PlayStation 4 is Sony's fourth home video game console, released on November 15, 2013 in North America, and November 29, 2013 in Europe. On November 10 2016, Sony released the Playstation 4 Pro, an updated version of the console targeting 4K gaming.
I really hope PS4 will support it properly. The PS3 could utilize one but it had no impact on load times or anything from what I read, which was a bummer.
No real reason why it shouldn't work, they have to be building the hardware in a way that would take full advantage of an SSD.
Only problem is the price. A 512gb SSD costs about the same as the console itself. Not sure how practical that is. They better also offer usb 3.0 external hdd compatibility like the xbox one. Obviously not as fast, but you can get 1-4TB drives for a fraction of the cost of an SSD and you don't have to sacrifice the internal drive.
Seems like some improvements can be seen but nothing to brag about. Seems like games are likely to load up slightly faster and installing should be faster then that but is it worth the upgrade? Also seems like it might fix some of Rage's texture problems.
I've noticed loading times for Last Of Us are really short with an SSD. I did bought the digital version so no reading from the disc. I can imagine it has the same sort of impact on the PS4. It'll be a bit more smoother and faster overall, but the biggest win for me is no HDD read/write noise but pure silence. The original 80GB HDD in my PS3 was very loud.
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