reptilescorpio
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Yeah, noooo. Even though you can install stuff on an external HDD , if the internal HDD crashes can you still use the x1???
Unlikely as the games need to be installed, downloads for the OS, etc.
Yeah, noooo. Even though you can install stuff on an external HDD , if the internal HDD crashes can you still use the x1???
Did you miss the similar PS4 thread?
Some of the people in the other thread must be feeling pretty silly now.
Why noooo? I don't get your reaction.
PS4 also gets less backlash for the simple reason that they've very sneakily managed expectations from the get-go.
Like half the features they talked about in the Feb event were aspirational with a bolded a. You could literally watch David Perry drop his spaghetti all over the stage by talking about stuff years from realisation.
Same with the whole 'launch in US & Europe' stick. Sony did the clever move by not announcing the no.of European countries, so they don't put a committal upfront.
Did you miss the similar PS4 thread?
I imagine it will cost upwards of 150$ to replace a hdd. I'm not paying that kinda of money when they could allow me to pop in a 30$ hdd.
Who is going to fill up 500GB while this feature is being finalized? You'd have to buy every game for the first 6 months and then some.
no, it was filled with, "ooooh, that's ok, I can just install a larger HDD day one. Thanks Sony!"
To the bolded, the reason people are using it as an example of MS rushing to launch is because they announced it as a feature when it obviously wasn't ready for launch.Some of us actually care about both the Xbox One and PS4 supporting this type of functionality and not petty point scoring between the two consoles. Obviously the Xbox One needs it more not having a replaceable internal drive but both should support it eventually.
I'm not sure it's fair to lampoon the Xbox One for not launching with this capability however, the only reason it's a big deal is because it doesn't have the fallback method to increase disk space for installed games of swapping the internal drive like the PS4 does.
Using this as an example of MS rushing things doesn't make sense to me when Sony hasn't even announced if the PS4 will ever support this functionality. It does appear to be more complex than I thought it was with the Wii U already being able to do this, I'm still not quite sure why.
Ah, I see. Maybe you'll get lucky and it ends up being a widespread issue!
Who is going to fill up 500GB while this feature is being finalized? You'd have to buy every game for the first 6 months and then some.
I'm holding off on getting launch console's, specially xbox after rrod fiasco. Really weird they would just remove the option to replace the hdd. Even the external cant be used till after launch. They comment on why they removed that option?
no, it was filled with, "ooooh, that's ok, I can just install a larger HDD day one. Thanks Sony!"
They never had it running in the first place. Lower down on the priority list, will get to it after launch.
Different circumstances.
1. This was the same as PS3's situation. If PS3 supported external and PS4 doesn't, everyone would be mad as well.
2. Sony never mentioned anything about supporting external hdd, only about user-replacibility of internal HDD. Sony's side of a clarification of a query.
3. Announced Xbox features not available for all countries or not-being-ready-day-one? There's like 100 of these type of thread ever since E3.
no, it was filled with, "ooooh, that's ok, I can just install a larger HDD day one. Thanks Sony!"
Is it confirmed that you cannot even use it as a storage? I know you cannot run games from it.
You can use any USB drive as storage on both ps3 and ps4.
So the PS4 not supporting games on external drives seems more ready to you? What's the point of external drive support then? 1TB of game saves? Lol. 500GB is going to take some time to fill, no need to get an external drive on day one. The cynics need not come out at every XBO thread, its getting old.
This is a non-issue IMO.
500GB out of the gate is a lot of space.
Cloud Storage out of the gate also provides a decent alternative.
it should hold people over at least a year or so and hopefully microsoft should have a solution in place for external hard drives.
WTF have they been doing for the last 12 months? Choosing tile border colors?
With the PS4, you can easily replace the internal HDD (even with an SSD!). Not being able to replace the internal drive is a very real drawback the Xbone has, external drive support in itself isn't that interesting. Sony has also never advertised being able to install games on external drives, while Microsoft did (and now won't deliver at launch).
no, it was filled with, "ooooh, that's ok, I can just install a larger HDD day one. Thanks Sony!"
Kind of.So Nintendo ends up learning its lesson the most from the last generation when it comes to data storage and treatment of indies.
This won't be the only thing not available at launch from what I've heard
Remember when Nintendo had the fridge analogy for the Wii? Good times, good times.It's not like we're going to fill up 500gb at launch.
And not even afterwards, unless you go digital-only. And even then, you just delete unused games.
This won't be the only thing not available at launch from what I've heard
This won't be the only thing not available at launch from what I've heard
Still FAT32 limitation, or can we now format it with superior filesystems?You can use any USB drive as storage on both ps3 and ps4.
Still FAT32 limitation, or can we now format it with superior filesystems?
Please tell us more...
Man, is this thing rushed or what?
You're saying there were no complaints? Or not enough for your liking?