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ren of heavens

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Killzone: Shadow Fall is a 50 GB download



Are you planning to download Killzone: Shadow Fall to your PS4 in lieu of buying a physical copy? If so, you’d better get ready for a massive download. Sony has just revealed that the full download for Shadow Fall will land at 50 GB -- 10% of the PS4’s total storage limit of 500 GB.
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On an average 10-15 mbps connection , that would take hours on end to download. If your isp imposes any monthly data caps, that's another problem. And if kz shadow fall is any indication of the average size of ps4 games in future, you better get ready to invest in a large sized hdd (2 tb or so).
 
Not going DD only, at least to begin with as I rely too much on trading games in, at least for day-one purchases. My ISP just put in data caps and for my tier its 250GB. Wouldn't take long with normal Internet activities, streaming movies, and game downloads, etc to easily hit that mark.
 
Probably been answered before, but can you still install games to your HD this generation? Would it be the same size as a digital downloaded copy, and will it still make the console quieter, or is that simply not needed anymore?
 
All games have to be installed but you can start playing them as they install on XBox One and PS4.

50GB for a launch title? Gotta be padded like Resistance was surely? Aren't the disc only 50GB?
 
Downloads and patches are gonna suck this gen for the big games. It's moments like that where a data cap on devs don't seem like that bad of an idea.
 
It's a 50gb download? Last gen's early console models didn't even come with that much hdd space lol. Screw going full digital distribution.
 
Damn, that's a lot. That would take me like a week to download at night. Yeah, I might re-think digital downloading on a case by case basis.
 
Extremely unlikely to be true.

I doubt the game is over 20GB.

That's an off the cuff remark from an executive who "thinks the file is cracking 50GB."

"And it looks it too!"

Lol. As if the games looks magically equate to a massive download. More detailed games exist on PC and are 10-15GB.

And the "file"?

Yeah... I'm sure it's one giant 50GB file.
 
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Its probably uncompressed audio that makes the filesize huge. Kinda like mgs4 on the ps3 filled a dual layer
 
While it is huge, and file sizes are probably going to get that large or larger this gen as time goes on, it doesn't deter me from digital..it would take me about 3 hours to download that.
 
ren of heavens said:
http://www.qj.net/ps3/news/gta-onli...-a-ridiculous-download-thats-huge/page-3.html

On an average 10-15 mbps connection , that would take hours on end to download. If your isp imposes any monthly data caps, that's another problem. And if kz shadow fall is any indication of the average size of ps4 games in future, you better get ready to invest in a large sized hdd (2 tb or so).
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It would take me 13 hours and 45 minutes to download if I didn't use my connection for anything else besides simple web browsing.

We've had this conversation about data caps countless times on TXB. We've had people claim that "there is no such thing as data caps" and that "tiered plans" have replaced them.

Most people just won't really get it until they get kicked off their ISP. The good news is it will bring a lot of awareness to the issue of data caps. The bad news is some people will end up losing their internet access entirely before anything is done.
 
GeorgeSoros said:
It would take me 13 hours and 45 minutes to download if I didn't use my connection for anything else besides simple web browsing.

We've had this conversation about data caps countless times on TXB. We've had people claim that "there is no such thing as data caps" and that "tiered plans" have replaced them.

Most people just won't really get it until they get kicked off their ISP. The good news is it will bring a lot of awareness to the issue of data caps. The bad news is some people will end up losing their internet access entirely before anything is done.
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Not sure about in the states, but here in Canada I'm pretty sure there is regulations in place saying that the companies cannot cancel service if you exceed the cap. Shaw turned to a tiered system, and once you hit the top tier you are billed for anything additional. Only if you don't pay the bill can they cancel service. Telus still has caps no tiered system, but they are a soft cap and don't really enforce it. I have exceeded my cap many times and never heard a peep, and when I say exceeded i mean in the 100's of gigs range of exceeded.
 
SevenDead1ySinz said:
Not sure about in the states, but here in Canada I'm pretty sure there is regulations in place saying that the companies cannot cancel service if you exceed the cap. Shaw turned to a tiered system, and once you hit the top tier you are billed for anything additional. Only if you don't pay the bill can they cancel service. Telus still has caps no tiered system, but they are a soft cap and don't really enforce it. I have exceeded my cap many times and never heard a peep, and when I say exceeded i mean in the 100's of gigs range of exceeded.
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Yeah, we can't do that here. You go over the cap 3 consecutive months and you get kicked off your ISP.
 
I recently switched to cable and have a 50mbps connection (most of the time) I'm still not going to go all digital though. I want to be able to trade in games etc, that's one thing you can't do with digital, at least not at the moment (supposedly MS is looking into doing this somehow in the future) I also don't want to wait a couple of hours to play a game when it only takes me a few minutes to drive to gamestop and back.
 
I have a 10gb monthly data cap... I hope this DD stuff doesn't take over anytime soon.
 
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