85$? Newegg is expensive for those, apparently. I got 60€ on Alternate, Vat included. But the price of an 1TB SSD is about the same, somewhat over 100€, but the cheapest ones had shitty transfer speeds for SSD. Actually usable ones started at over 120€, so twice the price.

An SSD will be included in the build, but I don't expect it to be the main storage. I expect it to be used similarly to StoreMI on AMD 4xx Motherboards, where you can couple a small SSD with any HDD to achieve near SSD speeds for the whole package, as the SSD is mainly used as chache. But that only works on the second and subsequent runs, as it needs the first one to know what to cache.

Anything else would make the build too expensive, like I said before a 2TB SSD (in the interview he also talks about expanding storage, so certainly more than 1TByte) would cost around 250$, that's just too expensive right now.

I feel like this will be a bigger generational leap than last. Not necessarily in visuals but in user experience, which is far more important. The SSD <3

I also think will be far more interesting to see how developers ultilise the hardware. Native 4k vs Ray traycing vs 1080p Ultra Settings vs 1080-1440p 60fps. I'm personally hoping many devs still work with "lower" 1080p resolutions to deliver HQ visuals.

Very much so. That won't be a $399 console anymore. Possibly why they keep the price for the PS4 on $299, they might be loosing much money initially on every PS5 sold and are filling their war chest now.

I really hope we see more than just PS4 BC. I know it takes time and effort away from pure PS5 development, but honestly they could slap an FPGA on the thing and have the best BC we've ever had outside of slapping mini SOCs of the old consoles. I would settle for just PS1 and PS2 honestly. PS2 would be a really boon. PS1 can be played on all PS3s, sure, but I would like to save my PS3 for actually PS3 games to prolong its life. PS3 BC I think is the big hurdle that will probably have to wait until PS6, PS7 or never if we are full cloud all the time at that point.

I'm all in for a 399 pricetag even if costing 599 to make (much better situation than PS3 costing 800 and selling for 499 and 599 both to customer and sony as it is less loss and components that will drop in price better than PS3 had plus PSN can help a lot). The better HW they can ship for 399 pricetag the best for their plan.

Mid-Late 2020 $499 with $100 loss per console sounds about right to me.  Some things can be a bit deceptive in terms of how expensive we think something might be.

Sony will be eating a lot of the cost on the console. Like 150-200 USD, removing the driver would only make it 20USD cheaper or so, not something that will lower cost barrier, at most they could do a smaller console for a little cheaper but nothing that would really affect sales.

https://www.alternate.be/Seagate/BarraCuda-2-TB-Harde-schijf/html/product/1307667?lk=6075

85€, the 60€ was a desktop one not a laptop.

Even though the article don't exactly dispel the HDD/SSD combo, it's just clear it will be a SSD only.

I wonder how this will compare to Stadia, spec-wise.

theoretical or real world...

From what we heard from stadia it seems to be about X1X level of power, while this seems to be about double (on raw number, performance will be much higher).

On real world with latency, bandwidth and all else Stadia will be lower than full HD, this will be about 4K (capable of 8K output per the interview).