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On Monday, Sony posted a bulletin to PlayStation 5 fans letting them know about a sweeping new system update, meant largely to touch up the game console's menu interface. The blog post includes a long-winded notice about one update that, for some players, won't seem like much of an update at all: "cold storage." As a result, PlayStation 5 is now five months out from its launch while continuing to lack something kind of important in a game console: a way to add functional storage space, which is required to play any PS5 game you own. Call of Duty, call of download Further Reading Xbox Series X/S vs. PlayStation 5: Our launch-month verdict Last year's new consoles, the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 , have a ton in common as far as hardware is concerned. As just one example, they lean on a new generation of internal storage—rated PCIe 4.0 and connected via the NVMe protocol . With this jump, read and write speeds increase dramatically, and that has been … [Read more...] about PlayStation 5 game storage will apparently continue to be a nightmare
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