[CONFIRMED] PS5 capped at 640gb, no SSD expansion and no external HDD for storage

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2020/11/06/the-ps5-doesnt-support-external-hard-drives-for-ps5-games/

 

wtf  

 

cows are stuck with 640GBs total on PS5 for the foreseeable future, you will have to constantly delete games and redownload them, and can’t store them and transfer them to the SSD 

Edited November 6, 2020 by ghostz life matters

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

Are cows going to act like having only 660gb of storage isn’t a problem?

[Playstation Tablet 1,725]

No shit. It requires you to load the games on to the SSD for performance.

 

Or was your dumbass planning to play on your slow ass HDD running through an USB?

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

4 minutes ago, Team 2019 said:

No shit. It requires you to load the games on to the SSD for performance.

 

Or was your dumbass planning to play on your slow ass HDD running through an USB?

YOU CANT EVEN STORE GAMES ON AN EXTERNAL HDD

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

Cows have a TOTAL of 660gb to use, that’s it, NO OPTIONS of expansion or even a portable HDD to store the games and transfer them to the ssd 

 

just to clarify, this is LESS than PS4 pro has 

Edited November 6, 2020 by ghostz life matters

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

This is massive and I’mma bump it every day until Sony fixes it, get fucked cows  

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

This means cows can only have 2-4 games installed at a time and there no NO WAY AROUND THIS  

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

Bumped daily 

[TLHBO 2,160]

Lmao sheep you can't even fit games on cartridge :D buying a game and then being told to fuck off and download it. ROFF!

Seems to me storage has hit a breaking point for consoles. None of them can manage price/storage. At least on PC I have the option of paying out the ass for more space  and I can slam a new one in there anytime.

 

I have a good SSD and a trusty retro HDD. HDD has actually been fine for me, perhaps this gen it will change but I guess I can leave it for the older games.

[lostfool 680]

It will be updated to enable the ssd slot

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551165/sony-ps5-playstation-5-no-m2-ssd-expansion-launch

[Tears of the Cows 1,206]

11 hours ago, lostfool said:

It will be updated to enable the ssd slot

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/5/21551165/sony-ps5-playstation-5-no-m2-ssd-expansion-launch

Yeah have fun waiting for years lmfao. 

[Casual 726]

How bad this is hinges on if they’ve fixed PSN speeds really. My PC has about this (well, it’s a 1tb, but my PC also has a lot of non-game related stuff taking up space) and it’s fine because I can download a 50gb game on steam in the time it takes me to have a shit. 
 

PSN has historically been unstable dogshit when it comes to speeds though. So if that stays the same this could be a bad time. 
 

Either way, not too worried. Don’t typically play that many games at the same time. Would suck if you keep things like CoD installed I guess. 
 

My PS4 right now:

Dark Souls - 8gb

Hollow Knight - 10

Rocket League - 18

RE2 - 25

FF7 - 86

TLOU2 - 83

Bloodborne - 36

MHW - 20

Sekiro - 17

HZD - 50

 

Still under 350 for 10 games with two being on the larger side. 

 

Edited November 8, 2020 by Casual

[kaz 2,439]

to be fair that's still 140gb more than my shitty ass basic hdd and I have like a million games installed  

[dilan147 2]

Was gonna slap a 3TB in there.😒😒

[Nightshade79 16]

Transferring PS5 games to an external will be patched in within 1 month. M.2 SSD's in 3 months. M.2 drive is totally superior to M$ and their locked 1st party memory cards.

[Hot Sauce 2,727]

8 minutes ago, Nightshade79 said:

Transferring PS5 games to an external will be patched in within 1 month. M.2 SSD's in 3 months. M.2 drive is totally superior to M$ and their locked 1st party memory cards.

 

Hopes and dreams™