500 GB HDD Is a Big Problem for Xbox & PlayStation

Do you need to expand your storage beyond 500GB?

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The last few generations I saved a ton of money by reselling games on ebay. You were able to capture a lot more money back versus trading them in to retail stores. All it took was a box of envelopes that fit a DVD case and an occasional trip to the post office...which is a couple blocks walk from my office so I did it at lunch. I kept a chart of the games I bought and sold and I think I averaged a little over $10 per game once everything was said and done.

When they announced a lot of the anti-used game policies for this generation I nearly flipped my s***. I was pissed because it would mean I would get to play a lot less games. When they changed the policy I still swore I would buy only disc copies of games so I could resell them. Flash forward to now and I haven't purchased a single game on disc. The wife was pissed when I bought the system so not having boxes arriving at the house is a good thing...lol...even though I've gone to digital, for the most part I'm buying games on sale for cheap.....the only game I've paid full retail for at this point is FIFA 15.....and I've easily gotten my $60 worth out of that game already. I initially paid $60 for Halo MCC but I returned it for a refund and rebought it today for $35.
 
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PS4 doesn't really matter to me in regards to digital/physical. Xbox though I plan on going full digital unless for some reason physical version is better. Unfortunately that means I miss out on Best Buy Unlocked discount of 20% off games. I also have Destiny on disc because it was $40 at the time, and of course it is now the same price digitally.
 
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The last few generations I saved a ton of money by reselling games on ebay. You were able to capture a lot more money back versus trading them in to retail stores. All it took was a box of envelopes that fit a DVD case and an occasional trip to the post office...which is a couple blocks walk from my office so I did it at lunch. I kept a chart of the games I bought and sold and I think I averaged a little over $10 per game once everything was said and done.

When they announced a lot of the anti-used game policies for this generation I nearly flipped my s***. I was pissed because it would mean I would get to play a lot less games. When they changed the policy I still swore I would buy only disc copies of games so I could resell them. Flash forward to now and I haven't purchased a single game on disc. The wife was pissed when I bought the system so not having boxes arriving at the house is a good thing...lol...even though I've gone to digital, for the most part I'm buying games on sale for cheap.....the only game I've paid full retail for at this point is FIFA 15.....and I've easily gotten my $60 worth out of that game already. I initially paid $60 for Halo MCC but I returned it for a refund and rebought it today for $35.
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That's the progression people will go through. DD prices are getting much better. DD off Live a few years ago was literally a joke. Now there are some good deals and they will get better. The gap between selling physical back and just buying digital is shrinking and will keep doing so.
 
Yeah, most of the games I've bought digitally were very cheap.

UFC was like $13
Halo MCC $35
Sunset Overdrive $35
Tomb Raider was around $20

If you're willing to wait a few months you can definitely get these games for cheap on sale.....still waiting for Forza Horizon 2 to get around that $35 mark.
 
I abused my DVR function taking screenshots, and since the PS4 at one time forcibly created a video clip along side the screenshot, the storage shrunk fast! And we still need a screenshot feature that takes a screenshot every single second for us screenshot enthusiasts. And also, they need to get rid of the screenshot lag. But yeah the storage fills up way too quickly, especially since all games are stored in full on the hard drive.
 
Like many, saw it comin. Bought a 4 TB drive before the box even arrived.
 
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PS4 really could do with a USB storage solution. As much as I applaud them for allowing you to replace the internal drive, having an additional option of plugging in whatever drive you want and adding storage to what's already there would be very worthwhile.

In an ideal world, you would have the ease of hard drive replacement in the PS4 coupled with the ease of USB storage in the Xbox One.

Like the Xbox 360, except without the 32 GB external USB limit, natch.
 
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What you will see further on in this generation, is the move to flash memory in these systems as a 'base' SKU, alongside a more expensive and large hard drive version. This will be about 3 or so years from now when solid state memory at 256 GB + becomes cheaper than the lowest priced hard drive in the market they can use.

The Xbox 360 and eventually PS3 had cheaper models which had the bare minimum internal storage they could provide for the system to function - 4GB and 12GB respectively as of today.

The current gen consoles obviously have minimum system storage requirements that are much higher, 93 GB and 138 GB (props to Kvally) which means you can't have a bare minimum amount of solid state memory currently and price it competitively next to a hard drive model.

Hard drives are a necessary evil that keep console costs high (static material cost - the only change is increased capacity driven by obsolescence of older, smaller capacities as time goes on), but they are still the best bang for your buck for large storage. However, by the time 500 GB hard drives become completely obsolete there may be a solid state option because solid state memory becomes cheaper per gigabyte over time.
 
Eacg system has about 400gb of usable space on the internal drive. After game saves, OS updates, DLC you download, and perhaps some screenshots and video clips you make, most people will probably end up with about 300-350 gb left for game installs. Here's where it gets tricky because that 300+gb space left will be perfectly fine for some and not for others.

Your typical $60 game can be anywhere from 20-50gb of space (excluding patches which can be anywhere from 1-5gb... wasn't Dead Rising 3 something like 10gb!?!?)

Your typical small scale $10 downloadable game may be 2-5gb

300-350gb is fine if you only care about a small group of full budget games at any time (let's say 6-7 games of avg size with a slew of small scale games) as opposed to hoarding a collection.
 
I don't mind buying external HDDs. I've got a 2 TB and it'll be a very long time into this generation before I use that up.
 
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