Quantum Break over 120GB with episode packs...

[Cloudman]

Conina said:

Cloudman said:

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.

"500 GB was fin during gen 7"? You know that the PS3 started with 20 - 80 GB and the Xbox 360 started with 0 - 20 GB instead of 500 GB, don't you?

So how much HDD space would you have put in the PS4 or XBO at launch in 2013 if you had to decide for Sony and Microsoft? How much flash memory would you have put in the Wii U at launch in 2012? How much of the additional costs would you have added to the price? How much of the additional costs would you have reduced from your profits?

For which price would you have offered the PS4 with your "one size fits all" capacity? For which price would you have offered the Xbox One Kinect with your "one size fits all" capacity? For which price would you have offered the WiiU with your "one size fits all" capacity?

I didn't know that actually. I never owned a 360, and got a PS3 much later with a 500 GB space. That's quite funny and interesting it started that way.

I think the gradual growth in sizes of the of space in these consoles reflect the growth in sizes of games and eventual digital only route. There likely was no simple answer as for the best amount of space to put into these consoles just because companies didn't know how things would turn out with games and sizes, and will change things accordingly. This is probably why the PS4 and XBO started with 500 GB because that seemed enough; however, that is starting to change, which is shown with these new 1tb models. It's sort of a mix of the changes in games and the routes companies want to take with their consoles.

The only one who really messed up was Nintendo. The 16/32 GB models were really stupid moves, haha.