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Luckily 4TB hard drives are on the market these days, however, their price alone would contribute significantly to the MSRP of the console.
by SapphireSun 11y ago
Luckily 4TB hard drives are on the market these days, however, their price alone would contribute significantly to the MSRP of the console.
- techdragon 11y agoYeah, at their level of bulk purchasing, it wouldn't. Cost on a Blue ray drive, cost of discs packaging, etc... All put together they would save. But they got bitten pretty hard by the "how dare you not let me sell my old games" crowd. That seems to have deterred them from "download only" distribution.
- jonknee 11y agoThe costs of discs and distribution don't come back to the console makers (for most titles). The hardware does and a Blu Ray drive is dirt cheap.
- daemin 11y agoIt's also better to have games on an SSD because it's an even faster loading time than spinnys. I've got my games on a 500"GB" SSD and it's always the most full disk. Although in good news the SSD disk storage sizes are only going up and the price is coming down, so by the next console generation it should be practical to put in a 1TB SSD into a cheap console.
- rosege 11y agoI looked at benchmarks for SSDs in consoles and they were saying not to bother because the difference to loading times was minimal