Is Switch 2's 256gb on par or worse than PS5's 825 launch model?

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Conina said:

Vodacixi said:

Talking out of my ass here, so correct me if I'm wrong... But, whathever measurement the system uses for storage... Will be the same for the games, right? Like, if your PS5 says you have 667 GB and it actually means 716 GB... If a game is listed as a 60 GB file on your PS5, it would actually be higher too, right?

Yeah, that's right. But this part of the discussion started with the wrong assumption, that the PS5 OS uses 150 GB of the storage.

But it is schizophrenic.

When Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo sell the hardware, they advertise it with x Gigabyte/Terabyte (based on the decimal system). But when you use the system, storage is counted as x Gibibyte/Tebibyte (based on the binary system), but shown as "Gigabyte"/"Terabyte" (based on the binary system).

That is especially annoying, if you use the metric system for any weights and measures based on the decimal system.

• 1 kilometer = 1000 meters
• 1 kilogram = 1000 grams
• 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts
• 1 kilohertz = 1000 hertz, 1 megahertz = 1,000,000 hertz, 1 gigahertz = 1,000,000,000 hertz
• 1 kilojoule = 1000 joules, 1 megajoule = 1,000,000 joules, 1 gigajoule = 1,000,000,000 joules
• 1 kilovolt = 1000 volts, 1 megavolt = 1,000,000 volts, 1 gigavolt = 1,000,000,000 volts
• 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts

1.21 gigawatt are 1,210,000,000 watts.... NOT 1,299,227,607 watts!

Yet for computers it was

1KB = 2^10 bytes
1MB = 2^10 KB or 2^20 bytes
1GB = 2^10 MB or 2^30 bytes
1TB =  2^10 GB or 2^40 bytes

Computers are base 2, not base 10.

It all went wrong with the internet though, as well as marketing for HDDs. Those are base 10 instead of base 2.