Same price, less storage. Shrinkflation at its finest.
Sony plans to release a new PS5 Slim All-Digital console with an 825GB SSD, reducing storage from the previous 1TB to optimize production costs amid rising expenses. The PS5 Slim Standard with a disc drive will retain the 1TB SSD, and the updated model is expected to launch in Europe first.
Digital only with reduced space? What’s the worst that could happen? 🤔
“Buy a bigger SSD!”
I guess just be glad they’re not pulling a Microsoft where you’d have to buy a propriety NVMe drive.
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You referring to the expansion drives that slot in the back and are hotswappable? Most expensive storage medium I’ve ever bought. Problem was, there was no alternative… Internal storage ignored, ofc
You always were able to use a standard external drive. Yeah, the speed was slower, but you weren’t forced to buy the expansion card.
Current gen games can’t be played from standard external storage. You could put the game there, but it would have to be moved to internal memory to play it.
BC games would work fine, but not current gen.
Applies to both PS5 and Xbox both.
Are you able to expand the PS5’s storage with just a normal USB 3.0 drive?
Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.
You can, but you can’t play games from it, it would be storage only. You’d have to move it to internal memory to play it.
Okay, so isn’t that exactly the same situation as the Xbox, but then the Xbox gives you the additional option to actually expand the hot storage?
Yup. On the PS5, you can add standard M2 storage to increase the usable internal space.
On the Xbox you have to use the Seagate or WD plug.
its weird cause the UHD player is probably what i use the most on my PS5
Oh no, the SSD is soldered to the motherboard.
Though this is probably unlikely, I wouldn’t actually be surprised.
No, the PS5 has a standard expansion slot.