The PlayStation 5 is a powerful gaming console with impressive hardware capabilities, including a custom SSD designed for fast load times and a significant storage capacity. However, the actual number of games you can download onto your PS5 is determined by several factors, primarily the available storage upgrade space and the size of the games you wish to install.
Sony has enabled support for compatible M.2 SSDs that can be installed internally, significantly expanding storage. These drives can match or even exceed the speed of the PS5’s internal SSD, providing seamless gameplay experiences for PS5 titles. Adding a 1 TB M.2 SSD, for example, could give you roughly another 1000 GB of space, allowing you to install many more games.
Game Sizes
Game sizes on the PS5 can vary widely, influenced by the complexity, graphics, and additional content such as downloadable expansions or updates. Here’s a general breakdown:
Indie Games and Smaller Titles: These games typically have a much smaller footprint. Indie games, for instance, can range from a few hundred megabytes to around 10 GB.
Medium-sized Games: Games like “Spider-Man: Miles Morales” or “Demon’s Souls” often range from 30 GB to 50 GB.
AAA Titles: High-budget, feature-rich games like “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II” or “Cyberpunk 2077” can be quite large. It’s not uncommon for such games to range between 50 GB to over 100 GB.
This storage review compares the storage capacity of 1TB, 2TB and 4TB for the PS5. The PS5’s built-in 1TB SSD should easily fit 12 games with around 25GB of free space, while a Corsair MP600 SSDs 1TB expansion should allow for 20 more games, totaling 32 games.
A 2TB SSD upgrade should provide enough space for around 53 games, including popular titles and a variety of others. With a 4TB SSD, which is almost as expensive as a PlayStation 5 console, you should be able to fit an additional 40 plus medium sized games, reaching a total of 96 games. This could prove to be very time consuming and probably overkill for most gamers.
External Storage Options
To maximize game storage, the PS5 supports external USB drives for playing PS4 games and archiving PS5 games. You can’t play PS5 games directly from an external drive. You can’t play them because PS5 games are built to leverage the PS5’s exceptionally fast internal SSD, and no external disk, even an SSD, can equal that speed over USB. However you can transfer them back and forth as needed, which is faster than re-downloading. By leveraging external storage for games and using a compatible M.2 SSD for additional PS5 game storage, you can significantly increase this capacity, ensuring you have plenty of room for your gaming library.
Recommended Storage for PS5 Upgrade : Corsair MP600 SSD
