If you’re playing a game, especially a game you’re downloading an update for, the ps4 slows down the download as to not negatively affect your gameplay. So far, Microsoft has yet to directly confirm whether it’s throttling Xbox download speeds in a similar fashion. Everyone else was talking about how it could be the internet connection, and it could be, but there is another reason too. But downloading to my PS4 Pro's external SSD, speed is almost using my ISP's max speed consistently even in rest mode. “We will continue to take appropriate action to do our part to help ensure internet stability as this unprecedented situation continues to evolve,” Sony’s post reads. So with my OG PS4 with the stock internal HDD, I am having issues with downloads going very slow when it is in rest mode and I have to pause and unpause to refresh the speed again.
It might happens that some files of game/app you recently installed on PS4 are. YouTube has dropped the default quality of videos to standard definition worldwide, though high definition (HD) can still be manually selected. When your hard drive gets to 95 percent full, PS4 can slow down by 50 percent. Companies such as Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Apple, and Disney have reduced video streaming quality to help with the strain from millions of people now being stuck at home as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads. on your other devices on the network and compare their speeds to the PS4s. This means players will have “somewhat slower or delayed“ times downloading games Sony has said previously that gameplay will remain “robust” for those playing online. I have a ps4 that is running very slow but my internet speed is excellent. The company already enacted this policy in Europe earlier this week.
Sony is working with internet service providers in the US to slow game download speeds in an effort to preserve internet capacity for users overall, the company announced on its blog today.