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Intrinsic on 21 September 2020
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Pemalite said:
Intrinsic said:

Spend like $50+ for 2TB worth of storage that you can use as a backup for games you aren't playing that much as it would b faster getting them from there than from the internet.

My Xbox 360 has 2.5 terabytes of storage... I can't imagine 3 terabytes (1+2) being enough for an entire console generation.
My Xbox One X has 20 Terabytes and is at 70%.

I mean. Don't get me wrong, your approach is the one I will be taking anyway... And I am definitely the exception rather than the rule with my expansive game libraries.

Intrinsic said:

I just feel this I one of those things that only get made into a big deal on forums. I have NEVER met anyone outside of forums complain about how much space they have left in their console. And for those at do, there area ton of options.

Definitely going to be more common in enthusiast circles (I.E. Gaming forums) that tend to hoard video games more often.

I understand that. I totally do, but I also expect that those same enthusiasts would know more than any other why things are like that. How much would either o these next-gen consoles cost if they cam with 2TB SSDs? Or would they rather sony and MS totally forwent the SSDs and just put in 2TB HDDs in there? If you recall, back in 2018, I was saying that next get consoles would come with SSDs, that by 2020, they would be able to fit one in there. A lot of people said it wouldn't be a possible cause of the costs, one of the discussed alternatives was to have an embedded SSD cache of around 256GB and then a 2TB HDD. But their solution is more elegant, as that would have games doing a lot more house management than they would have to do now.

SSDs are great tech for next-gen consoles. Gen defining tech. But they don't come cheap. They at least give us options, they aren't forcing us to have to buy some sort of proprietary device just so we can hoard more games. We have the choice of doing some house management or getting cold storage. The alternative is simply that they put in bigger SSDs, and that would simply mean the consoles are more expensive. I ould particularly expect people on forms to get that.

I personally would have no more than 8 games installed on my SSD at any time, anything above 8 and I would move something to cold storage. It would even be better if that action can be done in the background while i go about doing whatever see I am doing on the console.