If you are getting them down the line, then even if they gave you the desired room you'd be waiting because you'd have to pay an even prettier peny due to the increase to the BOM that expensive storage would add.
We already know theyre not. Aftermarket pc nvme drives will work, just waiting on them to detail which ones will be officially compatible at release (the samsung 980pro and equivalents)
They'll probably be expensive for the first year but this time next year you'll prob be able to get a 1tb expansion nvme for like $120-150
I think it's your avatar. It makes me think your evil. I'm easily led. Did you choose it or fall guilty to the mods like I did?
Yeah im baffled at the amount of people here who dont know how HDD/SDD work.
Its never 1:1 and the OS needs some space. Like what the fuck did people expect???
That would actually be alright with me. I'm more disappointed because Microsoft has been relatively clear about their console features, while Sony has had this patchwork about sometimes mixed and confusing messages, and sometimes absolute silence on others. When you look at the Xbox Series S and the PlayStation 5, the compromises are a harder pill to swallow given the price of the disc version and the feature set. With the rather embarrassing BC situation, the SSD storage space, graphical power spec comparison, and others look like more compromises from Sony. The fact that Sony has given little about what their "quick resume" equivalent is tells me they have little in way of comparison.
What did people expect? We've moved from some of the slowest cheapest laptop grade HDDs to the absolute state of the art SSD tech. The idea that storage space would go from 500gb in the PS4/XB1 to 2TB in the PS5/XSX without the cost of the console going over £600 is a fantasy. I'm happy with this over these consoles having slow 2TB HDDs instead, I would hope most people would be too...
It's just the price we gotta pay, give it 18-24 months and the expansion SSDs should be a more reasonable price. We all just gotta suffer a little bit till then.
It's just the price we gotta pay, give it 18-24 months and the expansion SSDs should be a more reasonable price. We all just gotta suffer a little bit till then.
Anyone seeking to get PS5 expanded storage should just wait. Sony is meant to drop a list of supported NVMe drives and probably recommended USB 3.1 drives id imagine, so hold fire as SSD prices are also meant to be dropping soon, or dropped
Do we even know if this is real? I mean everyone expected there to be less available space to store games than 825gb. I feel we are beyond the point of thinking 825 gb would be available, but everything else around the UI and even the available space could have been a guess.
This is fucking awful.
People won't have a choice. Those with data caps or slow internet speeds will be impacted fairly quickly by this. Awful.
Oh god... I totally forgot about that...
I REALLY hope they fixed that because that is THE MOST annoying shit. I can redownload pretty quick since I have 1GB internet, but imagine not having good internet and constantly dealing with that. Oooof.
Yea, Cerny said it at the beginning of the year that they don't have to hold space like they had to on the PS4
I have an external 4TB HDD for my ps4. Will this work for PS5 for my PS4 games? I know it won't give me fast load times like an SSD.
damn PS5 keeps getting more expensive in the long run, im going to cancel or give away my preorder
No, you add another. You can't replace the original storage.
Yes, you can store PS5 games. And you can also store and play PS4 games directly from it.
im mentally preparing myself for the inevitable gta 6 to be a 1tb in size now.
gonna need expansions, no matter the system. :(
gonna need expansions, no matter the system. :(
Can we expect them to release 2-4 TB SSDs, even if they will be more expensive? Or will 1 TB alone be the standard until they do more internal memory?
It's additive. Chances are the 825GB is literally on the motherboard and non-removable.
DrDeckard is really hoping one of these days that his concern posts actually go his way.
Yeah around this time next year when Samsung updates this new line of NVMEs there will probably be 2-3 or 4tb options available on the higher end
I'm gonna wait until a 2tb hits for $200-250
Sony never advertised a 1tb SSD for PS5. It's always been 825gb
Have they detailed this? Is it a slot in the front or back or internal behind a hatch etc?
I wouldn't have expected the OS to use less than 100GB so this isn't really surprising at all. There'll be reservations for recordings, virtual memory allocation, etc.
Non-proprietary storage is (thankfully) supported, so there'll be lots of options on the open market over time, depending on how much you want to spend.
Non-proprietary storage is (thankfully) supported, so there'll be lots of options on the open market over time, depending on how much you want to spend.
I think Sony is going for super fast boot into game rather than suspending games. That is why they are talking about exposing game menu directly in the OS UI so you can launch directly into specific parts of a game quickly. I don't think PS5 will have quick resume for multiple games, at least at launch. They could add it later.
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It's not great but I will not complain about getting an SSD of those sizes in a console for a good price at this moment in time. Yeah, the Playstation ultra fast custom option is a little less than the Series X, that's unfortunate but if it does new cool things, I can accept the modest capacity in 2020.
If neither console is up to your storage level, just wait and get 2TB versions down the line at some point or look at other storage options as a crutch on a bargain for the time being. We are getting super fast SSD in consoles people!
If neither console is up to your storage level, just wait and get 2TB versions down the line at some point or look at other storage options as a crutch on a bargain for the time being. We are getting super fast SSD in consoles people!
Looks like it might be on the bottom of the console, just an expansion slot that opens up.
Bet we will get a blog post with instructions and certified drives around launch
Spider-Man Remastered is arouns 65gb, Destruction All-Stars is around 25gb. So it varies a lot depending on the type of game. Maybe a super detailed open world game like the next GTA could push 100gb but wouldn't expect much more than 50-60gb for typical big games. Who the eff knows about Call of Duty though.
No, you will be able to use off the shelf 3rd party SSDs, so long as they're faster than what the PS5 has.
there isn't a set standard for sizes of SSD's is there - also some come with there own cooling and other variables. That would be my major advice before buying anything as it all depends on what Sony offer as a slot what will be compatible.
That works, getting nostalgic from dealing with expansions on the Amiga ;)