So wait, why can't PS4 have external HDD support?

[VanceIX]

RenCutypoison said:

VanceIX said:

RenCutypoison said:
Wouldn't USB bandwith slow the games ?

Not quite. The bitrate for Sata III is 6GB/s while the bitrate for USB 3.0 is 5GB/s. You won't notice much (if any) difference in real life performance for the most part. Both are insanely fast. PS4 actually uses Sata II from what I can tell, which is actually much slower than USB 3.0.

I tought it was still USB 2.0

Power cosumption comes to my mind too, and it would also make piracy easier (Easier than to remove the internal HDD every time you want to add a game)

Nah, the PS4 supports USB 3.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4

Also, power consumption shouldn't be a big problem, since drives are supported anyway right now but only for copying screenshots and videos. Piracy is probably the main reason, but both the Wii U and Xbox One have it and have run into no problems, so I don't see where it could go wrong as long as they keep patching and potentially exploitable code.