My PS3 has a 160GB hard drive. I've had it for about a year, and played a lot of games. When I checked it's storage, it says 77GB free out of 149GB. I was aware that I had downloaded and installed a lot of games, and had lots of saves, so I went and cleared all the saves of the games I don't really play, and deleted my previous Skyrim saves, leaving the future save. I know Skyrim saves take up to 4000 megabytes, so once I cleared all of this crap out of my system, I thought I would check the storage. 94GB remaining.
My question is: what could be taking up the rest of the memory? I had some saves left on my system like MW3, Black Ops, Skyrim, Mafia 2, AC3. I deleted all my other AC:R, AC:BH, AC1 saves, but I thought they wouldn't take up another 40GB! What's using up all this space?
Best Answer
The PS3 storage is taken up mostly by downloaded games and locally stored game data, usually DLC and installations.
To check if you have space taken up by game data, go to the Game category on the XMB and scroll to Game Data Utility, inside it you'll find space taken up by games, when you're finished with a game, it's safe to delete its Game Data (this wont affect its save), these can take up to a few GBs for a single game, so deleting game data usually frees up a lot of space.