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Vodacixi on 05 October 2015
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Wonktonodi said:
Vodacixi said:

Ok, a few weeks ago I bought a PS4. And while I'm really enjoying everything it has to offer, there's one thing that really pisses me off: even if your games are physical copies, you still have to install the entire game in the console's hard drive mandatorily. Now, it wouldn't bother me if you had an incredibly big hard drive. Buy while 500 GB (now there's a 1TB model, ok) sounds like a lot, at the moment of truth you'll not even realize and you'll have fill the disk completley. So, 500 GB is close to nothing.

And when that happened to me yesterday, I could do nothing but remember how much critized Nintendo was because of its hard drive size. The thing is that even if 32 GB is total crap if you go for digital games, at least you can play as many physical games as you want, without having to worry about it. And at least you can use any external hard drive on the Wii U (even a flashdrive), while PS4 needs an specific one, open the console, etc...  So, the situation is, in fact, better in Wii U that it is in PS4, or at the very least, is exactly as bad in both platforms for one reason to another. But, for some reason, while PS4 wasn't that much criticized about this situation, Nintendo got a lot of of hate because of it. My question is... why so many hate for one and so little for the other if, in the end, the situation is not very different between them?

And I know I could just remove the data of the games I already finished, but that's not the point.

I'm confused by your first paragraph. Why does the time you realize your HD is full mean that it's close to nothing? most people it would take them years to fill that all. That hardly makes it quilify as nothing. Otherwise. 1 TB is only twice nonthing. 2TB 4 times nothing. Is it a little small? Yeah, but once again most people won't need bigger for years. You can easily replace it with a larger one deleting and installing games on the system is really fast.

There was also an 8 GB wii u. That added quite a bit to the reasons the wii u is thought of to have low space especially since that has only 3 GB of useable space. The next even with 32 GB in the system name you only have about 25GB that you can use. That would be all the save data for all the players and and DLC games or any digital games. It really is a small amount. Many people could be fine with this depending on gaming habbits but I imagine many more will be using external storage. While you can you use thumbdrives. Nintendo themselvse don't recomend this. They recomend ones with extrenal power supplies. They also don't recomend solid state drives. http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1474/~/wii-u-internal-storage-space-information.

There are many games on this list that would take up over half of your default hard disk space (as long as you bough the 32, the 8 has a ton of games that would require an external hard drive.It's from April so I"m sure there are more big ones since.

On this even older ps4 list. There is room for every single game and ap listed with 12 gigs to spare.  http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Actual_Hard_Drive_Space I doubt anyone would want all those games and unless someone was trying to get all the biggest games with all the DLC most people could easily fit over 20 games. No console has ever had a tie ratio even near that, so the console is fine for the masses as is without any more space, while the Wii U could very easily run out of default storage well before then.


I love how people just read the OP, ignore the rest of the thread and trIes to argue things that have already been discussed. I'm done with this thread loooong ago xD