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

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

DonFerrari said:

As long as they allow external HDD then they are kinda accepting hybrid, be it either as having 2 internal memories or allowing external where you would transfer saved game to SSD before starting, which is different from regular hybrid and doing cache as far as I know.

Its one thing to support games running off a possibly slower disc in which case its on the user who would notice their games run slower when playing off an external HDD.

Its another thing building in support for a game cache and APIs in their sdk so games fully utilize that feature.

The former is not sony's business. They just make their console and allow gamers install their game on whatever kinda external storage they want to use. The latter is all on sony and is what I am referring to when I say too complicated. Cause it will require having three drives in the console. Disc drive, HDD and nand flash drive.

If you allow running on the external HDD then you already go there on limitating factor.