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Forums - Gaming - PS4 Firmware 2.50 Brings External Hard drive Support (Rumour)

estebxx on 07 March 2015

please be true and please have video playback support!



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GribbleGrunger on 07 March 2015
Intrinsic said:
How does this tell us that external HDD is now supported? All I'm seeing there is that you can back up the PS4 to an external HDD. Nothing in that pic suggests that u can copy your games to an external HDD and run it from there.


I don't think anyone has said that have they?



 

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Guitarguy on 07 March 2015

They should implement it. Sony are known to be quite progressive, they were the first to make a major console region free, they had no intention of stopping second hand game sales/lending games to friends and constant online. They know the masses want external hard drive support, I hope the listen.



kivi95 on 07 March 2015

Could have really needed this last week.... Redownloading 500GB of games for the new HDD was not fun.



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JustBeingReal on 07 March 2015

You've been able to transfer your whole PS4's HDD to another one from launch, this feature seems to allow you to be a bit more specific about what you want to transfer. Although I've got a feeling that was already added in a previous update.

What PS4 needs is for you to be able to use an external HDD like you use your internal one, like an A and B drive.
For PS4 owners to be able to save games to the external HDD and access those saves straight from that drive, simply through USB 3.0.



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KingdomHeartsFan on 07 March 2015

Hopefully they add this.  Or at least make it so when you uninstall a game you don't get rid of the updates too.  I mean the PS3 didn't do that...why move backwards...



sabvre42 on 07 March 2015
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Hopefully they add this.  Or at least make it so when you uninstall a game you don't get rid of the updates too.  I mean the PS3 didn't do that...why move backwards...

Not that simple, patching is no longer plug in modules, but now actual code change.

 

The ps3/360 patching architecture is archaic, but allowed dlc to exist separately.



zumnupy10 on 07 March 2015

Firmware 2.50 may also bring DualShock 4 button remapping:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1005553

That would be an awesome feature.



KingdomHeartsFan on 07 March 2015
sabvre42 said:
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Hopefully they add this.  Or at least make it so when you uninstall a game you don't get rid of the updates too.  I mean the PS3 didn't do that...why move backwards...

Not that simple, patching is no longer plug in modules, but now actual code change.

 

The ps3/360 patching architecture is archaic, but allowed dlc to exist separately.

So its impossible to do with the new architecture?



Intrinsic on 07 March 2015
GribbleGrunger said:
Intrinsic said:
How does this tell us that external HDD is now supported? All I'm seeing there is that you can back up the PS4 to an external HDD. Nothing in that pic suggests that u can copy your games to an external HDD and run it from there.


I don't think anyone has said that have they?

Errrr... unless I'm mistaken; but I thought whenever. anyone brought up external HDD support on the PS4 the explicitly meant that they want it to do what you can do with the XB1 or WiiU and basically run your games off an external HDD. 

If this thread is about being abke to "back up" the PS4 then well...... yay?