Next Gen Tech (NGT): STORAGE

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Pemalite said:

Except it doesn't.

Because Sata can be used for SSD's and Mechanical Hard Drives, regardless if it is Sata 1 or Sata 3.2.

If it has M.2 they might just use it as a cache drive.

This is a possible compromise they may have to make. I could see early units coming with something like a 4GB SATA 3 HDD and an 256GB M.2 Chip, both user upgradeable. By the time the PS5 slim arrives, they could drop the SATA bay, and just offer an 8TB M.2 chip for the same price.

If they went this route everything would be developed around the M.2 speeds, with the HDD loading everything to the M.2 drive before executing. They would need some smart storage tech to handle all of the transfering. Probably keep the start up data for around 5 games, and leave the rest of the drive open to grab the full files once a game is selected.

Anyway we cut it, a true next gen console needs an absolute minimum of an 8x increase in CPU + GPU, RAM Size and Speed, and Storage Size and Speed. For a true next gen expereince, and not just a 4K PS4/XBO expereince we have to have Solid State Storage in one way or another. If large size Solid State drives are to expensive at launch, this may be the way they have to go. As I said earlier, another gen built around the limitations of a 2.5" HDD is basically a death sentence for consoles. Everything will come with SSD by 2022, meaning stuff like Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV could become much better gaming machines than PS5/XBO. Sony definitly is not going to risk the PlayStation brand on an underwhelming PS5.