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Need help managing space on Xbox One

mcurphy

mcurphy

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I bought the 500GB Xbox one for my son for Christmas. The hard drive is already full!! What is he, or I, doing wrong? Here are the games that we bought:

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - download
Dragon Age: Inquisition - disc
Sunset Overdrive - disc
Forza 6 - disc
FIFA 16 - disc
Madden 16 - disc
Halo: The Master Chief Collection - disc
Minecraft - disc
NBA 2K15 - disc
Star Wars Battlefront - disc

Also added these apps:
Amazon Prime Video
Netflix
Youtube

So we have 10 games, and only one was a download. Is that really all we can play without purchasing an external HDD or storage with a flash drive? Or are we doing something wrong with the install and updates of these games?
 
All games install to the HDD with the XB1 and PS4. It's a beneficial (load times) flaw (space-hungry) setup, but nothing can be done about it. There's nothing you're doing wrong, the games just take up a lot of space. Halo: TMCC is over 60 GB, and Forza 6 is over 40 GB as well, I believe. That 500-GB HDD also isn't actually 500 GB, I think you get around 375-400 GB of usable space with the console (between unit conversion and OS reservation space).

You can, of course, always add the aforementioned external HDD (a flash drive isn't the best idea, given their higher prices), or you could uninstall games as you finish with them.
 
mcurphy said:
I bought the 500GB Xbox one for my son for Christmas. The hard drive is already full!! What is he, or I, doing wrong? Here are the games that we bought:

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - download
Dragon Age: Inquisition - disc
Sunset Overdrive - disc
Forza 6 - disc
FIFA 16 - disc
Madden 16 - disc
Halo: The Master Chief Collection - disc
Minecraft - disc
NBA 2K15 - disc
Star Wars Battlefront - disc

Also added these apps:
Amazon Prime Video
Netflix
Youtube

So we have 10 games, and only one was a download. Is that really all we can play without purchasing an external HDD or storage with a flash drive? Or are we doing something wrong with the install and updates of these games?
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I'm actually surprised you got that much on the 500GB. That's a decent selection.

Just get yourself a 2TB external and go nuts.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0B753GZQPBCBST6JX76N
 
Ugh, I honestly thought I was doing something wrong. I can't believe that they are selling systems now that you can only play 10 games!! WTF. Seriously, why don't they just advertise, "hey buy our system and you can play 10 games, otherwise you have to spend another $100 for extra space!"

I understand that it increases the load times and it is smoother game play, but who the fuck only plays 10 games? I remember having almost 50 games on the original nintendo, and we had about 35 games for the atari.

Thanks for the tips and advice everyone, I guess I am going to have to buy an external HDD.
 
mcurphy said:
Ugh, I honestly thought I was doing something wrong. I can't believe that they are selling systems now that you can only play 10 games!! WTF. Seriously, why don't they just advertise, "hey buy our system and you can play 10 games, otherwise you have to spend another $100 for extra space!"

I understand that it increases the load times and it is smoother game play, but who the fuck only plays 10 games? I remember having almost 50 games on the original nintendo, and we had about 35 games for the atari.

Thanks for the tips and advice everyone, I guess I am going to have to buy an external HDD.
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To be far, are you play all 10 games or are they just installed?
 
KentState said:
To be far, are you play all 10 games or are they just installed?
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We play all 10 of them and haven't finished any of them yet. The sports games I am guessing we will never stop playing unless we update to a new version. I just bought him the Rare Replay game and it has like 30 games on it, but we can't play it unless we uninstall one of the other games. And I am also wanting to download the RBI 16 when it comes out. I just don't have any other option but to buy another HDD.
 
It does suck, part of why I upgraded to the Halo 5 console. At the same time, this is why you research before buying a console. It's been out almost 2.5 years, and this isn't a new thing.
 
mcurphy said:
We play all 10 of them and haven't finished any of them yet. The sports games I am guessing we will never stop playing unless we update to a new version. I just bought him the Rare Replay game and it has like 30 games on it, but we can't play it unless we uninstall one of the other games. And I am also wanting to download the RBI 16 when it comes out. I just don't have any other option but to buy another HDD.
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Makes sense. One upside is that an external drive may be faster than the one built in. For 80-100, you will have plenty of storage. Or if you have an old HDD laying around, you can always put it in an USB 3.0 case.
 
Nothing wrong. Games are huge. Every little blade of grass having multiple layers of normal maps, specular maps, etc all 4k x 4k x 32 bit RGBA and having skeleton animation and a bajillion vertices, 1080p cut scenes without compression artifacts, etc etc etc isn't cheap in terms of storage.

They are pre-installed to the internal storage because there is so much content to load that an optical disc can't stream them or load them fast enough without significant delays and popping. As outdated and shitty as mechanical hard drives are they are still orders of magnitude faster than an optical disk.
 
First World problems:
- These graphics suck, when is the Xbox One coming out???
*Xbox One comes out*
- WTF, I can only install 10 games in the console!

Basically, it's similar to the old programmer's line... Great graphics, cheap, fast load... pick 2 of the 3.
 
xantub said:
First World problems:
- These graphics suck, when is the Xbox One coming out???
*Xbox One comes out*
- WTF, I can only install 10 games in the console!

Basically, it's similar to the old programmer's line... Great graphics, cheap, fast load... pick 2 of the 3.
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Or get all 3 with a PC.

Except then you just waste money because most games are nerfed to console capabilities.

Curious though how much is waste vs actual resources.

I mean.. you can't go to a blank webpage without Chrome needing 10 GB of RAM despite the fact that we could do it 2 decades ago on a 486 just fine...
 
exdeath said:
Or get all 3 with a PC.

Except then you just waste money because most games are nerfed to console capabilities.

Curious though how much is waste vs actual resources.

I mean.. you can't go to a blank webpage without Chrome needing 10 GB of RAM despite the fact that we could do it 2 decades ago on a 486 just fine...
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Exaggerating just a little bit there 🙂 I'm reading this in Chrome and task manager shows it's using about 250MB (a 90MB 'app' and then a bunch of background processes totalling some 160MB).

The line still applies to PC. You want great graphics? then you can't use on-board graphics, you need a $200 video card. You want even better graphics at 60fps? well, the $200 video card won't be enough, you now need a $550 video card.
 
Got a 1tb model before Christmas for about 245. Was shocked how quickly space went bye bye, and this was with double the average unit size.

Given how long installs take, i'm rather surprised you don't hear more negative reviews about lack of size/how much space is consumed on the newer consoles.
 
Lil Frier said:
But you don't. You don't get cheap, unless you sacrifice the SSD or the GPU. Even a WD Black drive can be pretty pricey.
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Depends what you define as cheap. A NVMe SSD, GTX 980, and i7 combined aren't even going to be a 10th of what people pay for their new cars every 4 years. Perspective.
 
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exdeath said:
Depends what you define as cheap. A NVMe SSD, GTX 980, and i7 combined aren't even going to be a 10th of what people pay for their new cars every 4 years. Perspective.
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LOL, that's close to the dumbest comparison you could have pulled out, after maybe a house or a boat.

In the console gaming forums, in a topic about video game consoles, in response to a series of posts about the cost of gaming hardware (PC vs. console), your defense is a PC is cheaper than a car?

Just stop trolling already, please.
 
NBA 2K15 takes up like ~60GB itself, it's ridiculous, I have that on PS4 and uninstalled since I don't play it anymore.

You can always get a USB3 external HDD as the price has plummeted for them now and they're actually faster than the internal HDD due to its SATA2 interface (USB3 is faster than SATA2).
 
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