I know this is nothing new to the PlayStation experience but I'm really pulling my hair out here over how egregious the shitty storage optimization is on the PlayStation 5. Day one I was able to download my entire PS4 library to a 4 TB HDD that connected and played no problem with my PS5. Eventually I had to make space, sometime around when Cyberpunk came out, and wasn't too surprised that that big ass game needed some more space on a 4 TB.
Now the issue I have now is that I seemingly can't download anything to my external HDD, despite since moving CP2077 to the SSD. The HDD I once had literally every title on now gives me the typical "'more space required" before I can even download a PS4 game update. Two titles of download updates for old PS4 games won't leave my PS5 crossbar because they're pending downloads and deleting them from the HDD didn't remove them.
I'm just super frustrated with this messy shit when I feel like it shouldn't be anymore complicated than "free space? download initiated"
The hoops you gotta jump through if you have a lot of digital games and want to keep them all on system is somewhat sickening.
Now the issue I have now is that I seemingly can't download anything to my external HDD, despite since moving CP2077 to the SSD. The HDD I once had literally every title on now gives me the typical "'more space required" before I can even download a PS4 game update. Two titles of download updates for old PS4 games won't leave my PS5 crossbar because they're pending downloads and deleting them from the HDD didn't remove them.
I'm just super frustrated with this messy shit when I feel like it shouldn't be anymore complicated than "free space? download initiated"
The hoops you gotta jump through if you have a lot of digital games and want to keep them all on system is somewhat sickening.