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Intrinsic on 26 March 2020
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Pemalite said:

Because those drives are insufficient from a performance perspective to load next-gen games from.

Microsoft has taken a performance-guaranteed approach with it's propriety "memory cards". - But that will be more costly.

Sony however is not as propriety, but there isn't enough details to showcase how flexible it truly is or what it's costs are.

I actually like having all my games installed and updated... I have 20~ Terabytes worth of storage on the Xbox One X, 4 Terabytes on the Xbox 360... 50 Terabytes on my PC.

Shit could get expensive for me next gen if I spent $100 per Terabyte...
  1. I am not saying that you get an HDD to run the games of from, I am saying you get a HDD as a backup drive. Copy games that you are done playing onto it fr whenever you may want to play them again so you can then move them back into your system drive. Which would be faster than redownloading or reinstalling from disk. Basically your game on the external HDD would work as if you have a disc copy of the game. 
  2. I don't know about MS "proprietary" SSD,I was under the impression that its just a 2230 M.2 SSD. In an enclosure. Thy use it for some of their devices and its a form factor that's found in some laptops too. I could be mistaken though.
  3. That's a lot of storage space you are packing. Well for me, knowing how I play games; I start a game, usually don't move way from it till I platinum it or I'm done with it and that's it. Never go back to play it again. Then I have a couple of resident games in my system. Usually Tekken and GT ( my idea of pciku and play games. 

    So for someone like me, just getting an external drive that I can use as a backup drive would be great for me.