Should next gen kinda do away DISC DRIVES?

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Intrinsic said:

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. 

Yea but I don't think MS/Sony will care enough about that to do it. I think they would rather have more storage than let developers build games around streaming data, at least for next generation. Cause if they allow external hard drives or replacement hard drives like they have with ps4/x1 and someone puts HDD instead of an SSD, then the games that are built around streaming data will be hit with issues. Sure people could buy external SSDs but I doubt normal people know what a SSD vs a hard drive is. I just think that the advantage of lots of storage for cheap and ease of use when consumers want to add an external hard drive will outweigh the advantages of an SSD. At least for next generation anyway... Specially if MS and Sony wants to head towards the digital route, having lots of space in order to install loads of digital content is a must.

We will see though.