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Sony PlayStation 4 Is Finally Adding Support For External Hard Drive (playstation.com)
The Sony PlayStation 4's next system update, out now for beta testers, will allow users to connect an external USB hard drive. From company's blog post: It's easy to upgrade the HDD that came with your PS4, but if you're still looking for more storage space on the console, we've got you covered. With this update, you have the option to store content to an external HDD. Just plug a USB 3.0 HDD into your PS4, and voila, you now have more space on the console.
It was fake news anyway. Everything about the PS4 is fake. Technology is fake. This article is fake, I am fake.
I predict comments about how someone is never buying anything from Sony ever again because "other OS" for the PS3, CD rootkit fiasco, memory stick instead of SD, beta instead of VHS, etc. Pointless rant that dozens of people will reply to, one of which will include movies released by Sony.
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surprising how many sony shills are on /.
since I connected a USB HD Drive to my PS4 a year ago.
I just assumed that the reason external drives were forbidden in the first place was for copy protection and to make it harder to hack save game data.
As far as I am aware (and I am not aware of much in this area) some of the more notorious hacks for PS games are from people exporting save game data on older systems to external hard drives then cracking it and re-importing.
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Glad to see they are finally fixing this. This was really the one problem that I had with the PS4. The day after I bought my PS4 I upgraded it to a 2TB internal laptop drive, but with every game taking up 40GB plus, it is not that hard to fill up a drive that big, and indeed I recently ran out of space. Contrast this with my Xbone, which I think is the loser in this generation, but at least with Xbone I was able to plug in a 5TB USB3 external drive and was good to go.
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They want their feature back.
I just assumed that the reason external drives were forbidden in the first place was for copy protection and to make it harder to hack save game data.
Since the PS3 I've used an external USB drive to do system and game backups. The PS4 even had a way I could backup saves from individual games, so it seems like I could have edited them after... but I'm also assuming the backups were encrypted in some way. If they just have an encrypted FS it seems like it would work just as well to store game data, I wonder if you could go to another person's house with a drive that held your games, log in as yourself and be able to use that HD... hmm.
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Did you mean for those words to come out in that order, or did they just fall out randomly?
So for the past 3.5 years you haven't been able to use a USB hard disk with the PS4? That seems pretty consumer-unfriendly.
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the really exciting news ( at least for me ) is that you can now play 3D Bluerays on the PSVR headset. Unlike glasses, you wont lose half the brightness and it will look like 3D Imax
So this is what the shills have to offer—a blanket and unjustified declaration that people in the know (who presumably read /.) should not only be willing to be treated badly but an attempt at narrowing the scope of allowable debate to exclude reminding people of Sony's horribly bad choices which treat consumers badly ("pointless rant"). Sony's defenders/shills must be seeing the increasing retelling of such stories as a threat, otherwise there would be no need for posts such as the parent post in the first place.
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