How many games can a 500 GB PS4 store?

I just bought a PS4 (500 GB). I am curious on how many games (on average), can the console store? I don't plan on playing more than 4-5 games at the same time, so should that be enough?

Installs range from 20-50 for "AAA" titles. You'll probably have ~420GB free or so IIRC, so you should be able to squeeze at least 8-10 big games on. I can definitely see how people run out of space, but personally it hasn't been a problem for me, because I'm never ever playing 10 AAA titles on my console at a time. I'll play a couple at most, and when I finish then I play some new stuff.

Same here

For starters you don´t have 500 GBs, the OS eats around 80, so you have 400 for games since most updates for those 8-10 games will eat up those 20 ish GBs that in theory you have, also take in consideration that downloading games from the store requires twice as much of the game size of free storage space in the HDD for that purpose, for example, if the games is 40 GB in size you´ll need 80 GB, once the game is downloaded and installed the system will "return" you that extra 40 GB it borrowed but if you don´t have it the download won´t occur.

So before you start doing anything my recommendation is to upgrade your HDD for a larger one.

16 Blu Ray Disc based games. I have 20 PS4 physical games. But only 16 are able to be loaded on my PS4. The other game are the monthly PS Plus monthly free rental throw ins. But only a faction of the PSplus offering are able to be loaded on my PS4. I have bought Sound Shapes and Octodad which have no PS4 physical disc option. So I also have them loaded on my PS4. 17 Blu ray games seems to be the limit. If I deleted all of the PS plus freebies and just kept only Octodad and sound Shapes.

I have completely filled up my 500 GB HDD. I even deleted the fabled PT demo. To free up the 1.1 GB but I filled up my HDD.

In contrast the 40 GB PS3 can hold 41 Blu Ray Disc game data installs. The PS4 only 16/17 retail games.

What the Christ?

Use Goddamn numbers

"Can hold 41 Blu Ray Disc game data installs"

That's not a unit of measurement.

As for the topic creator, games are different sizes, go look at their sizes and subtract that from the size of your hand drive, problem solved.

Depends on the game.. Have games that are 30+ then I have games that are like 8-10

Luckily it's very fast to re-install a game via the disc if you ever need to delete a game install to make room. However, many games to tend to have multi-gig patches to download and install when you install a game for the first time, so that's kind of a bummer on the other hand.

But like everyone's said, it's obviously going to vary on the sizes of the games you play, especially if you count smaller non-disc based games you download on the PlayStation Store. Anyway, my physical games, on average, are about 25GB each. Considering you really only have about 400GB or so of free space, that would be about 16 full-sized games I could install. But of course if I got more 40GB+ games like Killzone: Shadow Fall, that would skew those numbers.

It depends on the game...

Some games are 1GB. Other games are 50GB.