They're not ps5 games though :p

Why is NBA 150 GB? CoD, maybe it has a lot of maps with pre-baked lighting. But NBA? Isn't that baseball? Aren't those stadiums all the same? Oh sorry, basketball, must be the bigger ball size, more polygons.

Sad to see that quite a few 3rd parties don't take advantage of the Series S when it comes to game install sizes.

Also while CoD is horrible, it at least has much more reason to be that big comparing to fucking NBA 2k21.

To some degree the whole SSD is a paradox. On one hand it reduces loading from 60 seconds to a few seconds, saving time... on the other hand it has limited storage so gamers have to constantly spend 10-15 minutes installing games.

Only those with adhd... You could also finish one game, then play the next. Why would you play more than 5 games at the same time! Plus think of all the extra time you save with less scrolling through the installed games list ;)

Or those with a family.  I have a wife and kids who will want a few games installed.  This is especially important with couch coop games (e.g. sackboy), given as a family we may want to pickup and play randomly on a Friday night.  I would also like to keep Monster Hunter and Souls games installed, because again I randomly pickup and play online.  For me the storage game is a problem.  

Not as bad as i thought tbh. The worst offenders are games i'm not even interested in.

Valid point, I have the same problem. I bought a ps4 pro so my kids could keep their games on the base ps4. Fortnite, Ark, Skylanders, Minecraft, GTA and the base ps4 is already pretty full. I like to keep GT Sport installed, 105 GB, needs that amount again to patch. I really hope Sony fixed that with the ps5 so you don't need as much or more space free for a game for a simple 500 MB patch. (Plus it took 35 minutes to copy the game to install a 500 MB patch)

So yep, I'll have the same problem again with PS5 :( I think I still rather buy a second console instead of adding an expensive SSD or waiting 10-15 minutes to move stuff back and forth to an external HDD. Kinda sucks it's so big.

In USA/Europe maybe

In Brazil I assure you it's closer to 4 hours 

The ideal solution for me would b a hybrid SDD-HDD solution you can swap before using the gameHDD is not as expensive as SSD (I can buy 8TB HDD for less than 2 TB SSD), I wouldn't my mind to let my catalog installed in a HDD and swap to a SSD before playing. It would take some minutes, but not nearly as much as download the whole game once again

You can already do that on Series X and PS5, simply connect an external HDD through USB. However on PS5 you can't copy ps5 games to an external HDD yet, they're working on that. You can swap out BC games to an external HDD.

Some minutes, depends on the drive. Copying GT Sport took 35 minutes on ps4 pro :/