What you wrote is completely false...
"...as DF proved, a top-end Gen3 (cheaper than Gen4 yet still vastly faster than Xbox Series SSD) works fine largely thanks to PS5 I/O tech."
The WDSN750 SE is PCI-e Gen4 for starters just on the much lower end of of Gen 4 spec.
"PS5 offers drive support for; PCIe 3.0"
No.
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Uh... color me perplexed. I have a PS5 and have yet to find a way to move save data to my USB drive on a per game basis. Sure I can do it for PS4 games... BUT NOT FOR PS5 GAMES!
This is a small misstep on PS' part not something to really cry about.
However if Xbox Series does allow Series game save data to be transferred freely to any USB drive to be downloaded to another Xbox Series on a per game basis without internet or a subscription or reformatin...
PS5 only allows one format, the format is specific to PCI-e Gen 4 m.2 NVMe SSDs. The thing is PCI-e Gen 4 m.2 NVMe is a standard that many storage device manufacturers can make freely.
Microsoft uses a proprietary format card for Xbox Series consoles which is open to other manufacturers according to MS. I suspect other manufacturers aren't biting (making memory units for Xbox Series) because Series devices aren't selling well enough.
Not only that but unlike in the PS3 and PS4 days plopping in a new drive requires less effort on PS5 because you don't have to reinstall firmware and format the drive and start the system like the first time you've ever used it before. PS3/4 HDD/SSD swaps required way more work on the user's side than PS5 does today. It's effectively just like putting in a new memory card which is exactly what an NVMe drive is anyway.
I doubt MS will make a lot from this, but I agree wholly that this was their intent.
I didn't know PS5 supported 4TB until after I had secured a 2TB WD drive.
It is nice that PS5 NVMe drives don't require the firmware and all. PS5 NVMe are easily swappable, but not in the same way Xbox Series' cards are. The nice thing is that while the process of swapping cards requires turning the device off disconnecting it from the wall removing a side panel, the drive bay cover and drive to replace it... the effect is exactly the same as swapping out the Xbox Series&...
@jznrpg
I get that Orchard is a Xbot and all... but I have to agree that if PS5 had a 4TB memory card option like Xbox Series has I'd be very excited for it. That said hopefully PS5 will allow external gen4 NVMe storage support via USB. I picked up an overkill gen 4 NVMe drive dock for my PC only to find out my PCI-e gen3 PC's motherboard can't use it to its fullest, but my PS5 can if only we could load PS5 games from it! That would be a nice middle ground in my personal ...
Vita failed because of poor software support from 1st and 3rd parties. If Vita's memory cards were 99 cents for 64GB, would it matter if there were no games for it? Well the Vita really wound up getting very little big games. Killzone: Mercenaries, WipEout 2048, Uncharted: Golden Abyss and several watered down ports weren't enough to really keep the platform compelling. As a huge fan of PS I wound up finding time to finish my 3DS backlog before PS Vita was discontinued.
Anyone could make PSP cards and prices were far more competitive than PS Vita memory cards which were never officially made by anyone other than PS. Even so PS Vita memory cards were at worse 3 times the cost of similarly speced MicroSD cards and that was quickly rectified bringing prices down significantly to more closely align with MicroSD cards. I purchased 64GB Vita memory new at Best Buy for less than 50% more than 64GB of memory for a MicroSD neither card being on sale well before PS Vi...
The issue witt backing up saves is not as bad as I thought but it's still not as good as the PS4's options or PSP's options which were wholly open-ended. On PS5 you can back up all saves offline... problem is if something weird happens you have to restore the PS5 to the last back-up point which can be problematic in and of itself even if it technically works perfectly. It's a way slower process to restore a single game's save state while offline, free of charge.
H...
My 5 year old laptop was nearly state of the art and doesn't even support gen 4 NVMe drives yet this article acts like next year gen 4 NVMe drives would be obsolete if not for PS5 and of course they ignore that Xbox Series is stuck gen 3 speeds... just my laptop. Trash article.
@porkChop
"Where are you getting $120 per year? Game Pass Ultimate is $15 and includes XBLG. So the upgrade would only be an extra $5 per month, which is $60. Why are you doubling it?"
Xbox Live Gold is $9.99/month.
Xbox Game Pass for Console is also $9.99/month. Copy-pasta from: https://www.microsoft.com/e...
From the same link above
More likely that the dust dominated your Xbox.
The award should be made out of cheap aluminum and be hollow inside like MS' empty output.
@Orchard
No irony here, you realize by saying this: "You played nothing because we have no games because the FTC didn't let us acquire Activision yet" that you give FTC the argument that MS' previous acquisitions were funbled by MS and that if the FTC were doing their job properly they 100% shouldn't let MS aquire them as all MS will do is destroy what little reputation and good games they have left... right!?
"MS openly stated they would support crossgen for 2 years"
And in that 2 years they released 3 or 4 games in maybe 5 - I feel like I must be forgetting something... Halo: Infinite (X/O/S/X & PC), Forza Horizon 5, (X/O/S/X & PC), Pentiment (X/O/S/X & PC), Ori and The Blind Forest (X/O/S/X & PC) isn't that all? Psychonauts was an acquisition made late in development so I don't count it (and it also launched on PS4 though MS seems to have blocked a nati...
@Logicwins
If great games were all you cared about... you would just buy a PS and call it a day, but you don't, why? What is so great about Xbox? Is it the ads on the dashboard, their controller's asymmetrical stick layout, their lack of quality games what is it that makes you defend Xbox?
When I play on PC I use the Xbox One gamepad I do have a favorite controller layout and that is PS' but I'm not handicapped or upset about using the Xbox One pad....
How often did any games use those motion controls on Switch?
How well were those controls regarded?
Why would their next console need to be portable if most people play at home anyway and you can use the other consoles via streaming when out and about.
How would they achieve 4K graphics in a portable form factor much less at Nintendo's 60FPS when the far bigger technology giants can't because that technology just doesn't exist. You really think...
Switch was never impressive. By the time it launched in March of 2017 The Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 was already in some smartphones and the Samsung Galaxy S8 was less than 2 months away from launch. I showed Alien: Isolation running on my personal Samsung Galaxy S8 about a year ago now on Android 9 I showed GRID Autosport even earlier. Those two Feral Interactive ports are effectively the best looking games on Switch even outdoing the PS4 and PC versions with some settings! But even that being ...
Or you can buy a cheap smartphone which covers all your PC needs (productivity meaning spreadsheets emails and all) and game properly on a console anyway. I think most people will choose this option and still save way more money and more importantly years of their lives not trying to buy a minimum spec desktop PC just to optimize games for it every time their PC farts and screws everything up all just so they can look less like a "console simp", "pleb" or "peasant&quo...