Every PlayStation 4 Title to be Digitally Downloadable

[Shawn Zipay]

In an interview with The Guardian, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida revealed some information that should make gamers quite happy. In addition to physical retail releases, PlayStation 4 titles will also be available as digital downloads.

I believe it's very important for the platform to have a wide variety of developers making things that are unique and creative. We're shifting our platform more and more to the digital side – PS4 will be similar to PS Vita in that every game will be available as a digital download, and some will also be available as a disc. The Witness will be a digital release and because of the flexibility of the digital distribution scheme, we can have more small games that might be free or available for a couple of dollars, or different services like free-to-play or subscription models.

Also, wondering why the PlayStation 4 wasn't shown off at the PlayStation 2013 event? It's simple: The hardware wasn't ready yet. Instead of rushing it, they simply decided not to show it yet.

(via Guardian)

[5t3v0]

Thats a smater method than forced banning of Pre owned titles.

[stilla-killa]

It better come with a big HDD then.

[5t3v0]

It better come with a big HDD then.

I think 500gb is the minimum. Welcome to 2007 I say.

[stilla-killa]

I download way more games on my Xbox360 than I do on my PS3 simply because I have a bigger HDD on my Xbox.

[Dotslash]

Can't you just put in your own hdd? I think the ps3 could do that.

[Shawn Zipay]

There's no saying yet whether or not the HDD on the new consoles will be easily replaceable. That's something you have to wait and see on.