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PS5 SSD capacity could be a huge letdown — here's why

PS5 SSD capacity could be a huge letdown — hither'southward why

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Nosotros've heard before that the PS5'due south 825GB SSD might have a adept chunk of its storage space eaten upward past the operating system, simply it appears the state of affairs could be worse than beginning idea.

Eagle-eyed YouTuber YoungYea spotted that Sony'due south official PS5 user interface reveal had a shot of the storage section, which showed only 664GB of available SSD space. With what appears to be no games installed, it would seem similar the PS5'due south operating system gobbles upward around 20 percent of the panel'southward super-fast SSD.

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We need to proceed with some caution here, as the screenshot the YouTuber captured appears to be a console development kit. As such, some storage space could exist given over to diagnostic tools and other developer-centric software. Or the development kit PS5 might come with a smaller SSD.

Given PS5 exclusive games are set up to crave big amounts of SSD infinite — Demon'south Souls Remastered is set to crave at least 66GB — it would seem very odd for Sony to surrender more than than 20GB or so to the PS5'due south operating system.

The PS5's internal storage will be upgradable with off-the-shelf Sony-canonical PCIe 4.0 SSDs. But those aren't readily available yet and are likely to be rather expensive, meaning every gigabyte on the PS5 is likely to be treasured.

Every bit developers get used to PS5 hardware, they could find means to reduce the size of their games, say through smart texture and asset compression. But at launch information technology would appear that the PS5's 825GB SDD might be mightily fast but also not exactly a vehicle for massive game libraries.

And the Xbox Serial X isn't probable to fare much meliorate here. It's got a larger but slower 1TB SSD. However, the Xbox Ane Ten has a 1TB drive that can fill up rather fast, particularly with Xbox Game Laissez passer downloads. And so nosotros suspect the same will exist truthful of the Xbox Serial X, making the external plug 'n' play external SSD an expensive but almost essential upgrade.

With the Xbox Series X beingness released November 10 and the PS5 coming out on Nov 12, we've not got long to wait before we tin try out these next-generation games consoles ourselves and run into how much storage you actually get.

Roland Moore-Colyer is U.K. Editor at Tom's Guide with a focus on news, features and opinion articles. He frequently writes about gaming, phones, laptops and other bits of hardware; he'due south also got an interest in cars. When not at his desk Roland tin be constitute wandering around London, ofttimes with a look of marvel on his confront.

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