How do you play games? Most likely it’s on a PC or on a console; and for most players, they will eventually need an additional way to save the gaming library they are amassing. Whether going all digital or all physical–or any combination in between–solutions to the saving dilemma will continue to grow in price. Amidst the pandemic, chip shortages, and rising prices in the past year, do you feel that there are viable storage options available to consumers?
I remember getting my PlayStation 3 with 80 gigabytes on board and thinking to myself that’s a lot! I loved playing Call of Duty games, but they kept growing in storage size and annually rolling out DLC, so that excitement over the 80 gigabytes was short lived–eventually forcing me to put a 500 gigabyte drive in, which filled up quickly, and I was right back with the same problem. Moving to my PlayStation 4 (which started with 500 gigabytes), I upped its max storage to 2 terabytes within the first year, which again was not nearly enough. But both hard drives were HDD, (Hard Disk Drive) which are fairly cheap when compared to the SSD, (Solid State Drive) that are required for a PlayStation 5.
Sony has partnered with Seagate to release a set of expansion storage drives to be implemented into the PlayStation 5 hardware. As of Thursday August 12th, Sony rolled out the ability for beta users only to expand the PlayStation 5’s storage with off-the-shelf M.2 SSD’s. The prices ranging from $169.99 (USD) up to $1049.99 (USD). Do you think this partnership will work in both companies favor, and do you think they will sell a lot of the hard drives with higher price points?
The Seagate FireCuda 530 with heatsink attached:
- $169.99 for 500 GB
- $274.99 for 1 TB
- $569.99 for 2 TB
- $1,049.99 for 4 TB
The first thing that I can see is that the lower capacity tiers look more attractive due to the high price points of the 2 and 4 TB options. As a consumer, I would want to put more space in my console, so the 1 TB option looks a bit more satisfying compared to the other set prices. This I believe will drive the sales of the lower tier hard drives. When higher price points are presented, the lower number becomes the minimum base point in which most consumers will say, “Oh well, this is the cheapest option I have to solve my low storage capacity problem.”
Do you think that by having these price points that the sales for the lower storage will do extremely well? Would you dish out that kind of cash for a 4 TB? Will the partnership between Sony and Seagate have challenges similar to the complaints regarding the Sony Pro Duo memory cards?
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Source: Seagate.com
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