PlayStation 5 Is Getting 1440p Monitor Support

[DrezKill]

And even though I have FIOS fiber 1g internet, downloading ANYTHING from Sony/PSN is STUPIDLY slow. ...I haven't had xbox since 360 so can't comment on the MS side.

Microsoft's service is just as bad. I don't know how things are for 9th-gen consoles, but during 7th-gen and 8th-gen, neither PSN nor XBL came close to utilizing the full bandwidth of my FiOS connection (which used to be 75Mbps (though we never saw below 80) and which is now 120Mbps). If I hit 60Mbps when downloading through those services I considered it very lucky, cuz most of the time they were anywhere from the mid 20s to 50s.

I love downloading sh1t through Steam cuz it uses the full 120Mbps available to me.

In the 360 days the games were much smaller. Also my internet was much slower.

Yeah cuz X360 was just working with regular dual-layer DVDs, so games didn't exceed 8.5GB or whatever size those discs were. I didn't get FiOS until 2013 (which is the year 8th-gen started - well technically 2012 if you count Wii U), so yeah I didn't have fast Internet during the X360/PS3 days either. Whatever crap Comcast was slingin' at the time. Don't recall the speed.

But the days of "throw the disc in and play" are LONG gone.

I actually like the install method. Even during 7th-gen I installed X360 games to the HDD, and Wii games to the external HDD I was using with my soft-modded system. I don't mind the initial up-front waiting to install the game, if it means the game just runs from the HDD from then on. Reduces wear on the optical drive too. But yeah it sure was convenient when you could pop in a cartridge or disc and immediately run the game from that.

Now 2tb won't even hold you very long, the stupid games are 100gb and up now.

Even on my PC I had put off playing some games I owned for years just because I didn't have the f*cking space to install them. The SSD sizes on the 9th-gen consoles are laughable. I understand why the sizes are so small, but yeah that's not very helpful. My PS3 was a 40GB unit (I believe the first model that had no PS2 back-compat whatsoever) which I bought refurbished, so I immediately threw a brand-new 320GB 7200rpm drive in there (7th-gen and 8th-gen consoles used 5400rpm drives). Most of my games ran off discs, so I never came close to filling up that HDD. On X360 I ran stock so all I had was the 120GB HDD that came with my X360 Elite, and I definitely used most of that space when Microsoft updated the system to allow us to install games to the HDD so they won't run off the discs. I forgot how big the HDD I use with my Wii is, but I did use a lot of that space cuz I was loading a lot of game ISOs off there (WiiWare and Virtual Console games didn't take up as much space). My PS4 has a 1TB HDD, don't recall how much space I'm currently using on that. XB1 I barely use, but I think it has a 500GB HDD that's almost full.

I remember back on my PIII PC I had a 20GB HDD, and wondered how the f*ck I was possibly going to use all that space.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I remember back on my PIII PC I had a 20GB HDD, and wondered how the f*ck I was possibly going to use all that space.

I remember those kinds of days. PCIe 4.0 NVMe took care of that. I can't really afford anything over 2TB but that's still plenty for what I'm actually playing.

 

[Tempest]

Wow, I would've grateful for a sentence or two to point me in the right direction. Instead I received a PhD-level education in PlayStation. You guys have been a tremendous help! I can't thank you all enough for the responses. Hopefully this has been an enlightening discussion for others as well.