Oh I won’t, I don’t even have a PS5 yet 
Hopefully by the time there’s enough there to warrant a purchase for me, most of the kinks will have been ironed out.
I’d wager the vast majority of owners have no plans to upgrade their drives anyway, so I doubt this has any major impact. I’m sure once this is out of beta, Sony will partner with various manufacturers to create an approved list for installation.
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To me, it is still a big oversight, especially in terms of the actual process of posing the expansion.
I think that’s right. The casual gamer probably only has a handful of titles they’ll buy, much less have installed at the same time. And even though some of those are Call of Duty monsters, I believe the PS5 has been doing well at keeping filesizes down in general so it probably won’t be a huge deal.
I still think that this is another in a series of frankly puzzling decisions Sony have made about the system, but I’m willing to cut a lot of slack because of the pandemic ¯\(ツ)/¯
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All joking aside, this is actually more onerous than I had realized. Not an insurmountable task, but yeah, nowhere near as cut and dry as the Xbox solution.
Warren kinda gives me a Nick Frost vibe here, anyone else?
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They have 10 million beat testers ahead
So being a proprietary solution is cheaper?
Damn I didn’t see that coming
I think the big advantages of non-proprietary are that the price isn’t dictated by a single company so it’s more likely to get cheaper over time, and that you could use it for something else if you were so inclined (e.g. you sell your PS5 and can use the drive for your computer or something)
Price getting cheaper is a sure thing.
But it will surley happen for the Xbox SSD as well.
Using the SSD on something else is really advantageous.
Oh yeah, no doubt, but that’s up to Seagate and Microsoft as opposed to any other manufacturer who’s willing to make something compatible and priced competitively. I have a Vita so 
Did they even at least release a compatibility list? I can’t find an official one.
Also I think I read they increased the fan speed to produce better airflow through the nvme drive, but I agree with you. Even if that’s the case, without a heatsink, that air won’t do much to cool the drive.
This definitely applies to me.
Hahahahahahaha. More like 9.999.999m beta testers because im not testing shit!!! lol
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As far as I know, they just posted the requirements, and Digital Foundry compiled a list of compatible drives.
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I forgot about it being tied to fan speed adjustments. Wonder what the end effects of that will be.
And no, no official list or anything from Sony. That would put the responsibility on them if anything hiccups. They’re not having anything of the sort.
What’s funny is there’s even places even as esteemed as DigitalFoundry saying the following when no one knows of possible impacts:
“Note that the Aorus NVMe drive is listed as being 11.4mm tall, just above the 11.25mm maximum height, but I tested the same heatsink with a drive inserted and it seems to fit OK, not preventing the drive cover from being installed. We’re leaving it on our list of recommendations for now.”
Horizon might be delayed. Not a surprise. 
No surprise at all. Since it’s 2020 reveal, I have been saying February 2022. February 25th to be exact. We’ll see if I get that right.
Grubb’s record is 49-10. That’s pretty damn good. 83% accuracy.
Might be a surprise to the people who seemed to think that Sony was not affected by the pandemic because of reasons.
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IF Horizon Zero Dawn doesn’t hit this holiday then Xbox could do some serious work with both Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite launching, as Halo looks and plays great during the tech preview.
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Yeah, but I think there will be no consoles on shelves this holiday regardless of what games they put out. People will be happy to play the last 12 months of games once they get their hand on one.