PS4 Lets You Play Games While They Download! Instantly Stream Demos!

Hopefully you’re keeping up with our liveblog of today’s Sony Playstation 4 announcement. If not, this tidbit of news was too good not to pass on.

PS3 owners know just how annoying it can be to buy a game from the Playstation store… and then wait hours and hours for it to download. This will be a thing of the past with the newly announced Playstation 4; the console features dedicated background processing that will allow you to play a game as soon as you buy it. The data you need will be instantly streamed, and the rest will download in the background.

This is set to work for demos too; rather than having to wait for a multi gigabyte demo to download (by which time you’ve likely lost interest in it), Sony’s Gakai service will stream the entire thing to your console.

Amazing! What do you think of the announcements so far?