10 Changes PS4 Needs To Keep Ahead In The Console War

3. Improved External Hard Drive Support

Easily one of the most frustrating additions in the last generation was the shift away from external memory cards to more traditional PC hard drives. While an understandable upgrade to deliver superior graphics and gameplay, players soon found that those included at purchase were hardly the largest ones on the market. Barring replacing internal hard drives, external hard drives soon became an essential part in playing any sizable game library. This was doubly true if any owner planned upon using other media on the machine, from songs to films. Unfortunately it seems that Sony seems to have largely forgotten how necessary plug-in storage devices are to Playstation owners. With no option to install games or files to an external storage device, gamers are stuck with eventually swapping out the 500GB internal hard drive the machine is shipped with. Naturally, this is a far more expensive and less customer friendly option, and curbs the willingness of anyone with a tighter wallet to buy new titles thanks to the limited space. Were this not enough, Microsoft recently announced that the Xbox One would be supporting external hard drives with their machine. It's another edge Sony's main competitor is clawing away from them, and an upgrade the Playstation 4 desperately needs.