Elephant in the room: the proprietary SSD external card slot

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#1 GalvatronType_R
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Everything about the gen 9 console has been pro consumer except for this.

Those Seagate cards are proprietary and Seagate can charge whatever they want due to no competition. Gen 9 games can be stored on an external USB drive but must be played from the internal NVME or the Seagate card.

Not good....

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PS vita rings a bell.

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#3 Willy105
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Reminds me of the 360 memory cards. As long as its not the only way to store games, I think its cool.

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#4 Rewnami
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@Willy105: Wow, I had to look that up. I honestly don't even remember if I had a 360 memory card.

Yeah Idk, that proprietary Seagate card sounded pretty expensive too. If it works with the Series S then I will keep it in mind, since that would be a pretty easy way to expand the low capacity of that SSD for next-gen games.

That would be pretty far down the road for me though. I think. I guess it depends on which games come out exclusively for the Series and which are still available for One.

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#5  Edited By unreal223
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The PS5 is using m.2 but does it have 2 slots? If there is only one then you will end up spending just as much for a 2tb card.