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[darkside31337]

So what is the cheapest 1.5 TB laptop drive on the market right now?

 

[DidntKnowJack]

So hows that digital future working out for everyone?

edit: Duh (on my part), you guys are right. This will affect everyone because of the mandatory installs.

 

[Kacho]

Unbelievable lol

 

[stonesak]

Yeah, hasn't it been confirmed that both PS4 and XB1 games will fully install all games onto the hard drive?

 

[feint_ruled]

I know people don't like to invoke it, but this shit is just 'lazy developers' material prime. They haven't figured out those blu-ray discs and streaming yet? For a cross-gen title?

Or maybe just pressed for time devs? They must be crunching like hell with so many platforms to support.

Seeing as this is a euro edition, possibly this is Multi-5 (i.e. audio for 5 languages?)

 

[Data West]

Guys, you're going to be installing most everything on both systems.

That still doesn't explain the size compared to their PC counterparts.

 

[AstroNut325]

49GB? WHAT? Someone tell me I can slap a 3.5" 3TB hard drive in the PS4. It's going to be needed!

 

[Lakitu]

Wow.. I hope that it's only a special case with this one. I don't want my hard-drive to be full after 9 or 10 games.

 

[Kouriozan]

That's...a lot.
At this rate 1TB won't be enough for the entire gen :lol

 

[Amir0x]

man if any system really did go all digital this gen, this shit would have been a disaster. 50Gig installs? The internet in most parts of America is not ready.

 

[Asd202]

500gb will be far too low for this gen that's certain.

man if any system really did go all digital this gen, this shit would have been a disaster. 50Gig installs? The internet in most parts of America is not ready.

Yeah WTF MS was thinking.

 

[RibbedHero]

Got my 1TB SSHD ready for day one! ... Maybe not for this game though.

Will the PS4 be capable on managing TRIM on an SSHD or is it entirely FW based?

 

[BadTaste]

Fuck. Some link me a good HDD.

http://www.ebuyer.com/582446-toshiba-1tb-solid-state-hybrid-drive-mq01abd100h

 

[famousmortimer]

Is there a PC game that needs that much GB?

And after seeing the PS4 footage on IGN, I'm actually interested to see what those 49GB do - because it looked like a jaggy PS3 game in that specific video

Each jaggy is 5gb. Next gen jaggies ain't nothin' to be fucked with.

 

[stump sock]

Uncompressed audio and video? I'm guessing most games this gen will have that. Which will take up a ton of space.

why would anybody do that? it makes no sense from a practicality or performance standpoint. 1080p blurays are compressed video.

 

[DR2K]

You wanted 1080p, you got it.

 

[Pop]

720p, 1080i, 1080p- that looks very familiar

Glad games install while we play.

 

[bidguy]

pegi 16 lol
no way im getting this watered down garbage

 

[The_Monk]

Guys, you're going to be installing most everything on both systems.

Then for people worried about going digital because of HDD space makes no sense to go physical correct fellow GAFfer? Because the Physical edition will require the same amount of space as the digital version.

Guess I'll be more selective this gen and will be even more digital only with some games that I will play for longer time during the upcoming months.

 

[SniperHunter]

Bull shit sizes. I guess to discourage piracy

 

[Colonel Nasty]

I'm buying eight X1 games..... Ill be cleaning the fridge by Jan

 

[UNCMark]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we can play the game while it installs, right? If so, meh, no biggie. Kinda sucks that Sony and MS are only putting 500gig drives in these consoles though.

 

[Terbinator]

Is there a PC game that needs that much GB?

BF4 + DLC probably. Think my BF3 installation is now at ~35GB.

 

[IcyRhythms]

All dat DTS/uncompressed sound for 5.1 and 7.1 systems

 

[VanWinkle]

Wait, so do the installation files STAY on the PS4 hard drive? That would be insane. Basically it would be dumb to buy retail. One of the biggest reasons I'm going physical is because I don't have to worry about filling up hundreds of gigs just from a few games.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Uncompressed audio and video? I'm guessing most games this gen will have that. Which will take up a ton of space.

Are we going to see a ton of hard drive failures with so much data being written and read off these drives?

No more than the average laptop/desktop.

 

[VariantX]

Might be uncompressed audio or video bloating the game's size. Kind of weird games are suddenly massive now. Makes me far less inclined to want to buy digitally though.

 

[Frumix]

49GB? WHAT? Someone tell me I can slap a 3.5" 3TB hard drive in the PS4. It's going to be needed!

3.5 won't fit in unless you let it lie outside on separate power, guerrilla style

 

[Iacobellis]

Are disc-based installs a requirement like they are on the XB1?

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

so...what size hard drive will fit in a ps4? 12.5 right?

May have to shop for one if this is the sort of installs we can look forward to this gen.

 

[BruiserBear]

My mind if full of fuck trying to comprehend how this game could take up 49 gigs. Are they just refusing to compress anything even a little bit?

 

[Sum-Mischief]

Looks like I will need to slap that 1.5 TB in on day one after all . Well on day four, or five ,but still wow !

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I feel like the 500gb standard drives this gen are kinda the equivalent of the useless 20gb drives from last gen.

There's gonna be so many damn 50gb installs

 

[Tsundere]

Will the PS4 be capable on managing TRIM on an SSHD or is it entirely FW based?

Firmware.

 

[Bamihap]

49GB rom divided by 8GB ram equal 6.1 hours or gameplay. Seems about right.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

You wanted 1080p, you got it.

Until XBO version is confirmed the same size.

 

[velociraptor]

What is the best 2TB laptop drive to buy? I'm going to have to buy one now.

2TB should be enough though. I don't tend to own too many games at one time (I buy and I sell). I survived an entire gen with a measly 120GB.

 

[Nibel]

Each jaggy is 5gb. Next gen jaggies ain't nothin' to be fucked with.

:lol you know what Morty, you're probably right with that assumption - it's seems like lazy engineering

BF4 + DLC probably. Think my BF3 installation is now at ~35GB.

Interesting - which asks the question: how big is the BF4 install going to be on PS4?

 

[Talamius]

man if any system really did go all digital this gen, this shit would have been a disaster. 50Gig installs? The internet in most parts of America is not ready.

I've got 30 down / 5 up (which isn't the fastest obviously but well above average in the US) and I'm cringing at the thought of downloading a ton of 50GB titles.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

Is that mostly from video and audio? What the hell else could possibly fill up 49 GB? Uncompressed textures?

 

[criesofthepast]

why would anybody do that? it makes no sense from a practicality or performance standpoint. 1080p blurays are compressed video.

Oh I didn't know about the video aspect, but I know audio like in MGS4 being uncompressed was a massive change to how much data was being used on the bluray.

I'm not really sure what is taking up 50gb's here cause the game looks like shit.

 

[_woLf]

There is absolutely no excuse for this taking up that much space. HD/next gen/whatever or otherwise -- that's completely unacceptable.

 

[AstroNut325]

3.5 won't fit in unless you let it lie outside on separate power, guerrilla style

WHAT? NOOOOOOOOOOOO! The PS4 is using laptop drives??????

 

[mattp]

i've been hoping sony would go onto detail how game installs work, but so far they havent said anything

they could easily deal with the hd storage issue by having game installs go into a certain folder or whatever, and then when you run games on disc, if there's not enough space for them to install fully it just deletes the oldest game install in the game folder automatically

 

[Masked_Ninja]

Is that a vita remote play icon?

 

[dcx4610]

These PS4 games are almost double the biggest PC game installs. It's interesting to say the least.

 

[GalacticMouse]

Dude, seriously? I really don't feel like filling my hard drive in the first four months with installs for DISC-BASED GAMES.

Ugh.

 

[Argyle]

I imagine it's just lazy compression to shave a few seconds off load times. Bet you each FMV is there 5 times over with 5 different languages as the sound.

I doubt that, because games are played from the hard drive, not the optical disc.

i've been hoping sony would go onto detail how game installs work, but so far they havent said anything

they could easily deal with the hd storage issue by having game installs go into a certain folder or whatever, and then when you run games on disc, if there's not enough space for them to install fully it just deletes the oldest game install in the game folder automatically

It shouldn't be a big deal to delete older installs, as the same tech that allows the game to play when partially downloaded will allow you to play the game before it's fully installed from disc. No idea if they will have an automatic system for this, though.

 

[CambriaRising]

You wanted 1080p, you got it.

I know you are joking, but I feel the need to say "No." anyway.

 

[Frumix]

WHAT? NOOOOOOOOOOOO! The PS4 is using laptop drives??????

Uh, yes, yes of course it does. What did you expect?