HOURS SPENT
GAMING PER DAY
COMPUTER ONLY
28%
NO MAT TER THE PLATFORM,
GAMERS ALL HAVE ONE COMMON ISSUE,
THE NEED FOR MORE STORAGE.
PLAYSTATIONTM 4
ONLY
13%
XBOX ONETM
ONLY
6%
TOTAL
COMPUTER
78%
24%
17%
9%
TOTAL
XBOX ONETM
36%
TOTAL
PLAYSTATIONTM 457%
3%
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Source: WDC commissioned research study on “Gaming Storage Research”, conducted in August 2018.
2+ PLATFORMS = 53%
AVERAGE GAME SIZE
~40-80GB
CONSOLE INTERNAL STORAGE
500G - 1TB
AVERAGE GAMES IN L IBRARY
1 .7TB
20 GAMES
LARGESTLIBRARIES
=
1-3 3-5 12+
STORAGE
REQUIREMENTS
GAMING
PLATFORM
USAGE
MAINSTREAM
GAMING
PROFILES
ENTHUSIAST HARDCORE
The average gamer’s estimated total library may be
two to three times larger than their platform’s internal
storage. This is a challenge for gamers when they
need to re-download a game they may have
offloaded due to lack of available storage.
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Console gamers have the largest sized libraries.