CamHostage
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Really? If true that's not bad. I thought Xbox proprietary was supposed to be so much MORE expensive???
If the rumored price is true, it is, as far as price/performance ratio goes; it is not, in terms of just price/quantity.
These Samsung cards are new-to-market levels of speed for SSDs (which unfortunately is the minimum of what PS5 will support) and so it comes at a premium cost right now, whereas if you were to shop for M.2 cards in the range that meets the Xbox SX requirements, they would already be cheaper (but Xbox does not have a standard M.2 card slot, it only takes its own proprietary drives.) So at launch, PS5 expansion options will be more per GB than the Xbox option; over time that difference will whittle down as Pro-spec M.2s increase in competition and come down in price, while proprietary hardware tends to stick at MSRP for longer.
It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft can keep pace when the market starts to shuffle the prices down, and/or will that happen fast enough for the PS5's solution to be 'more affordable'? (Or I wonder how long if ever it will be until somebody rigs an "adapter" for off-the-shelf M.2s to plug into the Xbox card slot to bypass the problem the way SD adapters skirted around the PSP's Memory Stick Duo slot?) And while paying for bleeding-edge cards comes with the "upside" of elite-level speeds, will we see games that actually benefit from that speed or is the Xbox SX's level of speed "enough" for games & game engines this gen?
It's a hard launch for those who are looking for a fully-stocked system right off the bat, but as somebody else already said, it's not even year one yet, both consoles have a long road ahead...
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