Sandisk’s New Playstation 5 Ssd Will Cost You More Than Three Ps5 Pros

SanDisk has announced an costly way to boost nan PlayStation 5’s retention capacity. The company’s caller Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD is an officially licensed PS5 accessory successful capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The largest action tin shop up to 200 PS5 games (based connected mean installation sizes) SanDisk claims, but acknowledgment to nan global representation shortage, it will costs you $2,959.99 erstwhile it’s yet available done nan company’s online store, discounted from $3,699.99.

Even aft you return into relationship Sony’s recent console value hikes, you tin bargain 3 PS5 Pro consoles for nan value of conscionable 1 of these 8TB sticks. But nan smaller capacities are likewise expensive. The 4TB version is $1,499.99 (discounted from $1,874.99), while nan 2TB option is $759.99 (down from $949.99) — still $100 much costly than nan modular PS5.

The caller SSD features an “optimized heatsink built specifically for nan PS5 and PS5 Pro M.2 slot” and has been tested for some consoles truthful gamers tin “store much and play much pinch confidence,” according to SanDisk. A Western Digital SSD (SanDisk’s genitor brand) pinch akin specs to nan caller $3,000 action is currently disposable connected Amazon for $1,470. And arsenic VGC points out, according to nan price comparison tract PC Part Picker, that Western Digital SSD sold done retailers for illustration Best Buy and Newegg for astir $640 past year. When compared to this caller SSD, that’s complete a 360 percent value summation for nan aforesaid capacity. So while AI is potentially making games worse, it’s besides making them much costly to play.