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At least I can download Fortnight. 5 hour download? Really? And What's This Feature? It's downloading at 20% the speed of the internet I'm paying for.

You got a new PS4 and tried to download games/updates from PSN on Christmas...which is the WORST day to do so because of how many OTHER people are doing the same thing. PSN download server bandwidth is finite.

Every year, the various gaming websites do articles like "parents, you might want to open up the PS4 box and prepare it before christmas"

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-...

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/1...

Now generally, it's a bit better later on, say after 8pm, but if you have a big 50GB game to download it's going to take a while. I heartily recommend at least 50Mb/s download if you're going to do a lot of big digital games, or MMO's/MMOish games.

Also if you're downloading AND a physical game is installing at the same time, the hard drive only has so much bandwidth.

Fortnite shouldn't take too long to download unless you've got a slow connection. Total size for the thing now is about 16GB total. In comparison Final Fantasy XV is 92GB, Elder Scrolls Online is 87GB.

I hadn't heard of it, so for those interested, here's a decent writeup on the 'NPC meme'. I'm surprised the article didn't make the comparison to philosophical zombies, as it's a similar concept.

Apparently, LEGO Universe actually died because the cost of keeping the game G-rated was too high. http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/0...