| Captain_Yuri said: I think it will have a regular hard drive and maybe a Bluray player. I don't see them going with SSDs cause games themselves are requiring more and more storage space. Heck, we have already seen games take up to 120GB of space. Next generation with 4k... I am pretty sure games will take up even more space. So I think Sony/MS would rather have a 2TB-4TB base model hard drive than 500GB-1TB SSD. |
I was thinking the same thing, but going with an SSD offers benefits to the entire development process that using HDDs wouldn't allow. Basically, say they go with an sata SSD as standard in every console, the devs can build their games around straming in data from that drive at at least 350MB/s+. As opposed to being locked down to under 100MB/s. That would mean a lot when you consider games built with 4k assets natively.
As for the size, anything from a 1TB SSD will be fine, possible and most likely probable. In 2020, it wouldn't cost them much more than what it cost them today for a 1TB HDD to put in a 1TB sata SSD. And if the switch is any indication, as long as from day one they offer external HDD support then everyone will be ok. Even if they gave us a 512GB SSD.
| Pyro as Bill said: Carts + m.2 SSD internal >>>>> disks + m.2 SSD internal You need a way to get the game from the store and install to/play on the console. Carts can play at good speeds without installation, you could still install them to SSD for faster speeds. |
Errrrr no man...... thats just not true.
So you feel that a 50GB-100GB cart will cost less or at least the same to make as a 50GB-100GB disk? Thats just not possible.
And then look at the part of your post I bolded. So you know that these discs or carts primarily only serve to get the game from the store into your console, yet you feel they wouldn't go as cheap as they can for whatever does that? We are already at a point where two of the three consoles on the market run games exclusively off the internal hard drive.
