10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Xbox One

5. Your Hard Drive Could Fill Up

The original Xbox was criticised as being more like the computers Microsoft were used to making than a proper console. It was pretty unwieldy, the controller wasn't up to much, and its use of a hard drive instead of memory cards seemed like madness. We want to play games, not use a word processor! Of course then that ended up being pretty much the standard, as the PS3 opted for flash memory over memory cards or the like, as did the Wii. The Xbox One stuck with the hard drive again, as had the 360, and it works out pretty well for the storing of save files, downloadable games and all those fun DLC things and apps and the like. That's all well and good with a PC where you can upgrade the hard drive when it's getting close to full, which isn't really an option with an Xbox One - pulling apart your console tends to void the warranty and, for a dynasty of consoles infamous for exploding and needing to be fixed, that's not really something you can risk. Considering a downloaded game can take up to roughly 50GB of space and the Xbox One's 500GB of hard drive space, that really doesn't cut it. With a couple of games and concurrent save files and extra features that's gonna get full up pretty quickly, and honestly, Cloud storage isn't much help either. What if you're not online? What if you've got an unreliable connection? What if that gets filled up as well? The new versions of the console are going to give you the option of upgrading the hard drive size, but the make of drives you can use is fairly limited. So look at it this way: it's an extra mini-game built into your console! Like the inventory system of the early Resident Evil games where you have to make tough decisions about what you keep, and what you can live without. You're never gonna play FIFA 14 again now 15's out, are you?