Exactly! I get the feeling that so many of the posters who think the Series S is a huge mistake are a demographic that this device is not even targeting. They're like add more space! Improve Performance! Yeah, that's why the Series X exists for people who want more space and more performance. For those of you that keep talking about the Series X being a better value, yeah, it's a better value to you because you are an enthusiast.
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You just buy a regular hard drive in an enclosure and move the games across that you want to quick resume or play the most.
ehhh... it's not the end of the world or anything, but if your suggestion to price-conscious consumers is "just spend more money," I'm not sure it's a great pitch...
My 'strange' take seems to be fairly common, but ok.
Not quite.
I can add to this that I share my account with my nephew, so he have access to all game pass, Games with Gold (so 100+ games). Guess what, he only cares about the games you named. The majority are actually perfectly fine with two or three games per year and don't collect. When they finish a game they sell it or delete it for good.
The Series S comes with a 500GB drive too. This is after the OS and reserved space for game saved states, something the PS3 had to have allocated for as well (though not as much of course, it didn't have room for more than one saved-state nor did it use 4K graphics in the OS). And that 500GB drive in the PS3 wasn't solid state nor particularly fast, definitely not a best-in-class device like the one in the Series S. I mean, it costs $230 for a 1TB drive at this speed, but this entire console is $300.
Why would anyone need to think about it right out of the gate? COD is only 50GB for the mode everyone gets the game for, multiplayer. And even if they want to play through the campaign, it's still going to be less than 200GB for everything on the Series S version, that they can uninstall when they finish with the campaign (how much less than 200GB will have to be seen)
You can get 1 tb of cold storage for 20 bucks. Anyone who's interested in a budget console isn't going to buy the most expensive storage option.
You can't run any native software off of that though, so not much point in it, might as well just download the software as needed.
I know it's the same capacity. But the PS3 had more available space, and that's a two generation old system. That's pretty sad in my book. Especially when PS3 games were often less than half what they are today.
For people who have shitty internet, this would be far more reasonable purchase than buying 220$ storage expansion. 20$ bucks and transferring to and from an hdd seems like reasonable compromise for anyone who's gaming on a budget.
But what's sad about it? Yes, old devices could get vastly inferior slow drives. I just don't see your point. Storage space hasn't been a bullet point of the consoles this generation, speed has been, and speed is expensive. And if you look at the PS3 *launch*, it had two available sizes: 20GB and 60GB, for $500 and $600 respectively. The 500GB PS3 Super Slim came out just one year before the PS4, it was the second console refresh of its generation..
They have to store the OS textures and animations on storage, and cache those textures and animations from the store and from installed games, and 4K assets are 4 times the size of 1080p assets. But it's more about the space allocated for state saving (Quick Resume), hopefully you can tell it to use less for that since I personally don't ever use it on my current consoles even for one game (I only ever play one major game at a time personally).
With new console generations, I expect large leaps forward in all aspects. And storage capacity is so important from a user point of view. Considering how little the amount of storage has changed over not one, but two generations... I'm somewhat disappointed. Especially since it's also a step back from launch Xbox One, and One S. The 500GB PS3 was a late model yes, but still an old ass console at this point. Hopefully there'll be a 1TB model of Series S not too far off.
Yeah, I think Quick Resume and possibly video recording (?) is eating up a lot.
Series S plus expansion = $520 for 1.5TB storage, Series X = $500 for 1TB storage and support for 4k and a disc drive that can play 4k blu rays and retail game discs.
Err..
Again..youre comparing shopping for an Xbox to shopping for essential items like groceries....last I checked 'groceries' predominantly implies FOOD. You can't just isolate ketchup, 'because it can't sustain you', out of all the food people buy in a Costco to justify the comparison to a videogame console.
It is. Again, Sony had the balls to sell a PS3 with 12GB of storage which automatically meant certain games were not able to be played on the console *at all*. People will be fine and find a way, external storage is known by many customers I think.
The irony is staggering.
Because you can only have 5 - 12 games locally on your console at a time?
That's what I thought, but apparently, based on that Quick Resume thread, nearly everyone here only plays one game at a time so who knows.
Jeff Grubb had a good take in his review-- it's a console with compromises.
