Why does the PS5 have such a small hard disk drive?

Posted on May 25, 2021 at 12:30 pm

The PS5 is still in high demand across the UK. No sooner do they come in to stock, within a hour or so they are sold out again.

Although the PS5 does have a lot to boost about, the size of the hard disk drive is certainly not one of them. The PS4 was available as a 500GB or a terabit system but the PS5 only has a 825gb internal memory. And that’s not all, only 668GB is available to use for saved games as the rest is used up by software and future updates. So why has Sony taken a step back and reduced the memory in the PS5? There doesn’t seem to be a reason as to why they have done this but they have said that at some point in the future they will release an update to allow the memory to be upgraded. No doubt they will try and make extra money from this somewhere along the line.

For now, you may be having to restrict which games you play as some such as Call of Duty War Zone can take up as much as 200GB of space. You can use a PS4 compatible external hard drive with the PS5 but you are only able to store PS4 games on it not PS5.

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