Thanks.I find it weird we can transfer save files to USB and not the external.

For XB it would be a great way to show superiority over Pro, if they could show super quick loading times for games. Regardless of how many seconds exactly they took to load, it should be so much faster than Pro that XB marketing could have a heyday with it. However, like you said, it most certainly would be quite costly in comparison to a much larger HDD/SSHD drive, and isn't something that is usually marketed to help sell the console to casuals, so it would be all on XB to eat some of the extra cost, and push a new marketing campaign on speed and less wasted time while having better graphics/res to boot.

I would guess that XB would only go this storage route if Scorpio ended up being designed more so like a next gen console and less of an upgrade like Pro. In that case Scorpio would cost more than Pro retail, yet still have to subsidize to some extent, which would make something like an $80 SSD a viable option. I would also have to assume that if Scorpio was designed in this way, that XB would leave out any extra storage whatsoever and leave it up to the gamer to purchase an ext HDD that met their needs, whether it be an official XB HDD or another brand. (They could also have an empty internal slot for a 2.5" or 3.5" HDD that can be purchased and inserted like the PS4 but it seems like XB is staying away from that and keeping things as simple as possible for users). Scorpio may also be an upgrade like Pro, just a slightly bigger jump, which XB may have to turn a blind eye to load times to keep the cost down to be able compete with Pro.

Three years down the road an SSD option will at the very least be affordable like you said, which is what PS clearly has been aiming for, the best console that can be built for an affordable price. With load times only getting longer in the future with current HDD/SSHD tech, there's good reason to believe SSD is a possibility come PS5, and would be most welcome.

I think it's because you can run a game off of the external, but you can only backup saved data on a flash drive.

Been watching videos all morning, so many games that were slideshows are now a steady 30fps or 60fps. I'm guessing this might have something to do with the Scorpio offering the same functionality once its out. Definitely going to be replaying Bloodborne now though.

Lol mod froze my thread for this one because he said they were too similar- even though they're not and I posted mine first... probably because that mod and this OP are blowing each other is my bet... mod also said it was because I wasn't as nice, go figure?! (Take a joke, buddy!)

Lmao.

Awesome news. I'm wondering if I need my original PS4 at all now.

Your thread was locked as a decision by the mod chat, so several mods coming to that conclusion.  There were three very similar threads with copy and pasted information from the announcement.  Yours was just a link so it was decided that it should not be the one of the three left standing because it was the worst OP.  The other two were similar and this thread had the most posts already so it was decided that this would be the thread for the PS4 update.  

So there ya go, in case you were curious.  

Do WE have thé list of improvements for games ?

For example on Dishonored 2 or Gravity Rush 2 ?

Calling bullshit on that one. My thread had more posts  then this one at the time he froze it - and then the mod  posted this:

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