New official info on PS5, launching next holiday

[DonFerrari]

EricHiggin said:

Intrinsic said:

Yup... thats not twisting the facts at all.

And thats how misinformation spreads. Don't listen to him.

They aren't "only allowing partial installs"... Partial installs is an optional feature. So you don't have to wait for your whole game to install before you start playing it or even better so you don't have to keep components of a game you aren't playing anymore on your SSD. Its just more granular management. And its good considering a game will take up like 50-100GB. 

And not a chance in hell that a 500GB SKU is an option. Especially when you consider that in 2020 a 1TB SSD will cost them about as much as they paid for a 500GB HDD in 2013.

I didn't take it that way to begin with. Partial installs do make you wonder about how much space there will be available. 500GB does seem like cutting it more than just close, but 1000GB seems a lot like the PS4 500GB launch in terms of file sizes, and that wasn't exactly generous. Next gen game files will be more efficient due to much less duplication of data, but you're still likely going to end up with 75GB-100GB+ files for AAA next gen titles.

thismeintiel said:

Technically, you could do it on PS4.  It would ask you which part of the game you wished to install first when you were downloading a game.  In theory, you could stop the download after it installed either part.  Though, maybe this is going to work on disc games, too.

You've got a point, but who's really going to go to that trouble? I never thought about it until now, and I'd bet the overwhelming majority wouldn't have either. The fact it's mentioned along with the SSD, makes it seem less like a worthy new feature, which it would be, but at least somewhat of a necessity due to what may be seen as a lack of high speed storage. Which may or may not be seen as a problem when gamers actually get their hands on it. We'll see.

Random_Matt said:

You just reminded me of the Vita memory prices, Sony cannot possibly go there again.

Nope, but they could offer upgrades, like memory cards if we go back to the PS2 days. The network/HDD adapter was through PS as well wasn't it? As long as the price was reasonable they could probably sell a worthy amount, but reasonable pricing for accessories or add ons isn't really typical in gaming. Unless they figure you can just wait for the mid gen upgrade with a much larger SSD, or maybe they will drop an SSD upgraded console every other year?

Trumpstyle said:

Did you miss this in the article? "like the PS5, it will ditch the spinning hard drive for a solid-state drive." There is no ANCIENT drive in the next-gen console.

"Right now I believe PS5 will launch Spring 2020 at 399$ with 3,2ghz zen 2 cpu that has 8 core and 16 threads, Navi at 9TF likely vega 56 performance, 12 GB Gddr6 Ram on a 192-bit bus and 1TB NVMe SSD drive." - Trumpstyle on 27 January 2019

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8961611

I called the NVMe drive already in Jan this year we now in November and u still stuck on ancient spinning disc. HDD + SSD combo DOESN'T WORK. I gave up on it a long time ago, I don't know where Vivster and pemalite are now they also been stuck on HDD + SSD combo for long time despite the combo doesn't work.

It could be that the console will have the SSD soldered right to the mobo, and there will be no internal space for an HDD. That way they wouldn't be lying by saying their focused on SSD for next gen. It doesn't mean that you wouldn't be able to plug in an external HDD, so you don't have to delete everything to make new space.

For someone like myself, even a 1000GB SSD, with no other storage back up would suck big time. My 5.0mbps net takes forever sometimes to just download sizable game updates, so even if the optical drive is much faster in terms of transfer speeds, since I would likely have to update again, it could take a long time before I'm gaming. Having an external HDD to hold sections or entire games, plus the updates or DLC, makes a ton of sense to me. A 15 to 20 minute transfer from HDD to SSD would be remarkably faster then waiting hours or until the next day to play something, that I already waited for prior.

I mentioned quite a while ago in another thread, if the PS app could allow you to swap games while away from home, you could have the console transfer game data before you get back so it's ready to go when you arrive.

Don't remember a single PS4 game that the single player you need to wait download of update to start playing.