Anyone who has owned a PlayStation 4 for a while can tell you that the console’s 500GB-to-1TB hard drive doesn’t provide nearly as much storage as expected. While smaller indie titles often take up a few gigabytes, sprawling AAA games can demand more than 50GB of precious hard drive capacity. Unless you buy an external hard drive, you will probably have to delete old games from time to time to make room for new ones. We’ll show you how to delete games on a PS4.
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Don’t worry, though, you can always go back and reinstall deleted games, either from a disc or the PlayStation Network store, without losing any save progress (deleting games only removes the application itself from the hard drive). Here’s how to delete and reinstall PS4 games.
Deleting games in your library
Step 1: Navigate to the icon for the game you wish to delete, either in the quick start main menu or in your library, which is found all the way to the right side of the utility bar on the PS4 home screen.
Step 2: While highlighting the icon, press the Options button on your controller to bring up this menu.
Step 3: Scroll down to Delete, and confirm your selection by pressing OK.
Deleting a game from system storage
If you’re clearing out space, you may want to delete games from the system storage menu itself. The storage menu lists games in size order, making it easier to identify which games are taking up the most space.
Step 1: Navigate to Settings on the home screen.
Step 2: Select Storage.
Step 3: Select System Storage, or Extended Storage, if you have an external hard drive attached to your PS4.
Step 4: Select Applications.
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Step 5: Press options on your controller, then choose Delete.
Step 6: You can select as many games as you want to delete at this time.
Step 7: With the desired boxes checked, choose Delete.
Step 8: Confirm your selections by pressing OK.
Reinstalling games
Step 1: Navigate to the library on the home screen and scroll down to Purchased. If you are looking for a specific PlayStation Plus game, you can find them all by selecting the yellow plus symbol located underneath the Purchased icon.
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Step 2: Games not currently on your hard drive that can be re-downloaded will have a downward arrow in the bottom right-hand corner of their icons.
Step 3: Press X on the game you would like to reinstall and click Download.
Deleting and reinstalling disc-based games
You can follow almost the exact same process to delete and reinstall physical PS4 games. When the PS4 detects a game disc, the data will automatically begin installing: Make sure to remove your game disc from the console before deleting that game. Then, when you want to play it again, simply put the disc back in to reinstall it.
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I have no idea where to post this so I figure this sub is alright. I recently got CoD WWII and was trying to download it but every time I try it starts to copy a 9Gb Version 1.00 update. It gets to 2 minutes left and completely stops the copying and says it’s ready to install but the icon has a paused download bar on it. When I click it it won’t start the game or take me to a download screen and refuses to do anything. It keeps doing this every time I delete it and try again. I’ve even tried to ‘Rebuild Database’ from Safe Mode.
Any help at all would be appreciated. I really want to play this game...
EDIT: I have plenty storage too. Forgot to mention
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EDIT 2: Thanks for all your help guys! Went to sleep and woke up to the game working somehow soooo idk what happened.
