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Sony has spoken about accessing your PS4 games on any machine, and how PlayStation 4′s ability to ‘play as you download’ makes, “a digital [game] library a practical option in the real world”.

PS4′s digital library lets you play games anywhere
Speaking at Develop, Neil Brown, Sony’s R&D senior team leader, outlined the process that lets you access your games on other machines at other people’s houses:

“You can visit your friends house you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good. But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world.”

He also explained more about how the same system means you’ll never have to wait for games to install. Instead you can play instantly but still benefit from the faster loading and streaming from PS4′s hard drive thanks to more background processes:

“A similar system also works on Blu-ray, chunks are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player. They don’t have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive.”

News Via: Official Playstation Magazine

That's the way it should be done!  Very cool.

Yes very cool. Waiting to here about how many systems you can have activated at once though. Probably 2 like now though...

Quote:“a digital [game] library a practical option in the real world”*

* In the US

Regardless, that's cool of them.

it may be a system like sky GO whereby you may only have two devices active at a time and can only use three devices per month (thus means you can only change oa device once) of course there will be the option of more devices if you're willing to pay.

Mr. Shizzy Wrote: [ -> ]Sony has spoken about accessing your PS4 games on any machine, and how PlayStation 4′s ability to ‘play as you download’ makes, “a digital [game] library a practical option in the real world”.

PS4′s digital library lets you play games anywhere
Speaking at Develop, Neil Brown, Sony’s R&D senior team leader, outlined the process that lets you access your games on other machines at other people’s houses:

“You can visit your friends house you can log into your account and play any game from your digital library, which is good. But how useful is that if it takes half a day to download the game you want to play? With Play As You Download you get much quicker access to at least the first section of the game so you can start playing quicker. So this makes a digital library a practical option in the real world.”

He also explained more about how the same system means you’ll never have to wait for games to install. Instead you can play instantly but still benefit from the faster loading and streaming from PS4′s hard drive thanks to more background processes:

“A similar system also works on Blu-ray, chunks are automatically copied to the hard drive in the background. This means that after the first few minutes your game can rely on having faster read speeds from the hard drive. Which provides a better experience for players, and this is a completely background process for the player. They don’t have to wait for anything to install before playing the game. The game will launch as soon as the disk has been put in the drive.”

News Via: Official Playstation Magazine

Honestly, this is one of those features that made the PS4 feel way ahead of its time. I remember going to a friend’s place, logging into my account, and being able to start playing my digital games without needing to carry anything with me—it felt like magic.

The Play As You Download thing was such a game-changer too. Not having to wait hours just to get to the title screen? Huge. And even with discs, the fact that it installs in the background while you’re already playing… just smooth. It’s those small details that really show Sony was thinking about how people actually play games in real life.