| Cloudman said: My point isn't about the ease of doing it. It's about having to make the extra purchase for space. Consoles should have enough space so that buying extra space isn't necessary. Considering you said an external would be 80-100 dollars, that is not an extra investment I want to make. |
And who decides how much space is "enough"? Some people need more space than others because they buy/play more games or because they want every bought game ready to go, some need less space because they delete the games from the HDD after they finished them. The savegames and achievements/trophies don't get deleted and a reinstallation from Blu-ray only takes a few minutes and can be done in the background while playing another (digital) game. With a fast internet connection even a reinstallation by download is bearable and can be done in the background while playing another game (retail or digital).
If Sony and Microsoft had launched the PS4 and XBO with 2 TB HDDs instead of 0.5 TB, the additional costs would have been priced in, probably $499/$599 instead of $399/$499. That would have hurt their sales and the increased comfort of many gamers in the first 1 - 2 years of their purchase would have been minimal.
