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[NeonGhost]

You'll have too many of them and you won't be able to delete them.
One of the biggest issues with Death Stranding on the PS4 was the save files. The game
constantly makes save files and it does not overwrite any of them, so instead of deleting old
saves and making new ones, it will keep all the saves until you can have over 50 save files that
takes 1GB just for one game.

The issue wasn't really a major problem on the PS4 because you could just go into the save
data folder and choose individual files to delete. This isn't possible on the PS5. On the PS5, you
can't delete individual save files of a game. So if you choose to delete a PS5 game save file, it'll
delete everything in the folder.

Unless they patch the game so that you can manage and delete save files in the game itself,
prepare to have multiple undeletable saves that can really balloon your save data storage both
on your PS5 and the PS Cloud online storage, especially if you like making manual saves.
I iust started a new game, only a couple hours in and my save data for Death Stranding is
already taking up 860mb

 

[GreatnessRD]

You should contact Sony and let them know immediately!

 

[ManaByte]

Well now we can install an additional SSD, so the console storage isn't a huge scare. Clogging up your cloud storage though could be a problem.

 

[NeonGhost]

You should contact Sony and let them know immediately!

Sorry for bringing this issue to everyone here and hoping to get more voices heard so they can get this fixed

 

[GreatnessRD]

Sorry for bringing this issue to everyone here and hoping to get more voices heard so they can get this fixed

I'm not understanding what you're getting at. I just said you should contact Sony and let them know. They have 1-800 numbers, social media, etc. What's the problem

 

[tommib]

Yeap, mine’s already at 600 mb.

 

[ManaByte]

Yeap, mine’s already at 600 mb.

Holy shit.

Is that after playing or is that just from transferring your save? I transferred my save and that's it last night. I should check it later.

 

[NeonGhost]

Holy shit.

Is that after playing or is that just from transferring your save? I transferred my save and that's it last night. I should check it later.

Mine is larger and I didnt do any file transfer

 

[tommib]

Holy shit.

Is that after playing or is that just from transferring your save? I transferred my save and that's it last night. I should check it later.

After transfer. No idea how much it was before. I was at 30% trophies on PS4 if that helps.

 

[nowhat]

Holy shit.

Is that after playing or is that just from transferring your save? I transferred my save and that's it last night. I should check it later.

I got Driveclub when it (finally, in a very limited form) arrived on PS+. Played honestly like a couple of races, wasn't really my thing. The save was 400+ MB, that's just insane.

 

[TGO]

 

[NeonGhost]

That’s only available for ps4 games and can’t for ps5 games

 

[TGO]

That’s only available for ps4 games and can’t for ps5 games

A bit strange to have the option for one and not the other in the same OS

 

[SlimySnake]

Damn. i was wondering why my cloud save was at 880 MB on the PS4.

 

[Aenima]

Only works for PS4 games. For some reason native PS5 games save files cant be individual selected. For example if a game has 10 manual save files stored, on PS4 you can select and delete 1 by 1, on a native PS5 game you will only see 1 safe file and if you wanted to delete 9 of the manual save files to keep just 1 manual save file to save space, you cant. You either delete it and lose all ur save files for that game or u keep it.

This is something that should be adressed because some games go crazy with the auto save files and by the time u finish ur game you dont really need so many save files taking up space.

The good thing is that the cloud storage is now bigger since you have 100GB for PS4 games and another 100GB for PS5 games since they are stored in separate.

 

[tommib]

Well I'm hoping the game starts to delete old saves. There has to be a cap on the save file size/number of saves, right?

 

[NeonGhost]

Well I'm hoping the game starts to delete old saves. There has to be a cap on the save file size/number of saves, right?

There isn’t the game never Overwrites any old saves and they game has 2 automatic save files types auto save and checkpoints plus everytime You do a manual save it’s a new save while keeping all your old ones

 

[Skyfox]

I've just started this for the first time on PS5 and memory is expensive. This could make the game essentially unplayable. There must be a fix!

 

[lh032]

Yea I saw this concern on Reddit.

I believe this will be an easy fix via updates.

 

[skit_data]

I deleted the autosave file yesterday from save management in system settings (my GF wanted us to play it together and I started playing all by myself) and I did notice it was pretty big. It was around 170mb large and a prompt came up ”do you want to delete all of these files?” which I hadn’t experienced before.

 

[T-Cake]

Good god. So not only can you not copy PS5 save games to USB, you cannot delete individual save files. What are Sony playing at? Both were very useful features on PS4.

 

[alabtrosMyster]

A bit strange to have the option for one and not the other in the same OS

The PS5 OS has no folders, so nothing like this surprises me at this point.

I would have preferred it if they added the PS5 libraries in the backend of the PS4 OS and shipped out with a new skin... That would have prevented regressions like these, I mean even the store is strange now.

 

[FUBARx89]

Well now we can install an additional SSD, so the console storage isn't a huge scare. Clogging up your cloud storage though could be a problem.

Here's something some people may not know about cloud storage on PSN, even though you have 100GB or whatever, you actually have a file limit of 1000 files.

I hit it a few week back

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Neff]

Just one more reason to hate autosaves

 

[Withnail]

A bit strange to have the option for one and not the other in the same OS

PS5 saves are a new format, probably because the PS4 save format was completely compromised by hackers.

Same reason PS5 games couldn't read PS4 save files until Sony updated the SDK with a translation library.

Hopefully the same save management utilities will come to the PS5 but it's not a copy and paste job from what they had before.

 

[rofif]

I don't ever use save transfer options... I play the game to replay it. Achievements and stuff carry over anyway.

 

[Maximus D. Meridius]

I don't ever use save transfer options... I play the game to replay it. Achievements and stuff carry over anyway.

this OP isn't about save transfers its about the way the game saves in general.

 

[NeonGhost]

I don't ever use save transfer options... I play the game to replay it. Achievements and stuff carry over anyway.

Did you even read the post ?

 

[rofif]

Did you even read the post ?

No
edit: yes, this sucks