They should be offering an upgrade deal, especially as everyone’s raised prices on consoles lately.
I always wanted a PS4. Never got one. I think the PS3 is better than the Xbox One. Yes, I’m aware the PS3 was the rival of the Xbox 360, and the PS4 was the rival of the Xbox One. I said what I said. I had the PS1, PS2, and PS3, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The Series X is a fine machine, but it’s what the Xbox One should have been. I felt that both XB1 and PS4 were nerfed by a bottleneck in the drive, but the PS4 made it easier to swap out for a SATA SSD, mitigating that factor — or so I’m told. The Xbox One had a rough start (requiring the Kinect sensor most people didn’t want) and it didn’t get much better. Still, it was not a bad game system, it just needed an SSD, a problem the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S directly addressed.
Actually swapping out the HDD for an SSD on the PS4 will do next to nothing performance wise, because in Sony’s “infinite wisdom”, the drive is connected using an internal SATA to USB 2 adapter. The only benefit you’ll get is instant seek times, but not better data transfer speeds.
They should be offering an upgrade deal, especially as everyone’s raised prices on consoles lately.
I always wanted a PS4. Never got one. I think the PS3 is better than the Xbox One. Yes, I’m aware the PS3 was the rival of the Xbox 360, and the PS4 was the rival of the Xbox One. I said what I said. I had the PS1, PS2, and PS3, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The Series X is a fine machine, but it’s what the Xbox One should have been. I felt that both XB1 and PS4 were nerfed by a bottleneck in the drive, but the PS4 made it easier to swap out for a SATA SSD, mitigating that factor — or so I’m told. The Xbox One had a rough start (requiring the Kinect sensor most people didn’t want) and it didn’t get much better. Still, it was not a bad game system, it just needed an SSD, a problem the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S directly addressed.
Actually swapping out the HDD for an SSD on the PS4 will do next to nothing performance wise, because in Sony’s “infinite wisdom”, the drive is connected using an internal SATA to USB 2 adapter. The only benefit you’ll get is instant seek times, but not better data transfer speeds.