
I tested this with Madden 25 on Xbox One.
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