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Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July
Mark Wilson writes: Known as the 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition (or PlayStation 4 Ultimate Player 1TB Edition depending on who you're talking to), Sony is launching a new PlayStation 4 next month. With the ever-growing market for downloadable content, it's difficult to have too much disk space. Recognizing this, Sony is doubling the size of the largest capacity PS4. The 1TB console will launch next month in the US, Asia and Europe, and the announcement comes just weeks after Microsoft announced a 1TB version of its Xbox One. Gamers in Japan will be able to get their hands on the console by the end of June, but the rest of the world will have to wait until July 15. There's no word on pricing, but Sony has detailed a few other changes that have been made to this version of the console.
I'd be sold on PS4 if it had BC with PS3. There isn't enough content that I like for me to want to get the PS4 yet, but I wouldn't mind upgrading if it had backwards compatibility.
seriously just give me some usb ports and allow me to bring my own external HDD.
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Since it's so easy to replace the drive in the first place, this seem like kind of non-news... it will be helpful for some non-technical people but most people are probably not coming close to filling up the drives Sony currently ships with.
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The Japanese company does a world-wide release.
The American company does a Japan-first release.
You might be a little confused. Here's some clarification:
announcement comes just weeks after Microsoft announced a 1TB version of its Xbox One. Gamers in Japan will be able to get their hands on the console [The PS4] by the end of June
Sony is releasing the 1TB PS4 in Japan first, the rest of the world July 15. XBone is just mentioned in passing for comparison of announcement dates.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
It's a 2.5" SATA drive.
Best $/GB for 2.5" drives at the moment is in the 750 - 1000GB size.
A 2TB drive costs more than 2x a 1TB drive.
I don't want a console, regardless of maker. They symbolize a fundamental pacts broken:
During the "don't copy that floppy" era, there were promises made repeatedly that if piracy went away, prices on software would decrease sharply. When the latest and greatest DRM system hit, it was mentioned that if piracy went away, the money spent on that would be shaved off the prices of games and other items.
Well, fast forward to today. Consoles have a 0% piracy rate on the latest gen, and previous gen consoles get perma-banned if the network detects they were modded. Have game prices on consoles gone down as repeatedly pledged to us? No. In fact, to play a game (or actually get a "game"'s worth of content), it requires hundreds of dollars of DLC.
So, consoles are an embodiment of a lie promised to the consumer repeatedly, but for the price of a PC game, one gets the luxury of paying a lot more for an immutable, unmodable game, which can't even be sold at a used game store.
"More space" is by far the least interesting out of a short list of not very interesting upgrades.
The others are: 8% lower power consumption, 10% lower weight. Oh, and a matte finish to the hard drive bay!
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Better than that, you can just swap out the internal HD with another HD (or SSD) of your choosing.
It must be a 2.5" drive that is 9.5mm (or less), and 5400rpm to match the built in drive but faster drives will show the speed improvement.
You can then backup your game saves to a USB drive, swap out the internal drive, format the new internal drive, restore your saves from USB, and go about installing games again.
The only annoying part is if you already have a ton of games on the internal drive.
I don't know any way to copy those along, you have to redownload them AFAIK, so hopefully you have a good ISP.
I know a few people that did this using 512gb SSDs for the speed boost.
On my friends SSD'ed PS4 I got to play GTA5 before and after the upgrade, and you could very much tell the difference in speed. Much closer to PC loading times than stock console.
For extra capacity, I think the largest "thin" 9.5mm HDs out there are 2tb, but that too is only a matter of time and I may already be out-of-date wrong with that statement.
BTW the PS3 is just as easily upgraded.
I never owned a PS2 so can't comment there (does it even have an HD?), and the PS1 certainly did not.
Isn't the price of a new game typically $50-60? That's the same as 20 years ago, so in inflation-adjusted dollars, the prices have dropped quite a bit.
I do agree with you about the extra downloadable content issue, but I don't usually buy games like those.
Those are some good points made by mlts.
Even if console prices have come down like you say, they haven't come down as much as they should with zero copyright infringement. You can see this by comparing games that get released on consoles and the pc at the same time. The vast majority of the time, (maybe even all the time?), the pc release is cheaper than it is on a console. But at the same time the pc is the most open and 'pirated' platform. hmmm...
I think mlts has made some good points. It was always a sham blaming copyright infringement for the high price of software. Look at the price of a genuine windows licence worldwide. It is cheapest in the countries with high piracy rates. Hell, countries with high piracy rates get rewarded with lower prices while countries like Australia which has some of the lowest piracy rates pays some of the highest prices for software especially games on steam.
If you go back before there was any digital distribution for console games, the higher price for console games could be sort of justified by the buyer getting some of their money back by selling/trading in the game. But now that's gone too, once you buy it its worth basically nothing because you can't sell it to anyone. So not only have console companies kept prices higher with zero copyright infringement they've kept prices high after cutting out the second hard market.