XCloud or Stadia?

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gergroy said:

RolStoppable said:

Microsoft isn't switching to an SSD. Their new console will have an HDD as usual. What the SSD is about is support for the RAM, because an SSD is cheaper than RAM. The SSD will be used to temporarily hold data for the game you are playing in order to reduce loading times, so the SSD capacity should be in the range of 32-64 GB at most. Perhaps more if Microsoft expects games to need more toward the end of the generation.

No, I’m pretty sure they are going to use an ssd as their main storage.  They just also talked about using it as virtual ram as well.  With their focus being on reducing load times and the fact that Sony has already come out and said they are going to be using an ssd, it wouldn’t make sense for them to use a normal hard drive.  I admit that their phrasing was vague enough that I could be wrong, I’m guessing that is a very small chance.  

They won't. Just like the PS5 they will only use the SSD to cache things. The main storage of minimum 1TB will still be an HDD. It's not feasible yet for consoles to include 1TB+ SSDs for everything.