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Sony’s PlayStation Network is no stranger to issues. Over the years, it has been so bad that the company has promised that the service will be improved for the upcoming PlayStation 4. The promise comes on the heels of the recent troubles faced by those who bought the digital PlayStation Network version of Grand Theft Auto 5.
“First of all, it is definitely going to grow as a means of consumption,” PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara told Eurogamer at the recent Eurogamer Expo. “And there are big innovations in the PS4 to make it more attractive and more easy gamer wise to want to download.
“The Play as you Download functionality, for example, means you don’t need the whole file before you go. This is a little bit counterbalanced by the fact the files themselves are getting bloody big. Killzone: Shadow Fall is an uber file - I think it’s cracking on for 50GB. It looks it, too, when you see it.
”[Downloading games] is still a relatively tedious process. We’ve done a lot of work on pre-delivering files. It’s not perfect. It’s not seamless.”
PSN hopefully won’t be this bad
Gara talked about putting games through more rigorous QA processes to make sure that they don’t suffer the same fate as GTA 5 did.
The PlayStation Network version of Grand Theft Auto 5 turned out to be the weakest of all of the versions since it ran the game completely off the HDD rather than streaming some data off the HDD and some off the disc.
These issues were presumably because of the streaming technology that Rockstar has employed with GTA 5. The extra bandwidth afforded from streaming from both the disc as well as the HDD seems to be better for the game when compared to just streaming from the HDD. This is especially bad since the digital release of GTA 5 is more expensive than the retail release.
Grand Theft Auto 5 is currently out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for Rs 2,999. Check out our review if you’re still on the fence about buying it.
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