Ever Wondered How Many GB You’d Need to Install Every Xbox One Game?

Here’s an interesting question; how many external hard drives you would need to have instant access to every Xbox One game available? Finder has that and other interesting data inside.

[SlappingOysters]

I reckon this is pretty funny; I have 1.5TB currently of storage. Anyone got 4TB or more?

[ShowanW]

i have a 4TB WD drive on my One. I have maybe 30+ AAA games and still have about 2.5TB left or so.

Will be more definitive when I get home from work

I believe I used about 37% of the drive space.

[Junior4565]

So this gen a lot more people buy their games digitally huh? Actually I like buying them digitally also. Sure I can't loan out games anymore but I never really resold my games either.

[NeoGamer232]

I have 2 x 4TB drives on my X1. 30% disc space now free but I expect it to take a large hit with the release of all the BC content (100 Plus games).

[oneluckybullet]

I have 8 tbs of space so Im pretty good for the moment.

[SlappingOysters]

Should get through to year 4 on that, lol.

[shauzy]

how fast though?

[oneluckybullet]

7200 rpm on the two externals. i dont use the built in hd. i do most of my gaming on the one. i did upgrade my ps4 to 2tb and works good as well. got alot of space still as the ps4 doesnt use as much on the install

[RedDevils]

8tb lmao I'm still on 500gb haha

[sarahnade]

Haha. And here I was back in 2013 thinking my 500GB HD was more than enough.

[TheCommentator]

None of this would be necessary if we still played games from the disc in this generation of consoles.

[UKmilitia]

we cant because its not fast enough to read from disc.

[TheCommentator]

I know, but as a collector, it would have been cheaper in the long run to spend more on a faster BluRay drive than all the extra HDD space I'll need this gen. I have over 100 XB360 games, and I expect about the same for XB1.

[madmonkey01]

ps4 games install from disc in a matter of seconds, so not an issue to delete them and re install if you ever want them again

[madcowzz]

@madmonkey01

But it can be an issue when those games have a bunch of huge patches. My Batman: Arkham Knight data takes up nearly 64 GB, which I would delete (for now) to make a lot of room if not for the enormous patches that were associated with it.

[christian hour]

You can still play games on disc, it just installs and runs it form the hard drive because it's quicker so there's less loading and pop in and it keeps your discs looking pretty and new, and you can just delete the games yuo know you wont be playign for a good while from your hard drive.

This gen I've bought everything digitally.

I'm library sharing with another friends console, so he gets my games for free, and I get his games for free, makes the most sense for someone like me on the poverty side of the social class system.

Between us we've bought about 200 games since 2013.

I just delete any I know I've completed 100% and wont be revisiting until nostalgia beckons a year or two later, ones I know I'll be using soon I back up to an external device and the ones I know I'll be playing for years will remain on the hard Drive. I'll never be deleting P.T that's for sure :)

And the best part, I can no longer make the desperate decision to trade them in for bread money which always regret a week later, so now I get to keep my games forever :D Or until an somethign destroys all servers and infastructure and the world is thrown into a dark age :)

Oh and before anyone says "those games will be gone when they decide they no longer want them on the servers" etc... When has this ever happened outside of isolated incidents like XboxOriginals on 360 being removed?

All my steam games, 360 games, ps3 games etc purchased digitally, I can still redownload all of them at any time and have been able to for a decade now.

Long story short... You don't need every game you buy installed on your consoles hard drive, and large external hard drives are cheaper than video games now too so if you've bought digital you can just back them up, like buying a new shelf or storage box for your physical games. As for those who buy physically, just delete the ones you dont use anymore or any time soon, and if you do wanna play em, it doesnt take long to install. If you need to rieinstall a patch for online play, well a little patience goes a long way I guess :3

Unless you die somehow because you went outside to do stuff while waiting for somethign to finish downloading/patching/installin g and you would have been alive had you just been able to stick the disc in or had enough space to keep all your games. In which case, yeah, this sucks :P

[TheCommentator]

I said from the disc, not on it. Since I want instant access to all my games like every generation before it is necessary, for me, to keep them all installed. In my case, buying external drives is just an added expense I would rather have spent to have a machine with a faster BluRay drive and no installs.

I think devs are releasing broken games way more often and patching way too much(see: The Witcher) because of the mandatory HDD installs too, which is another thing that bothers me this gen.

[ShowanW]

@madmonkey wouldn't you have to re-download the huge day (and future) patches as well?

[user9950279]

I've got 2.5TBs including internal storage and dont expect I'll need more than that this gen. Sitting just below 50% right now.

[NeckBeardBSMTDweller]

System updates are getting rediculous, im in the preview program and installed a 3 GB update the other day. But regardless moostly everytime I turn on my system there is another update usually just under 1 GB. I dont even want to know how much data that's taken up.

[Immorals]

Most of the time it just replaces older data, so not as much as you'd think, luckily for us!

[Skate-AK]

The data replaces itself.

[SegaGamer]

Game size doesn't bother me, the bigger the game the better in my opinion, it's those damn patches that does my head in.

This is another reason why i don't go digital only. I can't afford to keep buying a bunch of external HDD's.

[nevin1]

I don't remember having to worry about that during the NES-PS2 days.

[franwex]

Well, in those early days some games wouldn't save, others provided a password that the player had to WRITE down and not lose it. The battery could die on some games too. Also on the earlier PlayStation consoles the memory cards were somewhat pricey and could only hold 10-15 games. Game progress and space issues has always been the same I feel.

[RedDevils]

I remember I have to get those code to load into some chapter good time haha

[darthv72]

How many will it take for PS4 games? Oh thats right... no external support for PS4 yet. My bad.

[OCEANGROWNKUSH]

There is internal support so it isnt exactly important when you can change out the drive with a MUCH cheaper internal 2.5" drive. Try harder.

[darthv72]

Try harder for what? It was a joke. But if you think its easier replacing the hdd than adding to it then by all means have at it.

Sony will figure it out eventually and go the same route. Its much easier to just plug and play than backup, swap and restore (or dl all over again).

[daxam]

most externals are cheaper than higher capacity 2.5 internals , like darth said its way easier to just plug and go than take out, also with the xbox you can have multiple externals hooked up at the same time for to store your games on

[RiseofScorpio]

External drives are faster than internal on PS4 and your limited to 2 tb.

[pivotplease]

The internal is definitely a hassle to change but once it's done, you feel great. My entertainment setup couldn't accommodate an external space-wise even if I didn't mind the extra eye sore. I put enough work into hiding wires and whatnot.

[madmonkey01]

guess its a security issue.

[daxam]

thats what i was thinking, maybe doing that will open up a way for hackers to pirate games on the ps4 or something else, i am sure sony knows thats a feature we gamers want to be able to use external to install our games on, guess we will have to wait and see

[Perjoss]

My 500 gig Xbox One is serving me well until now, I do play most of my games on my PS4 and PC though.

[spicelicka]

I think 1TB is sufficient. You can start deleting old games once it's full. It's not that difficult to just re-install I don't see the big deal.

[Wikkid666]

I have 4 TB and I'm about 1/3 full. I have 50+ games.

[DeToX420]

I have 4 6 TB one on xbox and ps4 and two on my pc. I don't think I'll have a space issue.

[ThePresentIsAgift]

I recently purchased quite a fast 1tb drive and really pleased with how simple they've made the integration.

[Skate-AK]

Hoping that PS4 gets external hard drive support. I have been cycling out my last 100GB for close to 8 months from now. I have a 1tb drive.

[RedDevils]

I wish

[NeoGamer232]

What does this have to do with an article about how much space every game on X1 would require?

Incredibly off-topic.

[Skate-AK]

What are you smoking dude? It has everything to do with the article. I was saying wow the Xbone has a lot more options for storage and I wish PS4 had the same thing. Honestly you sounded like a fanboy that is quick to jump on someone that mentions PS4. Grow up man.

[WildDonkey]

I have 5TB and around 30 to 35 Digital games and I'm not even 30% full.