Honest question: Will the bc games play with the extra bells and whistles from the external hd as if they played from the ssd on both series X and ps5?

"You won’t be able to run any PS5 games directly off it though"

Doesn't make the headline any less misleading. You *can* use an external SSD to expand the amount of storage available.

"It’s a mild inconvenience, bit an inconvenience nonetheless."

Hardly.

lol....I'm getting downvoted in the first post for saying I'm waiting for SSD prices to drop. So what? I just laugh at folks who try to make a point solely on upvotes and downvotes. There is no reason behind it at all so why pretend there is something tangible to be said about it?

Sega Ganmer
"People were also getting downvoted for saying they could use an external hard drive if they run out of space on the Series S, but now people are getting upvoted for saying they will be doing the exactly the same thing on the PS5æ
Happens both sides...
But you can run PS4 games from a External drive, also, the USB on it is faster than the X.. (Look it Up), but anything Developed for the PS5 will need to be on the internal SSD.. As for Series Subscription, As its more tailored to multi hardware , they say SX games must be on the internal drive also , but that will be a few years away won't it? As nothing fits that criteria, like PS5 , anything BC with updates or textures ect, I guess at this point thats all that requires internal SSD installation..
And as this article states something Cerny Declared back in March his year.. Its no Surprise at all..
The tech is new.. Sonmys SSD's have custom controllers for the 5.5 GBS through put.. And as he says in the talk, As they have special io buffers, until there is possibly some released specifically for the PS5 , any Nvme m.2 can be used, but becuase of the Tech used, Without the onboard IO chip, standard of the shelf SSD's would at least need to be able to transfer above 7GBS..
As Sony dont lock you into a Proprietary expansion option, They still want to whitelist 3rd party to guarantee no issues... It may not be on launch, But the situation remains...
An Xbox Series S will be sold on hire purchase, Play first , Pay Later, And as designed, a Delivery Box for entering a subscription model.

I reiterate, All this is about is the Internal SSD expansion.. And in march this had already been stated.

It seems like certain supporters of a hive mind, the numbers are unacceptable.
So I accept this is only information taken from gaming websites, But to disagree of which is a mathematical conclusion shows the response of downvotes of the immature, mathematically inept , OR , the numbers published by gaming sites are wrong..However , maybe review units are different?
Downvoting is so easy, but its such a cop out to not get into conversation as to why?
Is it because I said SS was "Gimped"? ,.My apologies , limited. ok?
So I ask, Now as other information is coming to light , Free space available to the user is ,as the approx percentage of the used space IF TRUE , Series X approx 800gb (so around 20%), Series S 364 (40% #dealwithit)
And the PS5 664 (23%) ..
But one last bullet point, as an Article I just read by someone with a review kit, thats also the PS5 space WITH astrobot Preinstalled....
I mostly always post as a response to the absurd FB hive mind..Where emotional attachment spills into unsupported claims ...
So Dave Zero.... Its approx 800GB
See? All good to point out any misleading info from any camp.

Yes. You can.