PS4: 10 Features Sony Must Implement In The Next Firmware Update

7. Loading From An External Hard Drive

When consumers ask for 'external hard drive support' they never mean 'to back up my gave saves'. Instead, as the storage that comes with the new consoles can hold what, like eight full games at once? It's prompted both sides of the Microsoft/Sony fence to scream out for other options to store their titles. As the consoles insist on installing everything (and with some games' sizes being 50GB) it's forcing users to look to replacing them with something larger, PC-style, just to keep going. Defenders will cry that you 'can easily' just delete and reinstall titles over and over as you use them, but the point remains you shouldn't have to. The fact Sony added hard drive support but only as a means to back-up your saved data is nigh-on pointless when there's Cloud options out there anyway. Owners need the ability to store games themselves on external drives - even the 360 let you do it under specific formatting and licensing rules - so the fact that the 'all digital generation' doesn't allow it is just baffling.