Speaking on the Develop conference in Brighton, England, this week, Sony’s senior research & development leader Neil Brown confirmed that PlayStation 4 players can have full access to their digital games from other PS4 consoles. “You can visit your friend’s house, you may log into your account, and [you might] play any game out of your digital library,” he told attendees.

Brown also gave some further insight on the conference into the PS4’s “play as you download” function:

“A similar system also works on Blu-ray, [whereby] chunks are automatically copied to the hard disk drive within the background. Which means after the primary short time, your game can depend upon having faster read speeds from the hard disk. [This] provides a greater experience for players and is an entirely background process for the player. They don’t need to await anything to put in before playing the sport. The sport will launch once the disk have been installed the drive.”

[Source: PlayStation Official Magazine – UK via CVG]