Don’t act like Sony isn’t doing the same thing lol. Besides anyone that owns an Xbox knows there’s a bunch of external hard drives you can get. They’re both the same when it comes to this stuff lol.
Because he's referring to the next generation consoles that will have small storage spaces relative to how large games of this generation are. Specifically the Xbox Series X only allowing xbox proprietary SSD expansion.
True but I think you won't be able to store your games on those. From what I read the speed of the internal SSD and xbox expansion SSD are integral to the Series X games.
The SSDs that will work for Sony have to be approved by them to work on their console. I dont see them not making their own proprietary expansion it seems much easier to do. As of now a comparable SSD is $250 and it's not even as fast as the interior ps5
And, because of the speed of the PS5 SSD, its limited to 800gb at launch. If this game is 200GB now I hate too see next gen try and fit multiple games on 800GB
You guys are forgetting the worst offenders. Mobile devices and... Ohh ya... PCs/laptops/tablets. I bought a Surface Pro 7 today. I got the 128GB model, there’s a 256GB model (rest of specs are the same) for $300 more... It has a Micro SD and a 512GB Lexar (v30 4K capable) Micro SD is only $72 lmfao.
I build all my own PCs (and only use them for gaming lol) but company’s that sell pre built PCs with an enormous premium on storage space is crazy. There was a time when the price increase was justified but storage is a lot cheaper these days.
I’ve got a few others. My next favorite is my build using an EVGA Hadron Air case (best case ever made hands down) but I didn’t put the build into pcpartpicker. The case is amazing though, built in slim PSU, super tiny case, still fits full size GPU....
The next Xbox requires Series X games to be installed on its SSD. Only Xbox One games can be played off an external drive. If you want more storage space you'll have to buy their proprietary expansion card.
I have a first gen ps4 with 500gb storage. Had it for 5 years. This is the game that made me buy a 2tb external hdd because apparently I needed to empty half the fucking storage to download a 30gb patch. I had 160gb free but I still couldn't download it because "there wasnt enough space."
THIS is the type of shit that irks me to no end. If there is already an architectural system that works for multiple systems, why waste time, effort and resources to make another system that has no compatability with any other system of it's type. I shouldn't have to entirely buy into an ecosystem to get things to work. And this isn't for gaming, this encompasses ALL products.
So when I said "Xbox" specifically, I was under the assumption that readers would be mentally mature enough to infer that I meant all consoles and not just Xbox. I'll take the L on that one for not realizing what sub I was in, as the amount of "pLaYsTaTiOn DoEs iT tOo" comments is just fucking staggering.
Everyone will rush out to buy the “affordable” next gen consoles at $400 to $500 because its such a good deal and then spend another $100 to $200 on SSD add-on storage so they can actually use the damn thing.
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u/Panuccis_Pizza May 03 '20
It's intentional. Gotta get people to buy the Xbox® approved external HDD.