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Morning all,
Wondered if I could get a bit of advice please?
Mrs SteveS used to be quite in to her PS2 back in the day and has ummed and ahhed over a PS4 since it came out. I've decided to buy her one as I've just bought a new mountain bike so I'm hoping it will keep her amused enough to not notice me gone for hours at a time!
Question is, what PS4 should I buy? 500gb? 1tb? Pro? Slim?
I'm guessing the memory size is only beneficial if you download games? If so, I know she'd rather have a physical disc so that would be pointless getting 1tb.
If anyone know's of any deals / offers anywhere please send me the link! I'm only interested in a new console, not pre-owned.
Thanks.
Wondered if I could get a bit of advice please?
Mrs SteveS used to be quite in to her PS2 back in the day and has ummed and ahhed over a PS4 since it came out. I've decided to buy her one as I've just bought a new mountain bike so I'm hoping it will keep her amused enough to not notice me gone for hours at a time!
Question is, what PS4 should I buy? 500gb? 1tb? Pro? Slim?
I'm guessing the memory size is only beneficial if you download games? If so, I know she'd rather have a physical disc so that would be pointless getting 1tb.
If anyone know's of any deals / offers anywhere please send me the link! I'm only interested in a new console, not pre-owned.
Thanks.
The storage isn't just for downloading games, it's also for save files etc. so if you plan on having a lot of games (10+) then you may find you run out of space.
You do, however have a couple of options: You can change the hard drive yourself without invalidating the warranty (the instruction manual tells you how to do it), a laptop HDD is what you need. The other option is that since a recent software update, you can save your stuff to an external HDD.
I normally have about 6 or 7 games at one time and 500GB is adequate but I do have a 2TB external HDD should I run out of space on the console.
AIUI the PS4 Pro is mainly a 4K machine so unless you're playing games in 4K you wont notice a difference. I may be wrong though.
ETA: It seems the advice is that if you can stretch to a Pro, get one as a kind of future proofing, saying that though for the minute a PS4 slim will seem just as good but not quite as quick to load etc.
You do, however have a couple of options: You can change the hard drive yourself without invalidating the warranty (the instruction manual tells you how to do it), a laptop HDD is what you need. The other option is that since a recent software update, you can save your stuff to an external HDD.
I normally have about 6 or 7 games at one time and 500GB is adequate but I do have a 2TB external HDD should I run out of space on the console.
AIUI the PS4 Pro is mainly a 4K machine so unless you're playing games in 4K you wont notice a difference. I may be wrong though.
ETA: It seems the advice is that if you can stretch to a Pro, get one as a kind of future proofing, saying that though for the minute a PS4 slim will seem just as good but not quite as quick to load etc.
Edited by eybic on Wednesday 28th June 08:35
Definitely get the bigger hard drive. Even if you plan on buying more discs than downloading you'll still need the space for updates, save files and so on. Also the PSN sales are decent and there are a lot of interesting games that are digital only so you might end up downloading games anyway.
If you've got the budget you might as well get a pro.
If you've got the budget you might as well get a pro.
I bought the 1TB version a couple of years ago. Because my step son uses it too, the hard drive soon filled up. To remedy this, I bought a 2TB external 3.5" drive:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TKFEE5S/ref...
Now I don't have to delete game files when we buy a new game. The good thing with this HD is that it requires no external power source, just the USB connection.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00TKFEE5S/ref...
Now I don't have to delete game files when we buy a new game. The good thing with this HD is that it requires no external power source, just the USB connection.
Edited by chris watton on Wednesday 28th June 10:03
ZedLeg said:
Definitely get the bigger hard drive. Even if you plan on buying more discs than downloading you'll still need the space for updates, save files and so on. Also the PSN sales are decent and there are a lot of interesting games that are digital only so you might end up downloading games anyway.
If you've got the budget you might as well get a pro.
Definitely the above - the disks are pretty much used for copy protection as the games install a lot onto the hard drive anyway (blu-ray disk is only 25 GB, games 25-50 GB uncompressed, some like BF4 are even bigger). Get a 1TB pro and an external drive some time in the future. If you've got the budget you might as well get a pro.
You also lose something like 120GB to the system so a 500GB model only gives you 380GB to play with.
After you've installed a few games (mandatory, you can't play off a disc anymore, textures are too big to allow it) you'll soon run out of space.
1TB is the minimum you'll want really. Or get a 500GB model and stick a 2TB drive in yourself when you need it. They are pretty inexpensive and replacing the drive is very easy.
After you've installed a few games (mandatory, you can't play off a disc anymore, textures are too big to allow it) you'll soon run out of space.
1TB is the minimum you'll want really. Or get a 500GB model and stick a 2TB drive in yourself when you need it. They are pretty inexpensive and replacing the drive is very easy.
Agreed with 1TB. We have a 500mB and whilst we actually haven't run out of memory, we do delete files after we've "completed" games. We are running close so I'm looking to add a new HDD as per other suggestions to take it up to 2TB then we'll never have to worry. Also, if you have PS+ membership, they have free game downloads every month ....most I don't bother with but you only need a few a year before you use up the memory quickly.
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