I would have assumed that this was just the available space and that the EU has regs around what can be called storage space.
Also fuck Sony, raise the price in te US where they are fucking around. Storage is cheap af nowadays.
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PS5 originally launched with 825GB drives and Slim increased that to 1TB - they’re reverting that change now.
Can you atleast still put a Nvme for more storage?
Yes
At the same price. Don't forget that important point.
Silver lining is that at least you can buy a regular M2 NVME SSD, unlike with Xbox. Had to pay something like €150 for a proprietary 1TB drive because of my life choices T_T
For the main drive, there’s nothing proprietary about it - it’s an M.2 2230 SSD, just like the Surface laptops, Steam Deck, and many other devices. It’s just more work to get to and I believe it might be necessary to do a sector based clone through a computer to get things working.
Expansion Cards are technically a CFExpress card in a custom casing, it’s a bit funny that a CFExpress card of the same capacity actually costs quite a lot more.
I’ve looked into this back in the day and once you factor in price of the adapter it comes to a similar cost and looks really clunky. Even though looks don’t matter because it’s at the rear, I’d be worried I’d break it because it protrudes so much.
Ah, you’re referring to the storage expansion.
The economics are really in favor of the Seagate / WD Products anyways. At $280 retail for 2TB, you’re actually well below the median price of 2TB CFExpress cards.
Still would have preferred a more common format, obviously
Instead of 1TB, the updated digital version of the base PS5 now comes with an 825GB SSD
So Sony saved themselves like...$10?
Is the drive a different size or are they just labeling the usable storage.
Didn't the original also come with 825GB? I seem to recall that since it was specially designed by Sony for "enhanced speeds" on the PS5, that they only made it 825GB.
Multiply that by how much they sold this console and you have the final price.
So…$10?
What could even be the point of this? What are they saving per machine? That is already lossmaking.
And with the cost of HDD storage since original release, storage costs almost nothing these days.
This just makes no fucking sense. They stand to gain presumably almost nothing, and instead will piss people off