When Sony announced the PS Plus games lineup for February, it also revealed its plans to expand the 10GB cloud storage for save data that members have been using for years. The platform holder said it would be increasing the limit to 100GB, giving Plus members ten times the space to upload their precious game saves. Earlier today, Sony confirmed the upgrade has been rolled out:
If you log into your PS4 and navigate to the PS Plus section in the top left, it should tell you what percentage of the cloud storage you're using, which should now have shrunk right down. For example, this author is now only using 5 per cent of the expanded cloud storage.
Are you pleased to have the extra space for your game saves? Do you use the feature much, or do you never give it a second thought? Get your head out of the clouds in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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I use cloud storage for my saves, it's a useful feature - but mainly because it's automatic rather than because it's online (i.e. auto-backups to local storage would be just as good). It does worry me what'll happen if you stop subscribing and then have dozens of GBs of saves now unavailable, though.
Yay.... but then I thought about it, what if I already have over 100 gigs of saved data...oh no!!!
@Matroska - Saves are stored for 6 months if your plus expires. If you don't resub then they're gone after that time.
@Shigurui nah, I was unsubscribed for over a year from PS Plus and my saves were still there afterwards.
@manu0 - Ah, good to know. I asked about it on reddit when my sub lapsed a year or two ago and was told 6 months. Thanks for the correction!
@Shigurui I was unsubscribed for over 2 years, and my saves were still there as well when I resubbed for a month late last year,
I did have to delete some really old saves a few times, so I'm happy with this update. I've only got 20GB worth of save data on my PS4, so room for five times that!
@NintendoFan4Lyf Some PS4 game save data is quite large. Plus (pun definitely intended) I think this upgrade is also in preparation for the even larger PS5 game save data files incoming.
@NintendoFan4Lyf I play tons of games, having the room to save everything is great in the cloud just in case system failure or theft. Why be negative over something positive?
@NintendoFan4Lyf I wouldn't be surprised if 2 years into next gen.... people will be requesting more than 100gb
Never thought I’d be buying most of my games online, but here I am🤦🏽♂️ Once it’s affordable like Xbox or Steam it’s gonna blow the competition out the water! Now that games are downloadable on PS Now, definitely!
Streaming becomes more interesting when discs are absent.
very happy with this mine was full ages ago
I'm happy with this. Good timing for me, as well. I was just about to hit the limit
i will never use this 100gb, still use local storage.
@NintendoFan4Lyf it is overkill, yeah.
My Tearaway Unfolded save data was over a gigabyte. Largely because the game involves creating your own artwork.
My guess is that some people save files in Dreams will be absolutely massive.
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