Sony Files Patent For PS4 With 1 TB Hard Drive, More Storage Space On The Way?
Console hard drives are filling up quickly, as applications and games continue to take up increasingly more digital storage space. Sony has seemingly recognized this trend, with reports that the company has filed a patent for a PS4 boasting a 1 TB hard drive.
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Current PS4 and Xbox One models come with only a 500 GB hard drive--a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes, so the storage space would be doubled. The patent filing can be seen on the Federal Trade Commission's website, as reported by DualShockers.
The image you see below is a snippet of the FCC's document on the subject, describing a "computer entertainment system" from Sony featuring a 1 TB HDD. The new model is listed as CUH-1215B, and a matching CUH-1215A is listed with a 500 GB hard drive--the size of the existing PS4 unit.
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Larger hard drives are going to become nearly essential as the current generation continues, and not only because games themselves are getting larger. Digital distribution continues to proliferate, and more console owners are buying and downloading games through online stores than ever before. Between this new trend and mandatory hard drive installs on physical copies of games, hard drives are filling up quickly--an extra 500 GB of storage would likely go a long way. Nobody wants to juggle their game library by uninstalling titles and reinstalling new ones in a rotation, so a 1 TB hard drive would be a great solution.
