PS4 Titles Will Be Available Day-1 On PSN, Allows Remote Pre-Loading
One of the big benefits of Steam is the ability to pre-load games before they actually release. This is a really neat feature where you can setup a game to download silently in the background. Well, Sony is adopting this same feature and they're taking it one step further with remote pre-loading.
So what's this talk of remote pre-loading? Well, PlayStation LifeStyle pulled quotes from Sony's Worldwide boss Shuhei Yoshida in his interview with the Guardian, where he notes...
This is great news for those of you out there with super-fast connection speeds where you can afford to download games at the brisk pace of a gazelle sprinting across the arid plains of Africa. But the real highlight is the ability to remotely access your account and add games when you're not even near your console thanks to the low-power mode built into the PS4, with Yoshida noting...
That's pretty wicked. You could pre-load the game from work and then, I'm guessing, Gaikai-it when you get home until the download completely finishes.
Given the piss-poor connection speeds here in America and the data caps implemented by many ISPs, I don't see the download option taking any sort of precedence over the bread and butter that is retail, but it's nice Sony is already thinking ahead of what our current internet and data infrastructure allows.
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