Eli5. TB vs GB and why does it matter on a PS game console?

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Hello there! Just a Mom trying to familiarize myself with gaming basics for the sole purpose of buying a birthday gift for my boy who will not be expecting it.
I just need a little help with this part because it’s a lot to wrap my brain around.
Does it matter TB to GB when it comes to the gaming console?
TIA

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‘bytes’ are a measure of how much storage any kind of electronic device has. They work similar to regular numbers, where kilo- is a thousand, mega- is a million, etc.

‘GB’ is a ‘gigabyte’. TB is a ‘terabyte’. One terabyte is equal to 1000 gigabytes.

1 TB = 1000 GB.

Most console games these days can reach around 50 GB, which means a 1 TB game console will be able to store around 20 games before it runs out of space. Some games can be as big as 100 GB.

It’s honestly probably better to get the terabyte version, because games are only getting larger and larger. Just a few big downloads will use up almost all of console’s storage if you get, say, a 500 GB model.

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