With 667GB of free space as standard, some users are already pulling calculators to find out how many games they will be able to have installed on the internal SSD of the PlayStation 5 . Although most likely many others are thinking of immediately putting an M.2 SSD disk to expand the memory, but can it be done?
Memory upgrade will come in the future
One of the features that PlayStation 5 will offer is that we can expand the internal memory with other SSD units that we buy separately. The folding structure of the console allows the outer casing to be removed to access the compartment where we will have access to the M.2 SSD connection socket, but it seems that we will still have to wait to be able to do that.
And we are not referring to the fact of opening the console and accessing the socket (we know that this will happen on November 19), but to the function of expanding the internal memory itself. As The Verge has learned, the PS5 will not support new storage units until later, as, according to them, it is a function “reserved for a future update.”
Why isn’t it ready for launch?
Actually, this is something that was already known. If you were aware of the Sony conference held by Mark Cerny last March, the manager previewed the characteristics of the internal SSD and how the internal controller would work with third-party drives.
Due to the complications involved in using M.2 SSD drives from various manufacturers, the memory controller may not work properly, and it should also be taken into account that the drive itself enters the compartment prepared for it, since some commercial solutions include large heatsinks and have larger dimensions than normal.
Due to all these problems, Sony is currently conducting a series of tests and certifications with which to be able to guarantee which SSD units on the market are compatible with PlayStation 5, hence the possibility of expanding the internal memory comes later as a upgrade system.
You’re going to have to settle for the 667GB
That said, now we can only settle for the free space that the console will offer from day one, which will be approximately 667GB, since the operating system will consume the rest until reaching the original 825GB of the PS5 SSD. So what can we install?
With the data that we know today, the first games that will accompany the launch of PS5 are the following:
- SackBoy: A Big Adventure: installation will occupy 32GB
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales: installation will occupy 50GB
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Launch Edition : version that includes the remastering of Spider-Man and will occupy 105GB .
- Demon’s Souls: installation of 66 GB.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War – 133GB full install .
If you have taken the calculator, you will be able to verify that the installation of all these games (something quite possible in many users) will take half the disk space, so we would have another 300GB left to continue installing future games, or games from the catalog of PlayStation Plus Collection.