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Sony Releasing New 1TB PlayStation 4 In July

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-storage dept.

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.

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  1. Cool feature but... by gameboyhippo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Cool feature but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Sony doesn't want you to be able to play the games you already bought.

      Making a slight amendment to this: Sony doesn't want you to be able to play the games you already bought without paying for them again. Sony could blow the whole backward compatible thing out of the water though, if they could scan your account for games you already bought (maybe using your trophies list?) and give you free access to those in PS Now.

      The problem with scanning your account for trophies is that it gives anyone with a redbox account or something similar a way a game for a pittance. They would probably have to demand that the physical disc be present for proof you actually have whatever it is you're trying to play. Digital games don't really matter, since you need to be signed in with your PlayStation account to access them anyway.

  2. Re:Why? by mlts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Dues it matter? by dissy · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Why? by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.