You need to buy a 2TB drive from a store like Amazon, or a offline store like Best Buy which sells 2.5 inch hard drives, and install the 2TB drive yourself, or hire someone to do it for you.
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You need to buy a 2TB drive from a store like Amazon, or a offline store like Best Buy which sells 2.5 inch hard drives, and install the 2TB drive yourself, or hire someone to do it for you.
I think we'll just get the $50 blu-ray player with PS Now. So that's 300+ streaming PS3 games. All we need is a controller.
$50 is a good deal for a Blu-Ray player with PS Now and other features. I remember the time when a good Blu-Ray and DVD players cost over $100, and it was not that long ago.
I really wish they did but looking at amazon 2TB drive is an extra $100 which I can see why they wouldn't want to tack on that cost or take the loss.
Agreed. Really looking forward to it!
The only thing is though DS, companies never pay what we consumers pay. They pay like 20-30% less at least. Plus if they're ordering them in huge batches then they may get even higher discounts. So likely the cost of the 1TB wouldn't be much more than the 500GB drive they put in. The 2TB likely wouldn't be that much more expensive (over the 1TB or 500GB) for them either. Though if they didn't want to go for the 2TB on the base model I'd be ok with that if they put 2TB on the PS4 Pro.
I know bulk buying can be cheaper, but I can't say for sure if that is for all items or not.
I saw on the news that consoles are generally sold at a loss, and make most of its money when people buy a few games, controllers, DLC, and subscriptions. Console makers may lose more money if they use larger and more expensive hard drives, but still keeping the price below $400 or $500.
Hard drive makers have to pay for the metal, magnets, chips, and plastic to make the hard drive. They also need to pay patent fees to the rightful owners of the patents who created the hard drive's firmware/driver software, and patents for physical parts like screws, chips, motors, and materials which are needed to make the hard drives, so hard drives may still cost a lot even after bulk buying.
2TB and larger hard drives may also require slightly more materials, and patent fees if it uses new tech patents to make them.
Bulk buying too many more expensive hard drives is also risky. Sony could be stuck with a lot of unsold more expensive PS4s with 2TB hard drives if the PS4 cost more, and don't have enough good games in the future which most average gamers wants to play.
Average buyers could end up mostly buying the cheaper Xbox One 500 GB version which also supports USB external expandable storage where users can hook up a external USB hard drive up to 16TB in size or a faster external USB 3.0 SSD drive to the Xbox One USB 3.0 port when users run low on internal drive space. The Xbox One supports an external hard drive which is up to 16TB in size according to N4G.
I think Sony and Microsoft may also be getting a good discount by buying a lot of the world's remaining 500 GB hard drives since almost no computer system builder or hobbyist computer bulder will buy a 500 GB hard drives in 2016 to install in laptops, desktop PCs, and DVR devices except for people on a very tight budget where they can't afford a 1TB or larger hard drive. A lot of hard drive companies maybe selling their remaining stock of 500GB hard drives at a loss or below the actual cost it is to make them before almost no company buys the hard drive, and the drives end up being too small to use for most tasks like smaller sized 128MB USB Flash drives from the early days of flash drives.
I bet, not many companies are still actively making, and selling 500 GB hard drives these days, and rather recover their warehouse space to store 1 TB, 2TB, and larger sized hard drives which are easier to sell.
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Point taken, also don't forget that HDD have to be built in a clean room.
The hard drive's moving parts also need to be very carefully made, and assembled since if the hard drive platters/disks can be damage if the plates or read and write head are slightly too thick.