PS4 Model CUH-1200 Released in the West

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darkknightkryta said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

It's the effect of being the market leader. Last generation, when the 360 was kicking the PS3's ass, Sony was killing it with updates, free online, free games with plus, no paywall for anything... it was awesome. Fast forward to 2015 and now it's totally reversed. 

What reason does Sony have to give us a 1TB console? None. Why? Because people are buying the 500GB model.

It'll eventually be cheaper to give a 1TB hd vs a 500gb hd.  It's just that hard drive space increase has slowed down a lot.  That flood in Taiwan a few years ago really slowed things down.  We're a few years behind.

No it's because demand for 2.5 inch HDD's has crashed.  They were becoming very popular in servers a highly profitable area but then SSD's dropped a lot in price and so 2.5" HDD's server market evaporated the same goes with laptops were all the high end models use SSD's while for the lowend even a $1 saving by using a 500GB instead of a 1TB HDD is worth it to the manufacturer.

The only areas left for 2.5" HDD's apart from budget laptops are external HDD's and as part of low cost consumer electronics.