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[EricHiggin]

Chrkeller said:

Intrinsic said:

I really don't see what the issue is; I expect these consoles to be able to have at least 8 games installed to their internal drives. Not every games a 100GB+ game. 

But more so, even if given the option to buy some sort of compatible SSD expansion drive... I wouldn't. I find that to be a waste of money. Why should I spend $100+ on some sort of compatible 1TB drive (be it XSX proprietary drive or a 7GB/s NVMe off the shelf drive), when I can buy this 2TB drive for $65 or this 4TB drive for $94 

I mean yes, I would've to be doing some house management, but copying to ad from an external drive is a lot faster than redownloading data or reinstalling from the bluray drive.

I would probably only need to moe things to the external drive like 2- 3 ties a year anyways. And I am likely to go for the 4TB drive because that at least allows me to have a good amount of selected PS4 titles from my current library on there and it least with that games I can play them off the external drive.

It all depends on how it works.  If I can load up an external HDD with game, leave the internal storage empty, have games automatically transfer to the uber fast SSD drive while I play, this would be great.  But if I constantly have to install/delete this is a problem and makes me consider PC.  Especially since I have kids who will want a certain number of games installed pretty much at all times.  Storage could be a major issue with consoles.  Not sure I like what I am seeing.  I would be curious how well games run from an external standard HDD.  

It's a good point. If you have to sit there and wait for it to transfer, it will tick people off when it comes to large games. If it can be done in the background, seamlessly as you play, then that's not so bad. Like how you can play a portion of a game fairly quickly when downloading, even though the majority hasn't been downloaded yet.

I made a point back when the SSD talk started, that loading games from the external HDD to SSD should be available from a phone app. If you're at work or school, whatever, and friends want to play a game you don't have loaded, you just pull up the app, select the game you want to play, select the games you want to remove from the SSD, and it's done by the time you're home.

If they were to do this, hopefully it will make clear what the file sizes are, and maybe even highlight which games would make the most sense to move based on your initially removal pick, so you're not moving stuff you don't have to. Better yet, if it's got some AI tech, that can suggest removing certain games based on how much room you need to transfer, and how much you play them, that would be really convenient as well.