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[Zathalus]

The idea that next-gen games would be smaller was always a bit suspect to me, sure you free up space by not having to duplicate assets, but then you loose space because the new game assets are going to be higher resolution due to the increase of RAM from 5 GB useable to 14 GB useable.

 

[MasterCornholio]

I'm probably going to buy a massive external just for storing game data. I really would hate to sit through downloading hundreds of GBs of data.

 

[Moses85]

Yippee, a thread to create problems, which aren't problems.

 

[kuncol02]

Data caps. They're a bitch.

What are that "data caps" you are talking about? There is not such thing in civilized world.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

What are that "data caps" you are talking about? There is not such thing in civilized world.

Not from flyover country, are you?

 

[kuncol02]

Not from flyover country, are you?

I have no idea what "flyover country" is, so probably not. I live in civilized country where internet is fast, unlimited and cost 15$. Hint. It's in Europe.

 

[synce]

4K textures should be optional, could store 4 times more games. It'snuts that they had the option of letting you store 20 "AAA" games, or 5 "AAA" games with slightly sharper textures that need a side by side to notice, and they chose the latter.

 

[genesisblock]

Was looking through the Sony Direct site to preorder and noticed the install sizes at the bottom of some of the game's pages:

• Spiderman: MM-50GB minimum
• Spiderman: MM Ultimate Edition-105GB minimum
• Demon's Souls: 66GB minimum

I know there's been a lot said about how quickly these SSD's will fill up, and that 105GB for Spiderman is making me nervous considering many assets should be shared between MM and the original game. Hopefully there will be an automatic or easy way to manage installs between the internal and external drives.

Looking forward to that 200GB COD install

So all that thing about SSD is just a bunch of baloney? What happened to removing duplicated data, or is the 4k data so massive this is the best they can compress out of them?

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Install game, play game, beat game, uninstall game what's the problem?

For me there is none. Got the disk drive version.

 

[Elysion]

How big is Spiderman on PS4? 50GB for MM isn't that bad.

 

[Sethbacca]

I hope there's some kind of automated utility that removes duplicate assets in legacy games so that those can be smaller.

 

[sackings]

ill be picking up an external 4-8tb. Should be pretty painless to move games back and forth.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

Silly question but can i get well external storage? For the ps5 and hotswap to ssd and back etc ?

Nope, this is the benefit of MSs approach on this, the standard nvme drive won't be hot swappable (unless they figured something out, I think this is unlikely).

The best we can hope for is that the new drive could sit alongside the built-in memory (I have seen nothing pointing in that direction, but given the apparent bespoke nature of Sony's solution I could see it happen).

Depending how they use the external drive it could end up not being such a big deal.

 

[diffusionx]

The idea that next-gen games would be smaller was always a bit suspect to me, sure you free up space by not having to duplicate assets, but then you loose space because the new game assets are going to be higher resolution due to the increase of RAM from 5 GB useable to 14 GB useable.

The smaller size because of duplicating asset thing never made any sense, it was people hanging onto every word from Cerny and blowing things out of proportion. Spiderman on my PS4 right now takes up 66GB space, looks like PS5 version will be exactly the same, and this is the title Cerny used to talk about the duplicated assets!