Conina said:
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. |
I drew the line because 1 TB was cheap when these launched. The PS4 and Xbone have 5400 RPM hard drives. A 1TB 5400 RPM Hard Drive was not an expensive thing then, they could have added it. They just cheaped out. Which, btw, is the reason these games are bloated to high heaven: being cheap. They could spend the extra time to get their games to a size that would help with space and loading times, they just don't want to spend the money on the time. Which, incidentally, is also not a significant ammount. Which is why I say they cheaped out. Being fiscally conscious is one thing, being cheap is another. And I take issue with the latter.
And with Nintendo, I'm not happy about the 32 GB HOWEVER 1) that's a more expensive type of memory, the costs of which I am not as familiar with and 2) installations aren't mandatory. If you choose to, you can buy every game physically that comes with that option and that 32 GB will go a good ways. With the PS4, there's no remedy whatsoever to the issue of space other than going out to buy a third party item.
Oh and it's not a conspiracy, it's just plain cheapskate behavior.
