Current Events > they're saying PS5 games can't currently be stored on external HDD

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/11/sadly_you_cant_store_ps5_games_on_an_external_hdd

As our PlayStation 5 review outlined earlier in the day, theres currently no way to store next-gen games on an external HDD. While weve always known that youll need to use the SSD to boot PS5 titles, many had hoped that youd be able to move games across to a separate storage unit should you need to save space. At the time of writing, thats not the case.

While you can move PlayStation 4 games backwards-and-forwards between the SSD and an external HDD, the same option does not apply to next-gen software. This is disappointing and something we hope Sony fixes, because depending on your Internet connection, its always going to be quicker to transfer from a USB storage device than downloading games all over again.

And thats not to mention those people who have bandwidth caps to contend with!

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Lol $ony

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Lol rekt

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Ughh im so glad I won't be buying this system anytime soon. This is a seriously bad issue.

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Why do they do this?

Same for Xbox but theres a $200 accessory for that

The fix is just delete what you dont need! You only need 1 game at a time!

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The fuck this has to be a bug. Did they not straight up state PS5 games can be stored on external HDDs?
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Bio1590 posted...

The fuck this has to be a bug. Did they not straight up state PS5 games can be stored on external HDDs?

No

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JoeRodonExprien posted...

Why do they do this?

Same for Xbox but theres a $200 accessory for that

It is not true of Xbox.
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I really can't fathom how people can still support Sony.

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Vyrulisse posted...

I really can't fathom how people can still support Sony.

What other options? I have my Nintendo

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

What other options? I have my Nintendo

PC. Consoles need to die.

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Games can take up 100-200Gb on pc. Console is going to have those kind of textures now also. This is such boneheaded thing to screw up on.

Vyrulisse posted...

PC. Consoles need to die.

Oh.... Yeah no. I can't fit that in my entertainment console.

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

Oh.... Yeah no

No my statement is completely real and true. Consoles have literally nothing to offer gaming and hold it back in many ways. They only survive on moneyhatted exclusives which would be made for everyone if the Sonys of the world didn't hoard them like greedy dragons.

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

Oh.... Yeah no. I can't fit that in my entertainment console.

Ya you can. There are super small computer cases and motherboards.

Vyrulisse posted...

No my statement is completely real and true. Consoles have literally nothing to offer gaming and hold it back in many ways. They only survive on moneyhatted exclusives which would be made for everyone if the Sonys of the world didn't hoard them like greedy dragons.

This is a very weird take.

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bnui_ransder posted...

The fix is just delete what you dont need! You only need 1 game at a time!

Vyrulisse posted...

Consoles have literally nothing to offer gaming and hold it back in many ways

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More reason to hold off until the inevitable revision.

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Jabodie posted...

More reason to hold off until the inevitable revision.

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I thought they said the console supports external HDH storage, just not external SSD.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

I thought they said the console supports external HDH storage, just not external SSD.

Apparently that only applies to PS4 games.

Watching people defend this as "Who needs that much space?????? I only play 2-3 games at a time??????" is hilarious
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They need to just tell us what expansion SSD's are compatible.

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That is fine. As long as Spiderman is playable.

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

They need to just tell us what expansion SSD's are compatible.

There are none lmao

They also made the enclosure fucking tiny so there will be some that could be compatible but won't be because they won't even fucking fit
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Like what the fuck man, how is this even possible.

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JoeRodonExprien posted...

Why do they do this?

Same for Xbox but theres a $200 accessory for that

You CAN store Xbox Series Games on a standard External Drive, you just cant play the games from it

IE; you need to move the games to system memory/Memory Card to play, but if Download is too problematic, you can store them.

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tbh, I used to never really think about external HDDs, but I got one for my PS4 about a month ago, and it's a game changer

it's dope not having to uninstall stuff so you can play new games, and then have to re-install when you want to play something older.

so I'm pretty disappointed by this, but I think that it'll be something that will be added later on (hopefully)

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SuperVegitoFAN posted...

but if Download is too problematic

It doesn't even have to come down to "download is too problematic". It's much faster to go Drive -> Drive than downloading.
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g0ldie posted...

tbh, I used to never really think about external HDDs, but I got one for my PS4 about a month ago, and it's a game changer

it's dope not having to uninstall stuff so you can play new games, and then have to re-install when you want to play something older.

so I'm pretty disappointed by this, but I think that it'll be something that will be added later on (hopefully)

Also at least with the PS4, depending what model you have games actually load/run quicker and better when stored on an external >_>

But the fact they're plug + play on any PS4 you sign into with your account as well...and while you can only have 1 plugged in at a time, you can use as many as you want so you (theoretically) have infinite storage...this is just so dumb.
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Bio1590 posted...

Also at least with the PS4, depending what model you have games actually load/run quicker and better when stored on an external >_>

But the fact they're plug + play on any PS4 you sign into with your account as well...and while you can only have 1 plugged in at a time, you can use as many as you want so you (theoretically) have infinite storage...this is just so dumb.

I don't really know anything about external HDDs (I have a laptop & never used one before), but yea, bought a 2 TB Seagate external HDD for my PS4 Slim, and some of the load times have seemed quicker

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So the HDD is only for PS4 games? Really weird way to embrace backwards compatibility lol
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g0ldie posted...

I don't really know anything about external HDDs (I have a laptop & never used one before), but yea, bought a 2 TB Seagate external HDD for my PS4 Slim, and some of the load times have seemed quicker

It's because the PS4 Phat and the PS4 Slim both only use SATA II for the internal drive, so a SATA III HDD connected via the USB 3.0 ports will be faster. It's actually pretty amusing how many tests of different setups you can find online.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

So the HDD is only for PS4 games? Really weird way to embrace backwards compatibility lol

You can play ps4 games without it being on an external hard drive, if that's what your trying to say.

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bnui_ransder posted...

The fix is just delete what you dont need! You only need 1 game at a time!

GaaS time to shine!

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It'll probably be something that'll be patched in a year or two. Like themes and folders.

People complained that the Xbox Series X OS hasn't changed but stuff like this is a downside when they start from scratch.

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https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-5-review

lmao near the end of the article, IGN literally had to go back and update it to say only PS4 games. They probably didn't even test it
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bump

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one more

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yea, but it's not really ideal.


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Lmao. When y'all going to stop bullshitting and get a PC?

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Captain_Qwark posted...

Can't you just delete the games when you're done with them and redownload them later if you want to play? You can do that now on ps4.

Yeah.

But just to go back to an example I keep using for moving files around, DBZ Kakarot is around 55 GB and on the PS4 Pro takes less than 10 minutes to move in either direction (internal -> external or vice-versa). On the PS5 something like that would ostensibly be even quicker.

But downloading it though? Significantly longer than that, not to mention it swamps my connection and makes everything else slow as shit so I can really only download games overnight or when no one is home.
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Yeah...this is why I'm going back to physical for PS5. At the least I just need to re-install games which isn't nearly as long as re-downloading.
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Apparently the PS5 is going to download much quicker than the PS4 can but that obviously doesn't mean shit for people with slower connections (me) or data caps.
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yea, my connection is also pretty slow.

downloading something like Red Dead Redemption 2 was an overnight kinda thing.

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lmao I can only imagine, that game takes like 90 minutes to install just from the fucking disc

E: I deleted AC Odyssey and pretty much acknowledged I was never going to play it again, because the base game is only ~50 GB but it's more than double that size with all the DLC
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