If you're anything like us lot then you've probably had to euthanize a few games to make room for new adventures on your PlayStation 4 – 500GB just doesn't go far enough these days. Of course, you've always got the option to upgrade the 2.5" stock hard-drive to something a little beefier, but even then the price to double up to 1TB is pretty steep, with prices flirting around the £100/$100 mark.
Thankfully, then, there is a saving grace for thrifty PS4 owners thanks to Nyko's Databank. The hefty add-on accessory will beef up the console's form factor, but it's worth it for the ability to upgrade your hard-drive with a much cheaper 3.5" unit of your choosing. Nothing like a bargain, eh?
The Nyko PS4 Databank will be releasing in North America on 9th June, though there's no release date for the UK and Europe just yet. With the constant onslaught of digital discounts, freebies via PlayStation Plus, and inevitable game updates taking up precious disk space, an adequately sized hard-drive is a must have.
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[source amazon.com, via gameidealist.com]
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space is an issue and that's why I think Sony should add a feature to the PS4 to allow us to use external Hard Drives, I know you can replace the internal one but external ones would allow us to increase our space by as much as we like without having to modify our consoles in any way
What baffles me is that Europe is the biggest market for the PS4 but north America gets every game and accessoires Like this..
Already upgraded mine to a 2 Tb 2.5"...cost me about £120 but traded in an old PS3 and a few games to help with the cost, I've still loads of space
@BLPs 500GB is an issue as every game has to be installed on the Hard Drive regardless of whether its on-disc or not. Considering AAA games are around the 40GB size, this equates to around 10-15 games - depending on their actual size, DLC, patches, as well as system software too.
I have had my XB1 for longer and have amassed more games than I do for my PS4. However I also bought a 5TB external Hard drive too for around £110. I have more than 500GB worth of games now on that.
500GB is adequate if you only have a few games installed at a time but considering this generation requires games to be installed instead of playing from Disc as older generation consoles did, 500GB is incredibly small. I hope Sony do allow the option of 3rd Party external HDD support.
It'll need to be available in white before I even consider it. However, this shouldn't be down to a 3rd party company to make, Sony should just allow external drives to be used. It's absolutely pathetic that it's not an option, and 500GB is a laughably small number. Ridiculous.
@FullbringIchigo agreed! I'm too much of a nitwit to take apart my PS4 without causing damage, so the option to plug in an external hard drive would be a life saver. Well, PS4 and money saver.
Few weeks back I upgraded to a Sumsung 2TB internal hard drive. Cost me £85 on Amazon and it's everything I needed. So easy to do too. This just seems pointless.
@FullbringIchigo this has been possible for ages, since last major firmware update
How does this thing work exactly? When I put a HDD into my 12GB it moved everything to the new dri e and the 12GB goes unused. Im guessing this wont turn off your internal but is reading from it seemless? Stupid Wii U (sorry @BLPs but the thing has issues) ignores the 32GB I paid extra for when an extetnal is attached. And Ive lost savedfiles w/ their stupid OS keeping separate files for when the HDD is off or on. Its just a mess.
Bought a 2TB seagate 2.5" external, removed it from case, stuck it in PS4, works a treat, plus still have a 500Gb external. Bought it for £75 a couple of months ago, now £65!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B00ILALU9G
@BLPs Programmers from the 70s - late 90s had compression down to an art form. With never ending space these days programmers dont put any time into compression. that's why we are starting to see the lack of skill In newer programmers and never ending patches.
Back on subject love the look of the ps4 with the hd on the top gives it a more unique appearance.
@NEOTDS yes but that is just to read data already on a HDD like music, I'm talking about using external HDD's as storage for installing games, dlc and updates which the PS4 can't do (but the XB1 and Wii U can)
Ahh I see. Yea I doubt sony will ever allow that again after what happen to ps3
@BLPs
The Wii U is current gen. Its hardware is superior to the strongest last-gen console (the PS3); it is, by definition, current gen. Please put the fanboy pandering on hold and stick to constructive discussion.
I already upgraded my HDD to 1 TB, but I'll probably pick this up when I fill that up (took me about a year and a half to fill that with mostly on-disc installs, so it probably won't take more than a year or two). Does it come with a HDD, or is it just the hardware interface?
@dellyrascal Thanks for the link. I've been meaning to upgrade but I never know what to buy, now I do
@BLPs
Ohh, I misunderstood. I've seen so many fanboys harp on the Wii U for such petty reasons that I simply assumed it was meant seriously. I apologize.
@BLPs It's a 3rd party addon.
@Neolit
If generation were only about pure hardware power, you'd be right in your initial view of the Wii U, but at least to those of us who have spent decades gaming on pretty much platform out there, there's more to it than that, as you mentioned.
I have a Wii U, a PS4, an Xbox One, a high-end gaming PC, a New 3DS, and a PS Vita, and each platform definitely has its own array of pros and cons. Generation is about advances in gaming, not just advances in graphics. To be sure, graphical enhancements are part of that, but the way we play games, especially these days where graphical improvements are minute at best, are the key. Even if it's not to one's personal liking - I know not everyone liked the Wii's motion control or the DS's dual screens, for example - the most important improvements in gaming these past 10 years have been how we experience the game far more so than what the game visibly looks like.
Now I will say, of course, that I LOVE the stunning graphics on the PS4 and Xbox One, but when I'm hanging out with my friends, we almost never play anything other than my Wii U; it's just the better platform for social gaming because that's its focus - not graphical prowess but bringing a new experience.
So, uh, yeah I like the look of this. Be a shame if we didn't get it in Europe. I guess I'll try and install a bigger drive myself in the meantime, since I've had to choose which games I want to keep on the drive and which I don't. I guess it just comes down to keeping the ones you play most. Good bye Gta V, see ya Destiny, hello Witcher 3. By Odins beard, I love that game.
@NEOTDS
No, that is just for back-up, not actually playing games.
@ElkinFencer10
Except that the Wii U doesn't actually bring any actually new experiences (maybe Splatoon, but you can't do 4 players on one console, so it becomes a moot point), as it's big mulitiplayer games are all stuff we've seen before--Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Mario Party, Wii Party, etc. Nintendo Land's appeal lasts only about an hour. Everything we get out of multiplayer on Wii U can also be done on Wii, GC, and N64.
@Quorthon
Not true. The asymmetrical gameplay, while few non-Nintendo developers have used it well, offers completely different play styles than any console before it. The multiplayer in ZombiU, NintendoLand, Call of Duty, and Hyrule Warriors prove that. With stuff like CoD and Hyrule Warriors, it doesn't reinvent the wheel, but it does improve vastly on the split-screen model, and I've never seen a local multiplayer game that works like ZombiU or NintendoLand.
@GraveLordXD Just online when your reply popped up. Nice avatar. Wondering what part you agree with the bad compression or the look of the ps4?
@Sanquine North America and Europe are about neck and neck with each doing a little over 8 million last count. So Europe is not the biggest market. Its equal in sales. What makes the difference (when its Sony doing it, not some third party) is that in NA, Sony has to fight for every inch against MS, so they are likely to put more effort there than Europe where its a sure win.
That being said...this is a Nyko product, it doesnt get more cheap and generic than that, so you are not missing out on anything.
Don't care, when do I get my type pad?!
Why anybody would want to save around £15 to have that monstrocity on their PS4 is beyond me.
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