Why does my ps3 say 149gb

What's taking up so much space? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 5 months ago. Active 6 years, 3 months ago. Viewed 82k times. Improve this question. Frank Oliver Tighe Oliver Tighe 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 10 10 bronze badges. I'm fairly certain he means that since he is talking about downloading games and the space required for each.

Would be interesting to see a game require 14gb of RAM :P — leety. It's a common misconception to confuse memory with hard drive space. Non-techies really don't know the difference. It's all storage of one sort or another at the end of the day so it's easy to see the source of the confusion.

Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. JohnoBoy JohnoBoy Installing game data would be the primary cause. It's surprising to see the number of people who think game saves take up a significant chunk of space.

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User Info: KabtheMentat. Well, I think my only had like of usable space. That's just how it is with harddrives. Someone that knows more about what's actually using that space can tell you better than me.

Laugh at how dark it can get in this place, as if you're eatin' the soul of a demon for strength. User Info: AvantgardeAClue. I just didn't know if a full format would somehow free up space, but 30GB of missing data seems like an awful lot. I know that GB is not the exact amount on the drive, but in theory there is still a ton of space missing.

I would find it hard to believe that firmware updates would eat up close to 30GB. User Info: Xechs. So larger your harddrive the bigger the GB missing. Also GB advertised only works out a GB actual. User Info: zaingasm. The OS needs to be on the hard drive also, along with all the updates.

Switch FC Pawn: Kazuma. There is also an issue with my trophies not loading on this system. It takes an extremely long time for the sync to occur and sometimes if I exit out it will show my trophy list, but now it just said I have no trophies.

I don't know if this firmware is messed up or what. I have the latest version installed. Xechs posted Thank you for that clarification.