Standard HDD space for next gen?

What do you think the standard hard drive space should be on the next gen consoles by Microsoft Sony and Nintendo?

I think at least 2TB should be standard

@Pharoahogc1: 1 petabyte

• It would take 223,000 DVDs (4.7Gb each) to hold 1Pb.

• If the average MP3 encoding for mobile is around 1MB per minute, and the average song lasts about four minutes, then a petabyte of songs would last over 2,000 years playing continuously.

I think they are going to give you the same, now standard, 500 GB.

What they should do is not only allow to upgrade for a bigger internal HDD but also make use of external HDDs. Now if they could be convinced of ditching 2.5" HDDs in favor of 3.5" HDDs for internal ........

If you want bigger, you need to pay more. They should come with the smallest possible and made to be easily swapped. Then the owner should decide if he needs more.

500g SSD.

It's going to be too small, whatever they choose.

It's hard to answer this without knowing things about the games and machine like what kind of optical drive the machines will use.

I will say I would be happy with a 4TB internal to start off, but I'll probably have to buy that myself.

I currently have a 2TB internal in my Batman PS4.

2TB SSD

2TB feels way too small even today. Has to be something between 6-10TB.

It's going to be whatever is cost effective for M$ony

Depends on the user. I currently have a 1TB drive along with the internal storage of the xbox one and I'm only about half way full. But then again I don't buy a ton of games like I used to.

2TB should be standard. 1TB on the PS4 feels so restrictive.

I imagine the 1TB could be seen as the standard next gen.

1TB with easy ability to expand with third party products like internal and external HDDs.

@lamprey263: how do you them to price gouge us if they gave us options like that?

Microsoft have already started making Xbox One with a 1TB hybrid SSD HDD, lets hope this trend continues.

PS4 allows you to put an internal HDD in of your liking, but no external support yet.

Xbox One does not allow for internal HDD replacement but externals are completely fine and from my experience work great.

I have about 30 pretty big games installed on my 1tb HDD on my PC. Then I have lots of movies, music, programs etc. What the **** are people using their storage for? "Way too small"? The hell? Do you really need 100 games installed on a HDD at the same time?

"Pretty big" games nowadays are 30-50GB. You wouldn't have space for 30 of them, let alone anything else. Besides, heavy Steam users tend to have their entire library installed because it's easier to just get bigger HDD than wasting time managing the space.

Yeah, I can see that. I just found it hard to believe anyone must have 10tb space.. I couldn't fill that up even if I tried. I have a bunch of 30-ish GB games, but nothing as much as 50.

2TB at least...

500gb but at the same time they'll be selling a separate $150 1tb hdd so they could double milk you

2TB

@Litchie: We are talking about next gen here, so that'd be anywhere between 2018-2020. By then I wouldn't be surprised if the average game is above 100GB.

1-2TB

2TB and nothing lower. I project a 50GB standard for next gen AA-AAA games.

1TB is fine. I have no issues with the 500gb, as is.

500 gigs is fine for all consoles except xbox.

I want 4 terabytes on the xbox if they will force you to install the games like they're doing right now.

For MS and Sony? Probably like 2TB SSD or hybrid drive.

For Nintendo? Probably like 64 GB flash memory.

idk, something small and slow.

Sony and MS will probably start off with a 1tb hdd at the start of the gen (probably end with 2tb), while Nintendo will probably go for a whooping 100gb hdd....

Nintendo should have 150 GB of flash memory or 1TB SSD or HDD. What is a SSD?

MS and Sony should do that.

2-4TB SSHD, and i'll pay extra.

@GameboyTroy: Why?

Should be at least a 5GB 7200 rpm hybrid drive. The speed of the drives in Ps4 and XB1 are also a problem, they really cheap'd out on those standard 5400 rpm drives.

What I said about Nintendo should be fine for them.

I'm agreeing with the poster I've quoted for MS and Sony. 2TB should be enough for them.

@GameboyTroy: I was referring to the bump.

This thread is helpful. Its a serious thing.

It shouldn't be a situation where you need to manage space.

Physical games should just run off the disk and thats it.

That's not going to happen, at least on the Sony and MS side. Not sure what Nintendo will do next gen, blu ray will be too slow to run games off the disc for whatever hardware they put out.

But I agree, forced installs are bad for consoles. If I had my way, we'd go back to cartridges.

2 tb.

500gb bare minimum. 1Tb for recommended.

@Chozofication: "blu ray will be too slow to run games off the disc for whatever hardware they put out."

Any chance a new faster media will come by PS5?

" If I had my way, we'd go back to cartridges."

If we had the storage space we get from blurays and don't need to blow into the cartridges like the NES/SNES days, then I'm all for it.

$100-200 cheaper and use your own HDD.

Companies should not be able to charge a premium for dirt cheap storage.

I doubt a new disc format will be made, right now they're just increasing blu ray's size capacities and digital is becoming more and more prevalent.

Cartridges can definitely hold enough space these days, a modern console would likely use SD cards instead of rom carts like back in the day.