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Sony's Smaller PS5 With a Detachable Disc Drive Lands in November
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It will be on sale from November and available from normal stores instead of scalpers around next November.
It's still just a shitty PS5.
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It's still 10X cheaper to use discs. A 64GB microSD is still $9-10 which is amazing from a tech perspective but on a $70 game, that's 15% of cost. Also there is a price floor for anything made from NAND, it's very cheap but it'll never be "pennies" cheap to manufacture.
I can snag 50GB Blu Ray blanks for around $1-2 a disc and those are for home writer drives, the ones manufactured for the factory I have to imagine are even cheaper
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And discs can just be stamped out. For an SD, you need to write and verify each and every one.
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True, the only company using carts is Nintendo with the Switch so I suppose the economics make sense for them but also lot's of Switch titles, especially first party ones never go on sale as cheap as Playstation or XBox titles a year out of print.
Also checking the size of something like Tears of the Kingdom and that is large by switch standards at 18GB but many games on PC and other platforms easily push up into 50, 60 sometimes over 100GB
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Sony invested waaaaay too much money into Blu-ray. They will do anything they can to keep that technology alive until they back a new standard - which will probably also be terrible again. Because every technology standard, especially related to storage, that they come up with is absolute garbage.
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Are you indicating that you know something about a more viable option? Others have made the point in the thread: Blu-Ray discs are about a fifth the cost of SD cards at retail; even with wholesale discounts, one would expect that disparity to roughly track at best, or favor Blu-Ray discs, more likely. I don't think Sony is likely to do this; they already allow aftermarket NVMe drives to be installed in a PS5, and they support USB connected hard drives as well. I don't think they're going to spend engineerin
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None of which is relevant.
Even if costs of SD cards did approach that of Blu-ray, Sony will never abandon Blu-ray. Not unless they have a hand in inventing what replaces it - whatever it might be. Blu-ray isn't even that good of a technology to begin with (HD DVDs were going to be sooo much better without requiring new hardware), but because it's Sony's baby they forced it down everyone's throats and, luckily for them, succeeded this time. They tried the same shit with Betamax, UMD, MiniDisc, Memory Stick..
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Correct. But irrelevant.
Incorrect. I just dislike all Sony technology and am old enough to remember all of it.
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Blu-ray is 17 years old now. Sony are probably amazed that it hasn't been superseded yet. I like physical discs, but they are becoming increasingly irrelevant in the face of digital game and movie downloads. At this point, there may never be a popular new disc standard.
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Their next storage probably won't be disc based. But Sony is gunna keep forcing Blu-ray to stay alive for as long as possible, unless they are leading the charge of whatever replaces it - disc or otherwise. That is just Sony's way. They've held on to tech that's dead on arrival for years. So, Blu-ray being successful means they are going to keep milking it any way they can, until it's dead dead.
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They don't get easily scratched, and people may have a bunch of PS4 discs lying around. Sometimes the disc version is cheaper or available used. Maybe you want to have some way to play Blu Rays or DVDs or even CDs on your TV. When the price difference is only $50, you might as well get the Blu Ray player. I agree that disc free is better for gaming, but we're still in something of a transitory state.
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A 4 GB Switch cartridge still costs a lot more to manufacture than a Bluray disc does. Hell, it costs more than 2 Bluray discs do. The costs go up significantly as the price goes up.
We've long past the point where the majority of sales are digital, even if you remove digital-only games from the analysis. We're far more likely to remove physical media completely than we are to go back to cartridges.
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Why deal with cartridges that the dog can chew up? - and other non-problems we can think of.
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