Sony’s teaming up with Seagate to bring a new officially licensed PlayStation 4 external hard drive to store shelves – or you can just pick up the unbranded version for a few bucks less. The new 2TB game drive – which has apparently been “rigorously tested and optimised” for the PS4 – plugs directly into the console via USB, and will allow you to store up to 50 new games.
There’s a big PlayStation Blog post explaining why this is the bee's knees, but it’s basically just an external HDD with the PlayStation logo in the corner. Even more amusingly, this licensed model is set to retail for $89.99 in the United States, but you can already purchase the “non-official” version for less from Amazon:
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All snark aside, this is a nice looking HDD that’s plug-and-play and doesn’t require an external power source. Maybe consider going with the non-branded version unless you really, really need that PlayStation logo, though.
[source blog.us.playstation.com]
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yeah they do the same thing for the XBOX ONE and they are about the same price too
I kinda want it. Gamers...
My ps4 seagate firecuda internal hdd still have about 200gb+, so I should be fine for 2 or 3 "big" games. I need to delete my unplayed games.
The playstation logo is cool though
My regular Seagate HDD that's hooked up to my PS4 cost me roughly around $50 cause it was on sale.
No thanks, Sony.
I have no problem deleting litlle-to-no-played games from my original 500GB hard drive if I need the space for something new.
Nice looking external drive though👍🏽
Just like the Nintendo branded SD cards. Pay more, have less... but with an extra logo!
“For the payers”
yeaaaah.................no.
I had 2 seagate external HDD die on me for reasons unknown.
Just go with Western Digital or Toshiba
It is a nice logo though...
I'm satisfied with my 5tb so I'll pass
Funnily enough, I actually stuck a sticker of the logo on my external hard drive anyway. It's one of the ones from the PS magazine to cover the light bar but it works quite well.
I haven't got it, but I'd probably get the "official" Xbox version just cuz the green looks cool imo.
I still have 2TB on my 8TB drive, but the fact that games take up that much space is crazy. Next gen is only going to be worse.
Nah, got an 8TB already. I'm good.
@lacerz Yeah, that's what I've been saying since this gen started. Hopefully the new systems have a good amount of space this time around. I dunno how everyone else feels, but I wouldn't mind paying a little extra for the console if there's good storage.
Yeah I'll probably just delete stuff if I need to.
You'd be surprised how much I've paid for a tiny little Sony or PlayStation logo over the years.
Thanks, OCD.
Why do I want this even though I don't need it?
@DerMeister
I’d pay more up front for a larger drive, so long as the cost wasn’t out of proportion to what is readily available, like the HDD here. I bought a 2TB replacement for the internal, then a 4TB external and now an 8TB since the 4TB ran out of space. That’s money I would gladly pay up front to avoid doing it later on.
@lacerz Expect PS5 to launch with a "generous" 1TB sized base model. The 500mb PS4 was insulting.
@BowTiesAreCool
Hahaha! 1TB would be good for maybe 6-8 games, especially if the PS5 continues Sony’s tradition of reserving 9% of the HDD space.
I upgraded my internal to a 2TB and still ended up deleting stuff. And wouldn’t you know it, the spouse wanted to play one of those games last night. Coincidentally I ordered the 4TB version last night.
The next console had better have space for a full size HDD.
@lacerz Ikr, when I got my PS4 in 2014 I thought I was really smart by upgrading to a 1TB HDD. And I agree, I think it's an issue that will get worse.
Yeah pay twice as much for a cool logo, thats gonna be a no from me dog. May as well just spend half and throw a sticker on there lol
@BowTiesAreCool I'm expecting 2TB with the launch PS5, by then they should be dirt cheap.
The 8Tb Seagate external is only $149 Why not pay a little more for so much more space.
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-External-STEB8000100/dp/B01HAPGEIE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1548826392&sr=8-4&keywords=8tb+external+hard+drive+usb+3.0
Am I right in thinking I can just purchase this as an external hard drive and use it straight from the pack as an extension of my current hard drive, to store games and game saves on?
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