Migration to PlayStation®4 Version Patch System

[ShadowHunterrX]

From my personal experience with large games like TESO (which is in the same ballpark figure like FF14 sizewise) or Overwatch. The speed of your internet connection really doesn't matter very much here as the most part is spent checking the existing file and then reassembling them. This will take some time. Smaller patches for TESO (which were 200-300 MB) took 30-90 minutes, depending on if the console was in rest mode or in use (using the console for anything else while downloading/installing a patch will drastically slow down the patch process. Larger patches took from 1 hour (rest mode) to 4 hours (console online).

That depends on the game and not really if the game is large, Overwatch is only around 23gb and TESO 100gb. Ever since the 4.0 OS patch, Sony put in *copying* in the patch progress. Which is in another words *overwrite*. So they can slash the requirements GB for installing and make it smaller. They did it also for Overwatch 27gb to 13gb in 2017. Today still smaller with all new content added to it. Patch with 200mb small files can make things *copying* longer then one 1-2 gb big file. Only a faster HDD or SSD will help.

The old patch system was only adding new files and the old files stayed, fast install-bigger games.

I am happy with this new FFXIV patch system. PS4 download was always capped around 8mb when updating. On PSN I have around 30mb.