The website isn't up to date at allOf course you can ! The sad thing is that you have to check nowadays, depending on the game it might be different.
Back then when patches did not exist, it was a given. Check the the website.
To be clear, I 'm talking about playing the game without installing anything. I Want to put a disc/cartridges and play, no installs, just the loading times. Is this possible? There is games you can do that?Of course you can ! The sad thing is that you have to check nowadays, depending on the game it might be different.
Back then when patches did not exist, it was a given. Check the the website.
Not possible. Read times from disc aren't fast enough.
But then you have to uninstall a game everytime you get a new one. If you play from the disc, you never would have to worry about it. That one of the few advantages of physical media: you pick, you put, you play. Install process killed that.
Only on Switch. The vast majority of the games work like this. Those that require a download have it specified on the box.
I've been installing games on my console since the modded Xbox Original allowed use to install a larger HDD I can't really remember running into a situation where I was installing & deleting any time I wanted to play a new game.
There is a difference between "Day 1 patch to iron out things" and "game on disc is a broken shit and won't run without the patch", in which case the box should mention (but doesn't) "download of X required to start the game".
In this case the system update comes on the cartridge normally.
You can ignore those, unless the game is broken on release, in which case just don't buy that and problem solved.
So the system gets updated (offline) through the contents of the cartridge?
Correct, all Xbox One, PS4, Xbox Series X, and PS5 games all require full installs from the disc, they do not play the game from the disc like gen 5-7 consoles.
Switch 2 games read from the cart. I've seen some videos that show the load times can be a couple of seconds slower sometimes when playing a game from a Switch 2 cart, but nothing painful to wait for.
Why would you need to uninstall for a new game? If you have enough free space it will just work.
Yes, this can happen. I think this has existed since the Wii days.
Unless that Switch cartridge has an update, or is only partially on the cart requiring an additional 15+ GB download.
Expect they can include the entire game. So unlike game key cards, you don't need to download anything. And the majority of disks aren't region locked while the game key cards require you to have an account of the same region of the cart.
It's why I've been 100% digital since last generation. The insert a disc/cart and play functionality disappeared. That and because everything needs patches now so a day 1 disc release is kinda worthless, even for preservation, since nobody wants to return to the launch version.
Wrong. I can sell them, I can lend them. They are a better alternative to all-digital. They are not linked to my account. Just. Like. Shitty. Discs.
But unlike disks you need the download servers to be up. They have the benefit of being a physical item, but they are still tied to a digital infrastructure. We'll see what happens in 20-30 years. I can still play my NES carts to this day. An a disk that doesn't need a BS day one patch will also still work as long as I have a working console that can read the disk.
In 20 or 30 years I'll be dead or too old to hold a controller, so I don't care about that. If I did, disc rot would be among my chief concerns. I can download the game and poof it becomes a functional and physical game cartridge I can play without an internet authentication key when I'm outside of internet areas.
Ih the current and previous gen of home consoles you're required to install the disc, something that helps first with faster loading times -specially now with fast SSDs- during gameplay, second because allows devs to put more data in the disc (by heavily compressing it, and then decompress it during the install time) and third to damage less the disc because it's only used only for the install, and after that it's only used to check the console has the proper bluray disc inserted.
Have to be clear about "no patching" being on that list. Just pure disc to offline console playing.
All the way back on the 360 if you installed the game to HDD the loading times were already better.
I have a series s. I hit my limit pretty quickly and had to start doing disk management with every non indie game. Sad can't be used for games on series consoles.
DVD 1x read speeds are 1.38MB/s with drives being up to 24x so 33.12MB/s
Higher density doesn't slow down seek times (it does increase read-speeds, but that's obvious).
It's not a question of choice. You as in - user - don't perform any process/install. The moment you insert the disc the install starts automatically, the last time manual steps to install existed was the XBox 360.
The PS5 still has it, there's a "playable" status on at least some games and you can start up games before its fully copied.Higher density doesn't slow down seek times (it does increase read-speeds, but that's obvious).
It's not a question of choice. You as in - user - don't perform any process/install. The moment you insert the disc the install starts automatically, the last time manual steps to install existed was the XBox 360.
Now - early on, a bunch of PS4 games did streaming installs that allowed to play the game within minute or so of inserting the disc (so it was pretty similar to old style experience of playing direct from disc), but that's something that was largely abandoned later in the generation and no longer really exists in PS5 era.
I guess data showed that people were 'ok' with waiting for the installs
