Day Zero Obsolescence
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Sony confirms the PS5 won’t support SSD storage expansion at launch
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Blazing-fast storage but not a lot — and you’ll have to wait to add more.
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All because Sony wanted their
storage solution and any regular M.2 must be equally fast to said solution. Why not just do a full Microsoft and do their own storage expansion cards, then? They already did for the PS Vita...
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I was shocked how easy it was to upgrade my PS4 HDD. Like, it was a sliding compartment and one oversized screw.
I can wait a while to upgrade it, if I ever do. It's 80% of a terabyte out of the box. I'm
that they're calling that small.
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@error said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
I was shocked how easy it was to upgrade my PS4 HDD. Like, it was a sliding compartment and one oversized screw.
IIRC it's about the same on PS3.
I remember back with the original XBox 360, they had proprietary drive enclosures, but someone discovered that you could get a specific model of laptop drive and flash it with Special Blessed Firmware that, tldr, let you hack together a cheap 120 GB hard drive module.
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@error said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
It's 80% of a terabyte out of the box. I'm
that they're calling that small.It's apparently more like 660GB useable. Which yeah, used to be a lot but games now can be massive.
COD:Black Ops Cold War takes 133GB on PS5 - 40GB more than on PS4. Demon's Souls is 66GB. That's 200GB gone with just 2 games.
Hopefully the update retardery from the PS4 isn't carried over where updates need effectively enough space to install the game twice.
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@loopback0 said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
@error said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
It's 80% of a terabyte out of the box. I'm that they're calling that small.It's apparently more like 660GB useable. Which yeah, used to be a lot but games now can be massive.
COD:Black Ops Cold War takes 133GB on PS5 - 40GB more than on PS4. Demon's Souls is 66GB. That's 200GB gone with just 2 games.
Hopefully the update retardery from the PS4 isn't carried over where updates need effectively enough space to install the game twice.
One would hope the missing 140GB from the useable space accounts for that.
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@izzion One would also have hoped the storage was expandable from day one, but here we are.
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So, you can have maybe a half dozen full-size (non-Indie) games installed at once. The rest are in the cloud (or on disc, if you're
) and can be installed on-demand. I'm still not really seeing a problem. In general I'm only playing a few specific games in any given time period.
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@error said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
can be installed on-demand
That'd be fine if everyone had gigabit Internet without data caps... which most people don't.
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@lolwhat I guess I need to check my privilege.
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@hungrier said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
@error said in Day Zero Obsolescence:
I was shocked how easy it was to upgrade my PS4 HDD. Like, it was a sliding compartment and one oversized screw.
IIRC it's about the same on PS3.
I remember back with the original XBox 360, they had proprietary drive enclosures, but someone discovered that you could get a specific model of laptop drive and flash it with Special Blessed Firmware that, tldr, let you hack together a cheap 120 GB hard drive module.
Yes, Western Digital Blue drives, I have one myself, actually.
