PS4 Play As You Download: What Happens If You Stop The Download?

If you want to manage your download rates and play games at the same time, what happens if you reach the point you've downloaded to?

[GreenRanger]

Won't you have to download a certain amount before you begin playing?

[FamilyGuy]

Yeah like the entire multiplayer for instance, or entire single player, or single player up till a certain story point or maps in the multiplayer. Depends on how the devs split it up.

The answer to that twitter question was obvious -_-

[Caleb_H]

If games are 50gb then I'll just stick with discs and download them when I have the time. 6gb takes about 2 hours for me right now, I don't feel like doing the math, but I know that would make 50gb's take almost a day. My gamestop is 10mins away...

[Eonjay]

Got to love Shu's straightforward response:

"@Gaetano_Prestia game would say you cannot play further"

LOL what else would possibly happen!

[FamilyGuy]

Yup, just like old PS1 games stopping and saying "Please insert disc 2". I really wonder what this guy thought would possibly happen other than this...

[UltimateMaster]

The question is; if something stops, will it stop?
The answer is; Duh!? Of course it will.

[MurDocINC]

Better question is when will Steam implement this feature?

[jadenkorri]

HOW THE HELL IS THIS NEWS. Let alone how did such a dumb question get asked on twitter. Ok,I'm done, this site is getting so bad, its beyond bad. I have no words to describe this site anymore It used to be a great site but now is all about hits than news.. I realize its been like that for awhile but still. Was hoping to get better. Yes I was naive, but hopeful.

[kayoss]

If you stop the download and try to play it afterward. The apocalypse begin.

[showtimefolks]

its like asking what would happen if i turn off my console wile playing a game disk, lol

[PoSTedUP]

your Xbox blows up and it makes a Wii U cry.

i already explained this through tetrahedral physics in the other article regading split dementions and whatnot.

[Hufandpuf]

Yes yes, I remember. Very interesting reading I must say.

[PoSTedUP]

thank you, im writing a book titled "the download time of travel" :p be sure to check it out on the Ebook store. xd

[sAVAge_bEaST]

It all breaks down to the flower of life, and the 64 tetrahedra matrix.

[s8anicslayer]

Isn't that kind of a dumb question to ask? If you paused the download and played to the point you paused to where on earth would the data for that game be for you to play any further? It's not streaming your downloading it.

[Elimin8]

"where on earth would the data for that game be for you to play any further?"

lol... IKR?!

[KONAAs]

maybe he taught the ps4 would make up the ending of the game, or a clofhanger ending, like if ut download stops in chapter 3 then ur fucked till the sequel comes out

[DigitalRaptor]

So Yoshida confirmed that it will prompt a message telling you you can't play any further until more has downloaded? That's reasonable enough, until Gaikai lets you stream the entire thing.

[hesido]

Streaming the portion while downloading the game, if that's what you mean, should easily prevent the download, or the download would prevent the stream, unless you have gazillionobit/sec connection, which, in such a case, means you'd need to wait for a few more minutes anyway.

So no, streaming the game from Gaikai while the game downloads in the background. It just doesn't make sense.

[xhi4]

No sh1t.

[Xsilver]

what did people expect i mean seriously its common sense.

[ginsunuva]

What happens if you're driving and you turn off the car?

[ironfist92]

car would say you cannot drive further

[Bathyj]

If you stop the download you cant defeat the final Boss.

[wenaldy]

You have to download certain partition of the game, if it meets the condition you'll be allowed to play in certain point, if it doesn't you'll be reminded (TLoU for example).

[Hicken]

What happens if you stop breathing?

[lyvon]

"what happens if you reach the point you've downloaded to?"

Never seen a more stupid question.

It's called 'Play As You Download' - if you reach the point you've DOWNLOADED to, you can't PLAY any further.

[Juste_Belmont]

Seems pretty obvious. It's the same thing that happens if you take the disk out of your console while you're playing.

[buynit]

O_o

Smdh... Walks away..

[AceBlazer13]

running out of questions about ps4 i see.

[BozoLoco]

Does this mean it's possible to just download the single player and get the multiplayer later?

[Mr_Writer85]

Yes as I think all games are split in such a way. I think they show that in one of the videos.

I don't remember it full will try and find you a link.

Edit:

Here you go at 1:20 its shows him buying Killzone and can choose to download single or multiplayer first.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?...

[GentlemenRUs]

I still wonder to this day how they did the disc swapping on the PS1...

Was it kept in memory? Was it partly loaded? Did the disc trick the PS1?

The beauty of the Playstation!

[SaulGoodman]

The download stops. Now sit in the corner till PS5 is announced.

[MAULxx]

I'm not planning on doing very much downloading.
Installing, maybe. I'll be downloading some indies just because they won't be on disc.
If you can install a game to the HDD while playing I'll do that at times but there will be hard copies, many hard copies, game boxes, on my shelf, many hard copies, discs, in the PS4 section, on my shelf, did I mention hard copies?
M a n y "physical" HARD.... C o p i e s.
On my shelf....

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[madpuppy]

10-4 man, Physical media is still the best.

[neogeo]

It stops. Then your directed to your IPS's upgrade website that already has your saved credit card info linked with the PS store only a click away, so you can pay as you go for more bandwidth! :) great idea!

Also if your PS4 is hooked up to your Xbone, the Xbone will detect your slow connected and interrupt your game with a new window to download the New Super GOld Live membership $129.99 per mo, that will boost your PS4's bandwidth and MS will also be partnered with your local cable provider so you will also need to upgrade your TV and internet package to a premium Platinum deal with HBO $199 with a 4 year contract and $300 early cancellation fee.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

PS4 will stop working and require an online check-in for authentication

[Mr_Writer85]

So he answers are stupid question like that but ignored mine.

Which was what happens to a game if my Vita runs out of battery during remote play?

Does it automatically default back the PS4? Does the game pause until you either turn a dual shock 4 on or reconnect with your Vita?

If I loose wifi connection suddenly for whatever reason am I able to reconnect to the PS4 and pick up were I left off?

[madpuppy]

when they don't answer a question...that's when you have to worry. or maybe not... :P

[TalonJH]

Remote play is only mirroring your PS4. If someone turns on the TV and switches to the PS4s input they will see a game playing by it's self. If you lose connection I'm pretty confident that the PS4 will behave like a PS3 does when a controller runs out of battery. As for starting remote play back up, unlike the PS3 remote play is drop-in/drop-out.

[Ingram]

Most of you may know this already, but let me break it down:

The first thing would be installing the "logic" of the game, the engine and *some* assets, that is, those pieces neccessary to start playing the game. This could range from 30Mb up to 700Mb aprox.

[kaozgamer]

lol

[LoTuZ]

You stop playing. :/

[OmegaShen]

Kind of a good question, because maybe its a PSN game you just want to jump in. The part that might suck the most is if your internet is really slow or is slow that day.

[-Gespenst-]

I've never quite understood how this worked anyway. I think of it as being like if you torrent a film, but stop it halfway and try to watch it- it's not the case that you only have the first half of the film, it's basically the full thing, but it's peppered with all sorts of glitches and missing parts- audio and visual. Is it not the same with games? How could you play a game that's incompletely downloaded? Would it not be the buggiest thing ever? Especially if you consider that games are made up in a much more complex way than video files.

[hesido]

Such a feature requires effort from the developers, probably automated to a certain degree to pack stuff in required order in development environment, and mark chunks of the data with necessary hooks so that the game will know if that portion is downloaded.

[monkey602]

I get what you mean. Like the last hour of the game could well have been the first 7% you downloaded that it doesnt download in the same playing sequence. I imagine they have changed that for this feature. However i had it in my mind that it was divided into segments and you download it in whichever you want to play first. Like multiplayer you have to download the full multiplayer first and you can download the single player while you go online or vice versa.

[Dark_Eternal]

Obviously when you run out of game, the character stumbles out of the game world... into real life! I'm so excited! :D

[monkey602]

Simpsons did it!

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[360ICE]

Don't facepalm yourself to sleep. First of all, that's a difficult way to get some rest. Second of all, the question wasn't THAT silly. Sure, the answer is pretty obvious, but hey, at least now we know. I guarantee you it's a better question than the average game journalism question.

[Hallow]

DO NOT TRY THIS! A friend of a friends friend tried this while downloading a song then died in a car accident 5 years later!

[boneso82]

If it was on xbone, the "infinite power of the cloud" would just live stream a completely unique version of the game it is making up on the spot and reacting to your every move in new and exciting ways you cannot even imagine!

Ps "infinite" do MS not understand the definition of the word? 300,000 is a big number, sort of, but not in comparison to "infinite". Infinite power would mean games could be natively rendered at 100800p scaled down to fit a 1080p TV, and run at 6billion fps. Lol... Infinite!

[PS4isKing_82]

What happens when youre taking a dump and you realize there's no toilet paper?

[reko]

then your f*****.

[ziggurcat]

what happens when you stop thinking?

you make a fool out of yourself over twitter.

[memots]

a twitter question made top page on n4g ... yikes.

[annus]

Using common sense you could assume the situation would be somewhat similar to ejecting the disc while playing...