| 0815user said: since every game gets patched these days, i don't mind a driveless next gen console because i already switched to completely digital with ps4pro anyway. an option to store the finalized game with all the patches and dlcs to some sort of plug and play memory card would be nice though. |
Technically, that plug and play memory card is an internal drive. Funny interesting fact, a 2280 NVMe SSD is probably 10 times smaller than the carts of old.
The only real issue with a driverless console, is that it will be abused by publishers. If publishers know that buying a drive for your console is now an add on, they would just take advantage of that to not release their games on disc. rather, a "disc version" of the game will become something you only see from publishers only afer they have sold like 3-5M copies of their game digitally. So you may not see the disc version for at least 6-9 months after the game was released digitally.
For them, there are lots of benefits to doing that; 1) not having to worry about piracy 2) not having to worry about the used game market 3) lower cost to publish a game....etc.
