Will you upgrade your PS4 storage?

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As you should all know, the PS4 doesn't come with enough storage space for those who enjoy downloading a lot of games. Being easy to do, will you upgrade your storage as soon as you get your PS4?
 
If I ever get the PS4, I won't upgrade the storage since I don't buy many 60 dollar games a year, or in multiple years, so it is doubtful, I would fill up all the space. Also, I plan to sell old games I have to buy new games to play, so I be deleting games off a drive anyways because games can't be played without a game disc.

Plus, the $60-100 cost of a hard drive is an added expense which I feel is unnecessary for the buyer to pay because they paid $400 for a console which already has a 500GB drive. Paying more for a new hard drive to replace another new working hard drive is a disappointment when $400-500 PCs these days, have 1TB hard drives.

I bet by the time I decide to get the PS4, if I ever do, the 500GB version won't be made anymore like how the PS3 20GB-60GB fat version is no longer made, and the smallest hard drive versions of the PS3 is 250GB for $250 for the slim version. Plus, Sony would probably have external storage for games in a few years.
 
I don't really like online subscriptions, so it is unlikely I subscribe to any online subscription.

Plus, it takes so long for me to download large files, so I probably not download much online.
 
How big are Playstation 4 games at the moment? Let's say for argument’s sake the games will be around the 20GB mark that's only 25 games you could put on a hard drive.
 
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How big are Playstation 4 games at the moment? Let's say for argument’s sake the games will be around the 20GB mark that's only 25 games you could put on a hard drive.
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You don't really get a full storage drive on a PS4 due to OS and stuff. Some games a bigger than 20GB so I think at best, you can put 20 games on each PS4 give or take a title or two.
 
I don't plan on upgrading the storage. I usually only play a few games at a time anyway so I don't feel I will ever need a space increase. 
 
The PS4 has 500GB of storage... Except the first 100GB is reserved for the system (including partition data, file system structure and hidden recovery sections) or taken up because drive size is displayed in base2 while advertised as base10*. (Leaving you with 400GB total usable.)

*500GB in base2 would be approx 465GB. 

Nearly every game released (even physical copies) so far needs to have some part installed to the hard drive (perhaps not the full game, but still some). And this is likely to be the case for at least the foreseeable future. 
I have Battlefield 4, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Resogun and am sitting at ~330 left. So it does not take long to chew through space on the PS4. 


I'm considering picking up a cheap 2TB 2.5" laptop drive to install. But money is the big issue.

It's also likely that later versions of PS4 will have larger hard drives (probably 1TB at first, then 2TB later) once more games come out and the necessity for space increases.
 
I think if you wait many years like 2017 before buying your first PS4, the hard drive size would be 1TB like how the original bigger $600 PS3 60GB versions are no longer being made. 500GB hard drive may also not be made in many years from now because very few people buy them because most computers, laptops, and other devices which have hard drives come with 1TB or bigger hard drives in the future.

The PS4 may also be $299 with a 1TB hard drive after many years of being on sale.
 
I would say by 2015 most gamers are going to be making  a pretty strong demand to sony to get bigger HDD into the PS4. Though I like to see the return of the memory cards.
 
I bet a few special edition PS4 in 2014 will come with larger hard drives since larger hard drives cost only a few dollars more, and people who buy special edition PS4 usually are willing to pay more money for a Special Edition PS4 with pictures of their favorite games on the case.

It's too bad that the PS4 does not yet support installing games to an external USB hard drive, so people can use both their internal drive, and a USB drive to install, and save games to.
 
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