Do you have to download ps4 game discs

 · Keep in mind, the original PlayStation games came on CDs with the capacity of megabytes; PS4 games on Blu-Ray discs have the capacity of 50 gigabytes, or Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. The only way you can play a PS4 game without a disc is if you have purchased it in the digital storefront and downloaded it. Older games frequently go on sale for much much less than the original disc cost, but you will still have to pay again if you want to own the game.  · I thought most retailers do not accept opened discs as returns. The logic seems to be more around the resale of discs, or, the “circulating disc” where one person buys the game and lets ten other people use it. Either way, downloading the game from disc would certainly be abused by many and thereby lower physical copy sales. –Reviews: 3.

Well if you bought the game disc, then you'll need to have the disc in the console whenever you want to play that game. It fully downloads to the HDD but the disc then acts as a validation key to let you play it. You do not need the disc in the tray to do the updates though, because you're not actually writing new information onto the disc. According to him if you get a physical copy of a game on disc it will take up less room on your hard drive then a digital of the same title. when you download a game on ps4 it will do it in. Playstation 4 Pro Game List Digital Foundry nbsp;compared load times from a Seagate 4 TB Expansion drive and the PS4's internal drive and found the external Seagate drive was noticeably faster on every game they tried running on either the base PS4 or the PS4 Pro. Even faster load times can be had with an external SSD (solid state drive) if you're willing to pay a much higher cost per GB of.

I thought most retailers do not accept opened discs as returns. The logic seems to be more around the resale of discs, or, the “circulating disc” where one person buys the game and lets ten other people use it. Either way, downloading the game from disc would certainly be abused by many and thereby lower physical copy sales. –. The only way you can play a PS4 game without a disc is if you have purchased it in the digital storefront and downloaded it. Older games frequently go on sale for much much less than the original disc cost, but you will still have to pay again if you want to own the game. Discs are passé, and the currently best available disc doesn’t even have enough space to fit a full game anymore. The best disc drive money can buy is an Ultra HD Blu-ray, capable of showing movies in beautiful 4K graphics. When used for gaming, a triple-layer Ultra HD Blu-ray can store just GB.