Are you playing 8 games at a time OP?
Some of you don't have multiple games that you play with friends on top of some singleplayer games and it shows.
Like this really isn't crazy. Thankfully for me most people are on PC so it's not AS big of an issue as for some people, but let's imagine someone who games a lot vaguely based on me kind sorta:
1. Overwatch. Play with friends a lot casually. This one I could delete since I often maybe play around holiday times. But waiting to download it is annoying. It's not huge, but definitely an inconvenience
2. Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the big long game to play through over time.
3. Wolfenstein The New Collosus, a more focused story based game that I never got around to before, for when you're not feeling like doing more missions in ACV and want something more narrative. Try to get some time in on this on the weekends when I have a couple hours of uninterrupted alone time.
4. Destiny 2. Gotta hop on once a week to do DSC with the boys.
5. Sackboy. Girlfriend comes over every once in a while and wants to play it.
6. Telltale's The walking dead, whichever one we're currently on. I only play that one when she comes over cuz she doesn't want to miss the story, and hey, we have other things we do too when she comes over, so we don't just knock that out in a week, and even when we're done we move to the next in the series or whatever else Telltale has.
7. Modern Warfare, for when just a couple of friends want to sit down and do some warzone because we don't have enough people to do a destiny raid.
8. Apex cuz that one friend refuses to play warzone but he loves Apex and he's on right now so let's get on it.
9. Call of Duty Blops CW for when we don't want to warzone and just want to do some normal multiplayer. Friends from work want to try zombies.
10. Want to show my dad some VR stuff because he's visiting here in a couple days. I'm going to download Star Wars Squadrons and DriveclubVR to show him.
11 (not really). I'd add minecraft but mercifully minecraft is tiny. Sometimes a few friends aren't really wanting to get into combat and just want to hang out in minecraft a little.
I don't know if everything above here would overfill a PS5. Haven't done all the calculation. But I'm willing to bet it absolutely does. If not, it leaves no wiggleroom. And even if these specific examples don't, another arrangement might. Let's say you replace ACV with FFXV, since I actually am planning to play that soon due to the 60 fps being a thing now on PS5 and having gotten warmed up on the Comrades multiplayer. That's 100GB. MW is 170. Destiny is 70 and will only get bigger. Wolf is 55. Blops CW is like 133GB. This shit adds up so quick. And it doesn't help that all the big mainstay games you play with other people and you need to be able to boot up whenever are always the hugest.
AAAAAAND let us not forget that the PS5, like the PS4, needs a stupid amount of extra space available in order to install games. Like double of what you want to install sometimes.
I play for a few hours most days of the week, and every week I will be doing some random combination of the above things. With a data cap, it is absolutely not possible for me to be deleting and redownloading these games over and over, and that's forgetting how long of these things can take to redownload. Having friends ask to hop onto warzone is out of the question if I have to install it, so that's like, idk a third of my SSD taken up permanently. My downloads are not fast. That's a major factor in what I can play.
Like sure, I could choose to pick and choose between all these games. Like, i's not that I am "playing them simultaneously" dude. This should be very obvious. But over the course of a month, I very well may end up playing through these games. I stream a lot of content too. I don't want to be burdening my data cap, especially since I may not be the only one using it, let alone have to wait for these giant games to download, just to be able to play them. Paying for the convenience of being able to use them whenever is worth it to me. I can do all this without even thinking about it on PC right now. It's just such a better experience not to have to micromanage your space and easily move around your content.
And none of these gaming habits changed once I moved over to PS5. Like, yes it's a new console, but I'm still playing all the same old games and jumping around with whatever friends I'm playing and whichever game those friends are wanting to play.
