Itās because theyāve used these high speed SSDs which, one imagines, arenāt cheap.
Just checked the upgrade on the PS5 and you canāt play games off of extended storage now, you used to be beforeā¦
My humble Xbox 360S is 250gb.
My newer but still fairly humble Xbox One X is 1TB. I am unlikely to be needing extended storage for many moons.
Honestly, think both of these launches have been among the least impressive for big firms in a long time.
Thereās no killer app on either, and weāre back to the days where youāre plugging storage in, which is why I made the Sinclair comparison. Heād famously make things that were āentry-levelā with a view to selling you convenience.
There is an interesting issue for Sony
CoD war zone is 300gb - their updates often come as full downloads
There is a serious amount of storage juggling required to facilitate this
Either Sony need to sort their storage or the developers are going to have to get more cute as it is already pissing me off
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Fuck sake - you need 180gb spare to update
The only solution left is to delete the original to free up the space to get the update
Time to install - 7 hours
So what is supposed to be my stress busting pastime is giving me the hump big time.
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8 year old me waiting 10 screechy minutes for Atic Atac to load on my spectrum feels your pain.
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So it looks like the summer for the internal upgrade to be switched on. They are also working to support external m.2 ssd drives which will allow play from the storage although at Ā£250+ for a couple of tbs - thatās not a cheap option either
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Halo Masterchief Collection - essentially most of the iterations ever released - āonlyā used up 59GB but did take 5 hours to install. Possibly because its not close to my WiFi though
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I hear great things about the PS5 controller.
Got a Series S/X one for my PC tonight. It doesnāt have the haptic bells and whistles of the PS5 variant, but what it does have is probably the best D-PAD Iāve come across ever.
Probably still waiting on my decision for a bit, although I am checking places for stock.
One thing that is readily available is the Xbox One S. Probably wonāt get one of those, but I am interested in the X because of what the S is already capable of doing.
You can buy ādev modeā for a one-time $20 purchase. Unlike a softmod, itās completely legit and allows the console to be most other consoles ever made with the right software.
Completely confused now. Iāve been doing some research on the two consoles now that everyone has had a year or so to get acquainted. My original plan was to get a PS5 whenever one was available, citing that there wasnāt much point in getting a Series X because I already had a PC.
Not sure now. While the PS5 controller is far more of an advance than the XBox one, I was surprised to learn that in raw horsepower, Series X is eating not only PS5ās lunch, but also any PC I could buy for twice the price.
I was looking at just replacing my graphics card for the PC to get a bit of ray-tracing going. Weāre talking Ā£700 minimum.
Add GamePass to that equation and itās tremendous value for money. Sony has got a massive headstart in exclusives but Flight Simulator (pardon the pun) landed on XBox this week. In terms of pure wow factor, thatās a system seller - and thatās before we mention all the Bethesda stuff.
Torn.
The PS5 is good, my only real niggle in the storage - the prospect of having to spend another Ā£200-Ā£300 to get the thing up to spec pisses me off somewhat
These next gen SSDs are brutally expensive
The Bethesda situation is an interesting one - the are over 10m PS5s and 100m PS4 out there - that is one hell of a market to ignore.
Theyāre not ignoring it. Theyāre courting it.
I get the court the PS4 market, but it is a big ask to expect a PS5 owner to drop another Ā£400 just to play skyrim.
Not many of us have the tin to own more than one of these machines
FWIW, my Xbox One X is a serious bit of kit. Purchased via ebay, not used much and sold because the owner had upgraded to a Series X.
Yes I was coming from light years behind but to get this for Ā£250 was a steal
I could have understood this argument in 1982 when the likes of a C64 would set you back Ā£400 in 1982 money.
Weāre talking Ā£449 each in 2021 money. Itās not inconsiderate, but itās not bank breaking. Most of my gaming mates have all the consoles from each generation save a couple of the handheld outliers. Just like me, they donāt buy them all at once. It was relatively late into the life of the XBox One that I got onboard.
Itās that value proposition which should really worry Sony. Microsoftās entire business model this generation is predicated on selling XBox all access. To them, XBox means PC, means mobile - itās play anywhere. The consoles are just another means to that concept.
Sony are still relying on the making money through software sales - and they can only sell to people with PS5s. Until they refine the hardware, itās very much a loss leader, as is the Series X.
If people with both consoles have so much on Series S/X to play for free, theyāre not going to be buying cross-platform games. Itāll probably be on GamePass soon, so why would they shell out Ā£50+ notes for the PS5 version?
Interesting contest. Sony are actually gambling more. Microsoft can bank on virtually everyone getting a GamePass subscription keeping it for the entire life of the generation.
Donāt forget there is also PS Now fur the PlayStation, very much the same as Game Passā¦
What worries me about both is that a game can drop off of the respective offering without you actually finishing the gameā¦