How much DLC have you bought so far?

[Arwin]

I have quite a lot. Will be some work to figure out how much exactly, but I think just SingStar songs alone would fill up the free space on the Wii.

I bought the 360 with 20GB, of which 14GB usable if I remember correctly, and at some point I rammed a USB drive with 16Gb in there (which is all that was supported at the time), and it's doable only because I don't use the 360 a lot, and play very specific games I can only get on 360.

On the PS3, I have two, and games are spread over the 320GB one and the 160GB one. The latter one is already completely full to the point where it's sometimes annoying, but I game much more on the 320GB in the study now, so that's not such a big problem.

I think though that generally, people who bother to buy stuff online, will also bother to add additional storage. So as long as it is fairly easy to add an external harddrive to the Wii, U, that may be enough. After all, the 4GB 360 also exists. The market for people who barely download stuff and buy everything at retail is significant.

Where both Microsoft and Nintendo may run into issues is for Apps and services. But Microsoft is almost ready to go next-gen, so not such a huge issue for them. Nintendo just launched the system, so that may be holding them back in the future. You'd hope they've reserved a lot of the 5GB for future stuff in that respect, and it's not reflective of them actually completely using it up.

And otherwise, they'll just sell official bits of neat little USB storage or small HDD extensions at some point, no doubt.

 

[Nesh]

I can't find any way on the new PSN store to see content one's already purchased!

What do you mean? There is a download history you can access in the very front page that shows everything that was purchased.
Unless I didnt get the question

 

[Sigfried1977]

Bought loads of stuff digitally. Around 250 GB on the PS3 (including the odd retail game here and there, but then those aren't necessarily bigger than some of the downloadable games. I was quite shocked when I found out that the Sly trilogy eats up around 25 GB), the 32 GB PS Vita card is bursting at the seams, and then there's the ever so tempting Steam deals on the PC.

That said, I barely bought any add-on dlc.

 

[BRiT]

What people here in this thread are totally missing or hardly using is movies. I use PS and Xbox to watch them. Often I stream them. But sometimes I preload them and watch the other day. A movie takes up about 4-7gig.

I don't store movies on my XBox, as I have a NAS device with 10TB of BluRay movies that are streamed or played directly by my various client devices.

I truely hope next-gen devices allow for easy upgrades to multiple terabytes of storage.

 

[Rodéric]

No DLC on console ever.

 

[BRiT]

No DLC on console ever.

Is that only because the console(s) you have do not support DLC?

 

[Sigfried1977]

Well, that is exactly what I think. I just wanted to point out that even the HDD resources this gen (320GB PS and 250GB Xbox in my case) won't be enough for next gen.

I hope that I am able to buy all games as downloads in next gen. Steam on PC shows how to do it for years now. And I want to do this without worrying or managing HDD space!

What people here in this thread are totally missing or hardly using is movies. I use PS and Xbox to watch them. Often I stream them. But sometimes I preload them and watch the other day. A movie takes up about 4-7gig.

It is comfortable and a major plus point to not worry about your HDD resources imo.

I don't use my PS3 for movies because both rental fees and purchase prizes are completely outrageous, especially since those movies are just bare-bones releases with no supplemental material or even original language tracks.