shikamaru317 said:
I believe it was digital foundry who speculated that Series X will have a special cartridge slot on the back, which would allow you to buy special SSD cartridges that could plug into an extra PCI express slot on the back. I hope that is true, it would be nice to have upgrade-able storage, those 1 TB drives that it will come with will fill up pretty quickly when we already have some current gen games like RDR2 that are over 100 GB. I suspect the average AAA game size to go from about 30-40 GB this gen to about 60-70 GB personally, with some well over 100 GB. And using a USB 3.0 based external hard drive would kill load times and affect game performance, giving you texture pop-in issues and such. Even USB 3.2 isn't fast enough to not handicap an NVMe SSD, I think 3.2 is only 2500 MB/s at max, and some of the NVMe SSD's are at like 3500 GB/s in read speeds. |
Average game the last few years have been 60-80GBs. Next gen average is gonna be at least 120-130 a few years in.
