The lights are on
Sony has announced that digital pre-orders are open now for some PlayStation 4 titles. Each of the four titles comes with a bonus.
Killzone: Shadow Fall will come with The Shadow Pack, which includes the soundtrack, a skin for the in-game OWL drone, and a "multiplayer spotlight move." Call of Duty: Ghosts (in standard or hardened editions) comes with the Free Fall map.
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (in standard or gold edition) comes with an Aveline ship figurehead. Finally, Battlefield 4 comes with the China Rising expansion pack.
As a reminder, Assassin's Creed IV, Battlefield 4, and Call of Duty: Ghosts are eligible for the $10 upgrade plan. If you purchase one of these titles on PlayStation 3 (digitally or via retail), you can upgrade to the PlayStation 4 digital version for $10 more. For more on how that works, read our previous coverage.
[Source: PlayStation Blog]
Our TakeI love the idea of digital pre-orders, assuming that purchasers will be able to pre-load content once consoles are in-hand. Next-generation titles are likely to be quite large. My only hesitation about digital alongside the console launch is the immense server traffic that could pop up. If Sony (and a week later Microsoft) weather the storm and are able to deliver data and get people playing quickly, it will go a long way to allaying my fears about these enormous game downloads.
I go digital only if its the only option, or at least much cheaper.
Its so inconvenient to have to wait 10+ hours for ps3 games. I'm not waiting 40+ for a 50 gig ps4. Forget not being able to play the game that long. There are 5 people in my house, tying up all the bandwidth for that long will cause problems for everyone. Plus thats 10% of the harddrive on one game, that you never delete because it takes so long redownload.
Digital only is a pipe dream until we all have unlimited access to those super high speed downloads.
when i played battlefield 4 beta is that online only game
I have more digital games on my ps3 than I ever played on it with discs. So I know something for sure... Digital games are not done propperly optimized. They lag rendering textures and even artifacts. That is something not specific to any particular game... it seems to be something genral.
Of course, there are exception to the digital games I own, like for example tomb raider or need for speed most wanted, which I do not see the texture rendering issue, but everything else seems to be rushed out to make money no matter what.
See, when you have your disc in the system, the console can read the internal hard drive for textures at the same time it reads the disc. It is not the same to read everything from just the hard drive.
Also price, I mean, come on, you go to a playstation store right now and modern warfare 3 cost about 40 dollars, and go to amazon and the price will be much lower brand new, and even lower if I buy it preowned.
I really wanted to make my library totally digital for next gen, but I am not sure they will make the games better optimized for that.
This, and the convenience or reselling after playing the game, plus digital cost the same and price rarely goes down, makes me not want to buy digital games at all, unless the game is known to be well developed and the price is better than its disc counterpart.
That's cool,i prefer buying a physical copy of a game though.
I am confused why you have to pre order a digital game? I thought you pre order to get some perk like pre ordering from GameStop or something. Isn't one of the PS4 marketing points that you can play your game while it downloads? Why the need to pre order then?
I am very surprised that Microsoft has failed to do the same thing for their Xbox One.