Quantum Break over 120GB with episode packs...

[Cloudman]

Conina said:

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.

The growing sizes of games is the deciding factor. Games are getting bigger, and spaces like 500GB is just not going to cut it anymore. Imagine getting the complete package of this game with a 500 GB. It'd already take more than a 1/5th of your console. You'd only be able to hold a couple of games before you run out of space and need to buy extra.

Sure, you can keep uninstalling and reinstalling games, but who wants to do that? It'd just be easier to have a bigger sized console so reinstalling is not necessary. Seeing as you need an external hard drive, it clearly isn't enough. Even Sony and MS are recognizing this as they are beginning to release 1TB models of their consoles, and from the looks of it, they're not all that expensive. 500 GB was fin during gen 7 and was fine at the start of gen 8, but with these big games being 30 to 40 GBs, 500GB is just not cutting it anymore.