With the announcement of Xbox’s proprietary SSD that will cost Xbox players upwards of $219 USD, The conversation has once again come to the surface about the lack of storage within these new consoles. With the Xbox Series X hosting a 1TB SSD, the PlayStation 5 a slightly smaller 825GB SSD. The all-digital Xbox Series S brings up the rear with the smallest SSD at 512GB. Xbox Series S owners will have to learn to be wizards at organizing their games, as many games like Call of Duty: Warzone has ballooned past 100GBs.
Memory space management is something all next-generation console owners are going to have to be good at. Unless, of course, they want to shell out the cash for a brand new SSD. Ever wonder how fast you could fill up a PlayStation 5 SSD? Well, don’t worry, someone on the internet has already figured that out for you.
PlayStation 5 SSD Space?
A Reddit user named u/darealdsisaac compiled a list that showed you just how fast you could fill up your PlayStation 5 SSD. As some might remember, during the last PlayStation 5 event, the company revealed the PlayStation Plus Collection. This collection contains some of the best PlayStation 4 games that will be playable on PlayStation 5. Games like God of War, Days Gone, and many more heavy hitters fill this list. What this Reddit user found out was how much space this would entire collection takes up on PlayStation 5.
The collection contains a total of 18 games that all total up a download of 794.28GB, which leaves around 30GB for Astro’s Playroom and the system software to run. Here is the break down of each game, with the latest patches and updates accounted for.
God Of War – 45GB
Monster Hunter: World – 49GB
Final Fantasy XV – 100GB
Fallout 4 – 26.2GB
Mortal Kombat X – 33.5GB
Uncharted 4 – 63GB
Ratchet and Clank – 26.4GB
Days Gone – 38GB
Until Dawn – 46GB
Detroit: Become Human – 41.4GB
Battlefield 1 – 110GB
Infamous Second Son – 24GB
Batman: Arkham Knight – 58GB
The Last Guardian – 15GB
The Last Of Us Remastered – 47GB
Persona 5 – 19.51GB
Resident Evil 7 – 20.7GB
Bloodborne – 32.75GB
Total – 794.96GB
The Reality of Next Generation
Now it is insanely unlikely anyone will sit down and install all of these games from the PlayStation Plus Collection at the same time. This does a fantastic job of highlighting just how little space both next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles have in the long run. With many of us having upgraded to external hard drives already at this point in the generation. I have three 1TB drives for my Xbox One X alone.
It is troubling that the price point for memory expansion will be high for a relatively long time. There are gamers out there that may not have the option of downloading and uninstalling big games regularly, due to data caps. It’s just another hurdle that will come with next-generation technology, unfortunately. Fingers crossed that the price of these memory expansions decreases soon.
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