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PS5 has 664 GB usable storage, Astro's Playroom 2,4 GB

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MrBenchmark

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I'm honestly surprised at how many people don't get the price of high speed NVME drives. Where have you been? Obviously not on a gaming PC.
You want speed but are pearl clutching the price of said speed.
What did you expect?
That since it's for consoles it would magically be cheaper than it is in PC.
 
Kyoufu

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Josh378 said:
Well Damn, when trying to install games on your system you're going to have to make a hard decision which games you want to keep on the storage.
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Your most cost effective solution is to get an external drive (preferably SATA SSD) and then use that as cold storage for next gen games. Transfer times will be pretty quick.

Eventually the Samsung M.2 drives will fall in price.
 
Eeyore

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dep9000 said:
But tax differs by state, county, city. It's not realistic
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We live in a world where you can talk to someone on a wireless device from thousands of miles away. Of course it's realistic. There just isn't any money in it. Just like there isn't any money about being transparent about shit like this.
 

Raigor

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People should not buy any drives now, wait for Sony's list of certified drivers before buying something.

And everything with less than 5.5 gb/s is not going to work.
 
Eeyore

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Raigor said:
People should not buy any drives now, wait for Sony's list of certified drivers before buying something.

And everything with less than 5.5 gb/s is not going to work.
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I would say go for external SSDs rather than the few drives that are fast enough to qualify. They'll be way less and give people time if the storage is really an issue.
 

dep9000

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Eeyore said:
We live in a world where you can talk to someone on a wireless device from thousands of miles away. Of course it's realistic. There just isn't any money in it. Just like there isn't any money about being transparent about shit like this.
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No it's not realistic. You want companies to make ads targeted at the city/ county level? Way too expensive and impractical
 
Dphex

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MrBenchmark said:
I'm honestly surprised at how many people don't get the price of high speed NVME drives. Where have you been? Obviously not on a gaming PC.
You want speed but are pearl clutching the price of said speed.
What did you expect?
That since it's for consoles it would magically be cheaper than it is in PC.
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Again, i think most people expected a 1TB SSD minus the OS=8XX GB and not a 825GB SSD minus the OS= 664GB

most people just didn´t or still don´t know that it is only a 825GB drive.
 

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Dphex said:
Again, i think most people expected a 1TB SSD minus the OS=8XX GB and not a 825GB SSD minus the OS= 664GB

most people just didn´t or still don´t know that it is only a 825GB drive.
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Cerny told us in March that its 12 x 64GB chips. 12 x 64 = 768GB before the OS. Can't be helped if people don't listen or don't understand.
 
MrBenchmark

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Dphex said:
Again, i think most people expected a 1TB SSD minus the OS=8XX GB and not a 825GB SSD minus the OS= 664GB

most people just didn´t or still don´t know that it is only a 825GB drive.
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I guess it could have been misunderstood. I feel bad for people with slow internet and bandwidth caps.
I personally have gigabit internet with no cap. I have been data managing installs for a while in pc with a huge steam library but it's easy with my setup obviously.
Everyone should sit tight on purchasing anything the extra storage will get cheap thru mass adoption across pc and consoles now.
 
Cripterion

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Technesis said:
Discs are still installed to drives though ? What difference does it make ? Going digital means you don't have change discs everytime. The install size remains the same.
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Tora said:
You paid 399 for this and you're still complaining? fuck me
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I mean they can fucking increase the disk size is the point? We're in 2020 where games can clock a 100GB so having 664 file size available on day one is plain shitty.
 
zombiejames

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Dphex said:
Again, i think most people expected a 1TB SSD minus the OS=8XX GB and not a 825GB SSD minus the OS= 664GB

most people just didn´t or still don´t know that it is only a 825GB drive.
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It was made very clear in March that it's an 825GB SSD.

It's both funny and sad how a lot of "unknowns" or "concerns" lately have already been addressed seven months ago.
 
Rex1157

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There's a mouse cursor on the bottom right. Alot of signs that this is a fake that people are sadly running with.
 
Lunchbox

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Storage is absolutely the reason I'm not grabbing a PS5 right away, will need a 2 TB at least in addition to the external.
 
reclaimerzzzzz

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Dphex said:
Again, i think most people expected a 1TB SSD minus the OS=8XX GB and not a 825GB SSD minus the OS= 664GB

most people just didn´t or still don´t know that it is only a 825GB drive.
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Why make that assumption when literally no tech company advertises the useable space but the total available space on drives? Also, why would Sony buck that trend now? If 825GB was the useable space they would have say so.
I'm ignoring the fact that a calculation was given for how they arrived at 825GB.
 
TechnicPuppet

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Eeyore said:
We live in a world where you can talk to someone on a wireless device from thousands of miles away. Of course it's realistic. There just isn't any money in it. Just like there isn't any money about being transparent about shit like this.
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So, you don't want transparency? It's almost like you speak on behalf of a company rather than yourself.
 

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Lunchbox said:
Storage is absolutely the reason I'm not grabbing a PS5 right away, will need a 2 TB at least in addition to the external.
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They won't release a 2tb. The next model will be 1650gb and it won't be out for years.

It has expandable storage so I'm not sure why you wouldn't get one and slot in an additional SSD next year when their are an abundance of them on the market.
 
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Skeff said:
They won't release a 2tb. The next model will be 1650gb and it won't be out for years.

It has expandable storage so I'm not sure why you wouldn't get one and slot in an additional SSD next year when their are an abundance of them on the market.
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I can wait years.
 

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Some people here need to think that, to consumers, a new 1 TB NVMe at PS5 spec costs around 200 euros. Sony is selling the whole PS5 + controller starting at 400. Considering the hardware you're getting for that price, it's a very respectable storage amount.

You might want to start thinking about your preferred cold storage options. They can be very cheap, and if you don't really need 10 AAA games installed at all times, you won't need one anyway.
 
Jolkien

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I assume why storage space is an issue for most people is due to bandwith restriction ? Like realistically how many active do you have to keep in your rotation to fill up 665GB worth of games ? I have about 300 GB taken for my PS4 Pro and don't go over when I plat or finish something I delete it and move on. I do hjave unlimited bandwith though and I) know not everybody have access to it.
 
oneils

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Was expected.

But it makes things a bit tight considering the games I like to play on console. However, I think ps5 will mainly just be a demon's souls machine for me. So I'm probably good to go.
 
SapientWolf

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Ideally you could dump games into a separate portable HDD and swap them around remotely. Otherwise, the dreams of an instant on gaming console are shattered unless you only need to access a relatively small gaming library. And the problem is only magnified in the digital only version.
 
Cripterion

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Apath said:
If they increase the SSD size, the console will cost more. What's wrong with a relatively low entry price and then buying the additional space yourself?
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That's fine and dandy but unlike the Xbox Series, there's a serious lack of info on the storage expansion. People still wondering what SSD's fit the bill, will they have proprietary stuff like MS, etc...
 
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SapientWolf said:
Ideally you could dump games into a separate portable HDD and swap them around remotely. Otherwise, the dreams of an instant on gaming console are shattered unless you only need to access a relatively small gaming library. And the problem is only magnified in the digital only version.
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There is no difference between the digital and physical version besides an optical disc drive. They both play games off of the internal ssd.
 
metalslimer

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Hoping Sony doesn't do proprietary stuff here. I'm willing to live with this storage until the cost of more of it comes down, but I don't want to pay half the price of the console to increase it.
 

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Rook said:
I can sense that there will be a lot of knee-jerk reactions in this thread.

Before you post, remember that PS5 games won't necessarily be larger than PS4 games due to reduced need for asset duplication.
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Can we stop with this? Demon Souls is 66 GB and Miles Morales is 50 GB. Games will continue to be big.
 
ghostcrew

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Josh378 said:
Looks like a 2TB expansion drive will suffice for the PS5. But I am not paying $200 for that type of space (looking at you MS)
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You're gonna struggle to find even 1TB for $200 any time soon. Prices will go down if you're willing to wait but, for the immediate future, you're not getting off-the-shelf storage that's compatible with the PS5 for meaningfully cheaper than that pricey Xbox expansion.
 
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