FF14 PS4 install/update time?

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SSD would be prohibitively expensive to even consider seeing how each game takes up in the range of 50GBs unless you only play 1-2 games at any given time.

That's not true anymore for a LONG time ... I have both PS3 as well as PS4 with SSD (120 GB and 480 GB) and prices are very low for decent and fast SSDs. I have 2 friends who bought PS4s exclusivelly to play FF and both put in 120 GB SSD and have no issues whatsoever, even still have space to download a bunch of "free" PSN+ games.

As for an SSD, I wouldn't. Yes, they do boot faster, but it's really only going to speed up start times etc. Once the game is running, it's very smooth on the standard HD. Also, SSDs have a limited write lifespan, meaning each time you save to it, its life is shortened a bit. So it's really not ideal for a game console that saves regularly.

You clearly have no idea how SSDs (and OS-es like Windows or linux) works - each OS saves data to hard drives all the time - consoles actually do that much less often. Also - the speed is not only about starting up the game itself but also about loading up the zones during transitions and instances (like dungeons and trials). On both PS3 as well as PS4 I'm usually first one to load up there. The whole console is also quieter and little bit less hot. So it's definitelly both worh as well as already affordable to use SSD in both consoles.