Nuvendil said:
Conina said:
You can buy an external 1 TB or 2 TB USB-HDD for ~50 bucks (and sell it for 20 - 30 bucks a few years later when you are done with PS4 gaming... or use that external drive with another device... or gift it to friends or family members in need of an external drive; the value loss is negliglible).
If you can afford PS4 games, an external drive should also be affordable.
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First off, that's a stupidly limp excuse. The moment installs became mandatory, 1 TB should have been mandatory. It's not like the PS4 and Xbone have fast, high end hard drives.
Second, up until very recently external drives weren't even an option for the PS4.
Bottom line, I shouldn't have to buy a third party peripheral that I have to add to the pile of plastic under my TV just to alleviate an annoyance that would not exist if devs just got their crap together.
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Why should 1 TB have been mandatory? Some users need more space, others need less space. Why should casual PS4 gamers with only a handful of games be forced to pay more than necessary for a bigger HDD than they need? Just because others need more than 500 GB?
The current tie ratio of PS4 is currently less than 7 games. Don't think that the capacity needs of people in this or other gaming forums mirror the capacity needs of the average PS4 buyer/player.
And if you draw the arbitrary line at 1 TB... why shouldn't 1.5 or 2 TB or 3 TB or 4 TB have been mandatory?
Second, you had the option to replace the internal PS4 HDD from day 1... without warranty loss. Now it is even more convenient with support of external drives. Of course it would have been nice, if Sony already had offered SKUs with different capacities right from the start... but why should game developers care about that? All their concern is to fit the game on a 50 GB blu-ray disc.
Sony doesn't profit from selling PS4s with "too less HDD capacity", they don't get a cut when you buy an additional HDD (internal or external). Microsoft doesn't profit from selling XBOs with "too less HDD capacity", they don't get a cut when you buy an additional external HDD (they profited hugely in the early 360-years with propriary HDDs). Nintendo doesn't profit from selling Switches with "too less flash memory", they don't get a cut when you buy an additional microSD-card. Third parties don't profit from that either (as far as I know). There ain't a conspiracy to sell less capacity than needed by the average user of these devices.