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[LegendOfKage]

The other day I cleared up about 20 GB worth of space. Today I turn on my console and I'm down to 5 GB left! But if it's not new game downloads, or new saved games, or game recordings, that just leaves "other."

According to the console, "other" is reserved for system data needed for games and apps to work properly, and apparently fluctuates in size based on "how your console is being used."

Well, that's not a very useful description. Does anyone else here have a better understanding of what "other" includes, and what type of console usage will make it go up or down in size?

 

[Topher]

The other day I cleared up about 20 GB worth of space. Today I turn on my console and I'm down to 5 GB left! But if it's not new game downloads, or new saved games, or game recordings, that just leaves "other."

According to the console, "other" is reserved for system data needed for games and apps to work properly, and apparently fluctuates in size based on "how your console is being used."

Well, that's not a very useful description. Does anyone else here have a better understanding of what "other" includes, and what type of console usage will make it go up or down in size?

This is saying it is somehow related to last gen games?

How to Remove Other Storage Space from PS5

Reducing the space reserved on your PlayStation 5

www.pushsquare.com

 

[adamsapple]

This is saying it is somehow related to last gen games?

How to Remove Other Storage Space from PS5

Reducing the space reserved on your PlayStation 5

www.pushsquare.com

Seems like it

The PS5's Confusing 'Other' Storage Leaves Users Less Room For Games

Games are getting bigger, and yet the new Xbox and PlayStation consoles don’t offer a whole lot of room.

kotaku.com

Some coverage of this issue has included reports that downloading PlayStation 4 games causes Other to grow. In our testing, backward-compatible PS4 games used up far more space in Other than native PS5 games do. That space was in addition to the space they took in “Games and Apps.” To quantify things, PS4 games appear to demand anywhere from 15 to 25 percent extra storage space in Other beyond what’s listed on paper as the official. Some examples:

• Downloading God of War, a 45GB PS4 game, caused my Other storage to swell by 9GB.
• Moving the 61GB PS4 game Doom Eternal from an external hard-drive to my PS5’s internal solid-state drive increased the Other line by 12GB.
• Deleting Marvel’s Avengers’ 61GB of spandex-wrapped PS4 loot grind shrunk my Other by 11GB.
• When Kotaku EIC Stephen Totilo deleted the 75GB PS4 game Ghost Recon Breakpoint from his PS5, the Other field shrunk by 15GB.
• Similar ratios resulted for other PS4 games on both of our consoles—including Star Wars: Squadrons, Persona 5, Ghostrunner, Cities: Skylines, Genshin Impact, Doom Eternal, Ghost of Tsushima, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt—whether they were added or cut.

Deleting or re-downloading PS5 games did not have the same impact on Other.

LegendOfKage

If you have an external USB HDD, transfer your PS4 content to that instead of keeping it on your main storage, I guess.

 

[LegendOfKage]

Very good to know! Hopefully this thread will help others who didn't understand this either. Thank you both.