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> I put a game into the system, and I can play within a minute, but it is a pared down version of the game while it installs

With respect, what did you expect? To be able to play the full game before it is installed?

> Oh, and if I want online multiplayer, I usually have to download a 700MB patch

Oh, the horror. I am guessing that could take as long as 10 minutes!

Talk about your first world problems....

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I can play my Xbox360 / PS3 games just fine without installing them. So a 'next-gen' console has a worse experience in that regard.

The excitement of a new toy is significantly reduced when you have to wait a couple of hours to patch it or install a game etc. I hate people that excuse mediocrity with "first world problems". Instead how about we look at ways of improving things.

From the Xbox 360 to the Dreamcast to the PS2 to the PSX to the SNES to the NES to the Atari 2600, all the games required that I simply place the game into the console and the system would run the game. Now we have this odd kludge that used to be reserved only for PCs. The other features are certainly nice to have, but the PS4 bills itself as a gaming console first, and there is a degraded experience in that regard.

> used to be reserved only for PCs

Used to be something only PCs were capable of doing.

how!!? Now we finally can have games with large environments and high texture resolutions because we aren't limited to the capacity of our discs...

"User experience" is often a first-world problem.

Hah, with my copper line fast degrading, the 700MB patch could take quite a while.

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