Rumor: PS5 announcement coming mid 2019 and more info at PSX 2019

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Intrinsic said:

Mr Puggsly said:

A 1TB HDD is more like $40 on Amazon. $60 should get you 2TB.

But MS and Sony are opting for the 1TB even in their premium consoles. That leads me to believe they will go for whatever the cheaper option is and if they want to go up to 2TB they will lean on a standard HDD.

Nope.... a 1TB is exactly $57 on amazon. Cheapest I saw.

And media jargon aside..... the Pro and the X are not "premium" consoles. They are just what building a $399 and $499 console in 2016 and 2017 respectively would have looked like. Probably the exact same BOM and definately even cheaper with the Pro. In 2013 ~$30 would have got them 500GB, in 2016 it would get them 1TB. Simple as that.

And that cheaper option thing is only if capacity is the driving factor to their storage choice. I don't think it will be. It just can't be. In 2020 using a HDD is like building in a limitation into the console that will define them for the rest of that generation. You think loading times are bad now when only filling 5GB or RAM? How do you think it will be when filling 16-20GB of RAM using a HDD? It aso affects how developers can build their games.

Just stop thinking a 2TB and instead focus on the fact that they have a "storage" budget of around $40. In 2020 $40 will probably be able to get a 2TB HDD but it will also be able to get a 1TB SSD. I believe they would go the SSD route. The ONLY thing using a HDD has got going for it is capacity. And thats a silly thing to focus on if building something that will last for the next 7yrs. Keep in mind... the nintendo switch launched with 32GB of storage....... but out the box they talked up expandable storage and external HDD support.

Storage Capacity with SSD will be a short term issue. By the mid way point of next gen you will be able to get SSD's with twice the storage, at half the cost of a HDD. We'll be looking at 32, 64, & 128TB SSD's later in next gen, while 2.5"drives will not be progressing much further.

You are completely spot on though. PS5 has to have an M.2 NVMe slot. Thry can ship with built in storage and a user upgradable M.2 NVMe slot, or just let users swap out the NVMe stick.

I don't see a need for external drives late next gen as look internal SSD's will offer more than enough space for 100's of titles.