| Intrinsic said: I understand that. I totally do, but I also expect that those same enthusiasts would know more than any other why things are like that. |
Indeed they would understand that... But they are also going to be the first people in line to complain, just the way it is sadly.
| Intrinsic said: How much would either o these next-gen consoles cost if they cam with 2TB SSDs? Or would they rather sony and MS totally forwent the SSDs and just put in 2TB HDDs in there? If you recall, back in 2018, I was saying that next get consoles would come with SSDs, that by 2020, they would be able to fit one in there. A lot of people said it wouldn't be a possible cause of the costs, one of the discussed alternatives was to have an embedded SSD cache of around 256GB and then a 2TB HDD. But their solution is more elegant, as that would have games doing a lot more house management than they would have to do now. |
I stated we wouldn't get a next-gen console with a 1 Terabyte SSD and 16GB+ of ram at $399. - The price point the Playstation 4 launched at.
I asserted that GDDR6 and NAND would be to expensive... And I was right on that.
The Series S comes under that price bracket but does so by cutting DRAM to 10GB and NAND to 512GB.
The Playstation 5 only had 825GB of NAND... And only manages to hit that price point anyway due to dropping a feature, the optical drive.
But yes, an SSD cache drive could have been an option to maintain cost levels. And I am definitely glad they didn't go that way.
But I would have also loved for more Ram, 16GB isn't allot.
| Intrinsic said: SSDs are great tech for next-gen consoles. Gen defining tech. But they don't come cheap. They at least give us options, they aren't forcing us to have to buy some sort of proprietary device just so we can hoard more games. We have the choice of doing some house management or getting cold storage. The alternative is simply that they put in bigger SSDs, and that would simply mean the consoles are more expensive. I ould particularly expect people on forms to get that. |
I will stick to having a mechanical disk drive to put games on in cold storage because NAND will loose data over time due to bit flipping.
If it means transferring my favorite games over... Well. So be it.
Larger SSD's will obviously come later in the generation, when the Xbox One/Playstation 4 launched 128-256GB SSD's were the norm even on PC, today 1 terabyte drives are affordable.
In a couple years time? I fully expect 2 terabyte drives to be much more achievable.
| Intrinsic said: I personally would have no more than 8 games installed on my SSD at any time, anything above 8 and I would move something to cold storage. It would even be better if that action can be done in the background while i go about doing whatever see I am doing on the console. |
I would probably have a select few favorite titles on the internal SSD and just buy an SSD expansion card to put "rubbish" games on so to speak rather than drive up the read/writes on the internal SSD. Something I have done on the Switch to keep the internal NAND as healthy as possible for system longevity.
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