PS4: 10 Major Flaws Sony Must Address In 2016

9. Reinstalling Old Games Shouldn't Be A Nightmare

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Now that we're almost three years into the PS4's life-cycle, the console's 500GB storage limit (recently upgraded to 1TB for certain models) is definitely starting to become a problem.

Especially now that games have started to become more and more bloated (and loaded with more and more updates and patches), there's a good chance that you've only got a fraction of your PS4 library installed on your console.

Which would be fine, if it wasn't so frustrating and time-consuming to install older titles and get them playable. Because most saves won't work unless you've also installed all the updates a game has received since its release, it means that gamers are forced to wait until everything is downloaded before they can even think about jumping back into an older game.

And because titles receive more and more updates every year, you're essentially forced to keep some games on your system permanently if you don't want to go through the hassle of re-downloading everything later on down the line.

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