First major PS5 update releases tomorrow; allows transferring of PS5 games to USB extended storage

wurstpistole · Apr 14, 2021

As always, don't update if you want homebrew

gohan123 · Apr 14, 2021

they could atleast allow some games to be played off the external drive. I'm sure there are plenty or even the majority of games which doesn't use ps5 tech properly. like third party games or even just some indies. I think the most games on ps4 with app2usb still worked great with a usb 2.0 external drive, even if official extended option only allowed usb 3.0.

D34DL1N3R · Apr 14, 2021

And still no Dolby Vision support for the 4K Blu-ray player. I guess the PS5 isn't ready for all of the Sony tv's that have Dolby Vision support and also advertised as "READY FOR PS5!!!!". It pisses me off that I spend $500+ on their new console and they expect me to dish out another few hundred on a stand alone 4K player that DOES have Dolby Vision. This is one instance where I'll say "Fuck you, Sony!!!". I couldn't care less about expandable storage as I never have more than a handful of games on my consoles anyway. I finish one and delete it, instead of trying to play 50 games at one time and keep all of their stories and control schemes separated from one another. The only games that ever stay on my consoles are ones heavy on multiplayer like a racing game or something, or casual games that you can pick up and play briefly and put back down within 30 minutes.

SilverWah · Apr 14, 2021

We are losing digital stores for the PS3, PSP and PSVita to incompetence like this.
Fuck Sony.

D34DL1N3R · Apr 15, 2021

SilverWah said:
We are losing digital stores for the PS3, PSP and PSVita to incompetence like this.
Fuck Sony.

Were you thinking about making some major purchases on the PS3, PSP and PSVita stores? I doubt you were even considering spending a cent until they announced it.

SilverWah · Apr 15, 2021

D34DL1N3R said:
Were you thinking about making some major purchases on the PS3, PSP and PSVita stores? I doubt you were even considering spending a cent until they announced it.

Not really tbh but still upsetting.

D34DL1N3R · Apr 15, 2021

SilverWah said:
Not really tbh but still upsetting.

But why? No one cared until it was announced. All three systems are moddable with backups available in many places, not to mention any past purchases can still be redownloaded.

Deathwing Zero · Apr 15, 2021

Tom Bombadildo said:
The problem with that is the fast storage isn't just being used to benefit only loading screens, the PS5 (and Sexbox, too) can stream texture data directly to the GPU/CPU from their storage devices, as opposed to it going from storage to RAM/VRAM to CPU/GPU. If a slower NVMe was used, you wouldn't just get an extra second of loading time, things like textures or particles or whatever other data is being loaded would have serious pop in issues that might make playing a game impossible, or at least not very fun.

I don't expect all games will actually use that feature, but I suspect many will so it's not exactly a good solution to just use whatever and hope for the best TBH

The fact that there are also m.2 NVMe drives without DRAM cache which would exacerbate that problem as well. On top of that, whether the drive has a DRAM cache or not is not advertised. Of course, even if it was it's not like everyone would understand what that even means. I'm not really surprised Sony hasn't done anything yet with the m.2 expansion. I wouldn't even be surprised if they only allowed proprietary ones to resolve all the issues you've pointed out. Time will tell, I suppose.

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