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EricHiggin on 26 March 2020
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DonFerrari said:
EricHiggin said:

While SNY's SSD tech may be somewhat more expensive than what MS is using, you'd think if a proprietary card was going to be in the same ballpark price wise, that SNY would have gone with that.

To me, SNY saw the price difference for creating something like MS has, and decided it was going to be way too expensive. Not just at launch either. For the effort SNY went to in creating some of the hardware, like the controller for the SSD, why they wouldn't go to the trouble of what MS did with a proprietary card says to me it's price that was the biggest problem.

That's not to say MS's card wouldn't be cheaper right off the bat based on it's tech, and maybe MS is willing to subsidize those cards to some degree. I also can't help but wonder if MS assumes most will just transfer over their existing external HDD's, or upgrade to a larger one based on the much cheaper market prices.

The cost over time also needs to be taken into account. A proprietary card only comes down in price a lot if MS keeps subsidizing it, or if they sell a boat load of consoles, while also convincing many to buy 1 card or more. Mass market gen 4 NVMe's will naturally drop in price much quicker, which also means lower prices or higher amounts of storage for the same old price as years go by.

Well the SSD for PS5 being twice the speed would probably mean it would cost more to manufacture than MS solution even with the heatsink and other stuff on the stick.

Probably, yes.

Now however, SNY should not only have the cheaper option, but all the long term storage benefits, minus simplicity.

What will be available from MS in 3-4 years vs what SNY will have at it's disposal?