Zatoichi's Cane
Member
for fucks sake how can this be 49GB and look like it does????? KZ blows away this thing in visuals and its in the 30s if I'm not mistaken.
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COD: Ghosts PS4 case jacket leaked; 49GB install
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I really hope Sony has some sort of auto-deleting of old games, because these hard drives aren't going to last long at all, and I don't want to have to delete games constantly.
But also, jesus, what in the world have they filled up 49GB with? because it sure doesn't look like a game past any of the previous ones that were far far smaller.
But also, jesus, what in the world have they filled up 49GB with? because it sure doesn't look like a game past any of the previous ones that were far far smaller.
Orochinagis
Member
Time to look for a 1T laptop HDD before buying the console, freaking nice
ps3 used 2.5 inch drives, too
dragonbane
Member
You guys better get ready for it. Every game you play will be fully installed after a while and probably take up between 20-50 GB. And I doubt the console automatically deletes it.
stump sock
Member
I have like 200 pc games of varying sizes installed on a 500gb hard drive without even coming close to filling it up. Something isn't right with this install size.
While we know games will do silent installs (I think if the dev chooses to do an install prior to first booting up the game, they still could, unless the silent install is a design mandate by Sony), we don't know if the installs will be resident. The game will surely require at least 50GB to work, as one can possibly fill the PS4 Harddisk with videos and photos etc.
So, I'm not sure if there's knowledge on how installed game data is handled, don't remember any such information. The free harddisk portion could well be the portion that is not occupied by the user data, so that the silent install data could be overwritten if there's not enough space for that.
All speculation, but with the default silent installs, the user not having to do installed data management is much more foolproof than it being manually handled by the users, with an HD that's "only" 500GB.
DR2K
Banned
720p is still an achievement for this series.
JrBaconCheeseburger
Member
500GB is not enough anymore. Fuck!!!!
NBA2K and this shit = Bye Bye 100 GB
NBA2K and this shit = Bye Bye 100 GB
Doggie companions earn kid friendliness points!
I wonder if the listed resolutions at the back means it actually runs at that resolution or at least a >720p one, or if that's the same as the resolutions listed on the back of 360 games and is pretty much useless garbage because the system will always upscale to that anyway. Man I hated Microsoft doing that shit, it may look nice but when you're supposed to be listing FEATURES you shouldn't count something the system does innately.
AstroNut325
Member
I was hoping Sony would provide the extra inch! That's what I was expecting!
Edit:
LOL!
Pristine_Condition
Member
Emotionally bonding with Call of Doggy takes them GBs, yo.
IcyRhythms
Member
Again, my guess is that 40-50% of that is audio uncompressed(or just about any other form you could think of)
There seem to be relatively few 2 TB 2.5-inch drives, at least right now. Newegg only showed me two Western Digital Green drives, and both of those were 15 millimeters tall. (I think that's OK for the PS4, but PS3s weren't able to accommodate HDDs that tall.)
Speedy Blue Dude
Banned
Wow... if it's the same for Xbox One, your 500GB harddrive (for both) will be filled in about 9 games. :|
So I guess this is virtually confirmation that the dog survives after all.
Daffy Duck
Member
What the hell......
OriginalThinking
Member
Pffft. 500mb at least. And let's not even talk about the doggy's.
Red Chocobo
Banned
At least you can upgrade the HDD I guess.
The Xbone on the other hand.... Start collecting desktop HDDs.
The Xbone on the other hand.... Start collecting desktop HDDs.
Coldnoodle
Member
Wii-U master race.
famousmortimer
Banned
Correct.
You aren't saving space going physical on either system. Atleast not yet. Maybe eventually they will stream off of disc but everything I've heard thus far are full installs. The xbox, of course, was always like that because the system was designed around disc installs and then not even needing the disc (now you need the disc in to see that you still own it but it's still going to be installing the game).
And yes, this is why both companies released play while you download /install. Not because they were being nice but because you would be waiting forever with every game you bought if it didn't exist.
lucius
Member
So there no option to just play off disc and not install right?
That was my understanding since the game auto installs in background as you play the disc or was Cerny misquoted and was taking about just digital games, because in the video interview it seemed like he was talking about disc games that do auto install while you play.
Edit: ok nevermind just answered above^^^
That was my understanding since the game auto installs in background as you play the disc or was Cerny misquoted and was taking about just digital games, because in the video interview it seemed like he was talking about disc games that do auto install while you play.
Edit: ok nevermind just answered above^^^
Shit piles are bigger than diamonds.
Space Runaway
Member
Yikes. So are we in for 10-15gig cod demos?
Dead Prince
Banned
49GB? must be padding the disc or something.
dragonbane
Member
Yes. I guess you will probably have to delete a game pretty soon after you are done with it.
There's only two reasons for games to be that big: Uncompressed prerendered cutscenes or redundant data for faster loading. Which should not be needed because of HDD installs but might be necessary for those play while downloading features. But no game for the next decade is gonna need 50 GB of unique content.
Who cares? Just remove the install data from time to time, it's not like you'd have to wait for the install if you ever decide to play the game again.
AHA-Lambda
Member
What the fuck?!
criesofthepast
Member
Well at least the pirates will be staying away from next gen lol Torrenting a 50gb file from a bunch of leechers at 5kbs. Enjoy that.
Mass Effect
Member
Those that will stick with the base HDD and play a decent amount of games are going to be screwed. They will constantly be having to delete and install stuff.
Yeah, same. The only other game I can think of from this gen that's large is Rage. Base game is 23 GB.
Can't imagine what BF4 + all DLC will be.
mangochutney
Member
All data is installed to the hard drive on next-gen consoles.
Additionally, for COD they are authoring new assets at 'cinema level' resolution. They're then bringing them down to whatever the platform can handle.
Previously they brought them all down to a baseline level.
That is likely why it is of a comparable size to PC, and will be interesting to see how Xbox One fairs.
http://www.develop-online.net/analysis/infinity-ward-reborn/0117626
alternatively
maybe sony sets aside 50gb of space on the drive
and whatever disc based game you put in the drive gets silently installed into there, wiping out the old install
Spotless Mind
Member
If these kinds of sizes are the norm... i'm so screwed. My connection takes over 24 hours to download 10GB size games off PSN sometimes.
Man, this is some shit. My PS3 HDD is primarily used up with just PSN games and music, and it is 500 gigs.
How are we supposed to keep PSN games on our PS4, if 10 retail games eat the entire thing up? Gah.