PS5 Coming at the End of 2020 According to Analyst: High-Spec Hardware for Under $500

[DonFerrari]

Intrinsic said:

DonFerrari said:

I would remove the touchpad, it is hardly used and in a position you won't do anything without being harder on holding the controller. The lightbar is also unnecessary.

 

They could even have one specific small nand or any other fast memory specific to have the OS plus its dedicated RAM. Then the hybrid HDD would be a good thing for the rest.

Much more likely than having a single SKU at 499 imho.

 

1. I doubt they can remove the light bar now as that will break functionality with VR games. Same thin with the touch pad as there are a good number of games that support it on some level. If anything its more likely that its made into some sort of touch screen. 
   We don't know what they are making for PS5, why would they need lightbar? On PS4 I totally agree they can't remove both (well they could, just would need to advise it may not work with all games), but on PS5 they can make the control totally different and VR wouldn't need to be affected because of it.
2. As fr the storage thing its really not a complicated issue. Just price prohibitive. But certain boxes must be checked.
   
   Firstly, every sku must support it so devs can build their games knowing that is what everyone has. Funny thing about this is that it actually means its a bad idea to put in a 2.5" SSD. Why? Cause that will mean you also make the SSD non upgradeable unless specifying that you can only use SSDs. You dont want someone in to put in a 4TB HDD in there and breaking performance. 
   
   If being forward thinking and ideally its better to have like 240GB cache SSD embedded on the PCB then still have a normal 2.5" 2TB drive knowing that as nand flash prices drop they can ultimately take out the HDD and only have an SSD.
   
   I just feel they have t do something. Load times was one of the reasons HDDs even started being mandatory in these consoles and now games pretty much run entirely off the HDD. We are at the point now where the HDD of choice used since 2001 just isnt good enough on its own. 

I do agree that we can see some improvement on the storage area, although I don't really worry to much about loading time, much better than it was during PS3 and the sleep function is very good since I usually only play one game at a time (although cold start is good for me because light here drops everyday so I need to start console everyday).