 Welcome to next gen platform week everybody. We have launches up to well three if you want to count the series s Maybe a side platform Different systems launching this week in the video game spear with the Xbox series s and x arriving tomorrow And then on Thursday we have the playstation 5 obviously We know which one of these devices is the most anticipated of course would be the series s Literally content of the straight face this playstation 5 of course it has the best launch lineup It has the most impressive UI changes I know some people aren't really into those UI changes You know there's personal preferences and all that but it is definitely a very feature-rich UI the hint system All that jazz kind of taken a cue from what Nintendo did back on the Wii U But just doing it better in my opinion And yeah, the dual-sense controller everything about the PlayStation 5 kind of feels new including the really bold Look of a PlayStation 5 however Despite this there are some concerns at buying a PlayStation 5 at launch No, there's always concerns about buying any platform at launch And I always tell people that even though I'm a tech enthusiast and I try to get my hands on this tech as soon as possible I will be getting an Xbox series X tomorrow as soon as I have the funds available Which I know I'm trying to raise a little bit through live streams, but we'll see what happens I plan to get a PlayStation 5 ASAP Hopefully I don't have to pay a scalper for it, but we'll see I don't believe in supporting the scalping market that being said I Want to talk about a key part of the PlayStation 5 that is actually a problem And I'm not talking about the fact that it advertises 8k on the box yet doesn't actually support 8k at launch So that's kind of weird. So if you went on bought one of those new LG OLED 8k sets, which are quite expensive You're not going to see any benefits from it I'm not even here to talk about how it doesn't support an auto variable refresh rate mode, which is basically Where you could take your your gaming experience and lower the latency Without having to manually go into your TV and turn on game mode most TVs do have a game mode But the Xbox series X supports just automatically putting your TV on that game mode When you're using the series X playing games So again, these are just a little minor gripes You know the 8k thing is probably extremely minor for some people because most of us won't own 8k sets Maybe within even the lifetime of these platforms or maybe ever for some of us So I honestly don't know that that's as big of a mission It kind of sucks about the VRR user experience, but the main issue I Have with the PlayStation 5 is The storage now we know it's got like what 664 667 gigs of available storage at launch Because the rest of it that 850 whatever gigs is taken up by the OS. That's okay. It sucks You know, we it's not good. It doesn't sound as bad as the series s of course, but it's not good You know, there's like an extra 200 gigs on an Xbox series X So again, it doesn't sound good But there was a lot of praise given to Sony because they offered the ability to use any PCIe Gen 4 SSD In their system, it's it's a standard MVME and that to drive that you could that you could just throw in there now It has to be PCIe 4.0 and some people were praising this because of pricing reasons There's no reason to praise it because the pricing reasons it's PCIe gen 4 which is exactly what Xbox uses and Guess what the pricing of those are right around the same price as the expandable storage for Xbox So they're not gaining a pricing advantage But you do gain a user friendliness advantage where you can choose Whatever brand you trust because a lot of people aren't fans of Seagate their Seagate has been known to have issues with their SSDs over the years Now I doubt there's gonna be an issue specifically with the one terabyte one That Xbox is using because they won't partner with them if they were not confident that it would be a part that's going to last but It is what it is Xbox said there's going to be more partners later. So there'll be other options later And Sony supposedly has those options out the gate or so we thought So two big things are working against the PlayStation 5 at launch It doesn't support the internal SSD expansion slots at launch So even though the slot is there and you can go ahead and plug an SSD and an MVID and MVME M not to PCIE 4.0. What a mouthful Drive into it. The system will not recognize it and you cannot use it So you cannot expand the storage internally on PlayStation 5 at launch. It is coming in an update later They just said later not even later this year later So I'm guessing that it won't be available till sometime in 2021 This to me Obviously is a sign that the platform is rushed and not ready because this is something you included But you're not supporting and having expansions of storage at launch is a pretty big deal on a platform They could get filled up with three games. Yes, three games can fill up the PlayStation 5 internal storage If you get Miles Morales, you get Demon's Souls and then you happen to buy Call of Duty You're done. Your storage is gone. You have no room for any more games And that's assuming you can even get all three of those games installed with the updates. So yeah That's a problem and you can't Expand the storage at launch or probably the rest of 2020. You're gonna find a lot of people Running in the storage issues Literally this week That is going to be That's not good now You could say well at least they announced that they will be that they support expandable storage on the outside So this is where you can plug in through one of their USB ports a External hard drive and you can at least store the games on there just like you can with the Xbox Series X Because for those who don't know Microsoft how did that? Hey, look, we understand this this external Memory card is expensive, but you can plug in any, you know any whatever you want USB capable Expansion drive on the outside whether it's SSD or not SSD and you could store all your next-gen games on there And there's just a simple transfer feature where you transfer games back and forth from the heart from the external hard drive to the internal hard drive It's really quick. It's nothing like having to re-download games and obviously eating up your bandwidth It's it's a very simple process Microsoft has set up for it to allow you to cheaply expand your storage And you know, you just kind of live with the fact you have to do a little transferring in between With games, you know that I don't know you're basically gonna keep whatever you're currently playing on the internal storage And then swap it out for games that you have on the external storage not that big a deal plus you could play all Xbox one games Directly off of that drive as well You don't have to transfer them to the internal storage although you get an advantage of doing so with the SSD So it's kind of a give or take but there's options Microsoft gives you options PlayStation 5 at launch does not support external hard drives Now they said that they're going to support external hard drives They're gonna support you storing games on external hard drives But it's not there at launch so you can't use external hard drives to store PlayStation 5 games Basically that's six hundred sixty four sixty seven, you know gigs you get at launch. That's it You cannot install PlayStation 5 games beyond that storage You have to delete games to install new ones which means having to re-download game and remember I said as many as three Games could fill up that internal storage raise your hand Right now in person. I'm out there raise your hand right now If you play more than three games in a given month and I'm you can be anything you can hop around in fortnight You know, maybe you know, maybe on a switch You know my my hop between fortnight or Mario Kart may pop in some Zelda quick play a little Luigi's mansion You know heck maybe you're you're getting ready for Age of Calamity playing that demo like I know personally I hop around games all the time and any given month There's probably a half dozen to a dozen games that I hop between some for quick multiplayer actions Some are longer sessions and I'm working on like a fire I'm on three houses, but in general I'm not just playing one game per month. I know for some of you That's it you only play a single game per month or for many months You know, you just play fortnight. You just play Call of Duty. You just play Madden. That's fine But for a lot of people we like to play a wide variety of games to kind of suit whatever mood we're in or the time available Like when I say play Assassin's Creed Valhalla this year, it's gonna be for longer play sessions I'm not just gonna sit down and play it for you know a quick 10 minutes. It's not that kind of game That's something where you can hop into a multiplayer match in something for 10 minutes That's all the time I have plus I might not always be in the mood to play a single player experience like that So there's a lot of factors that come into play that make it so this is pretty much Unacceptable at launch but again something that we already know heading in the launch is a problem In fact, we already had one person on Twitter when I brought this up mentioned man I should have kept my my series X pre-order because I could have played next-gen earlier and I Won't have had to worry about storage as much and they switched because you know of the seagate 1 terabyte expensive drive Not realizing that all MVME drives on the PlayStation 5 are going to be expensive, too And you can't even use them at launch. We didn't even know that until the console reviews came out and said hey If you're hoping to expand your storage for PlayStation 5 games your shit out of luck. So Sorry Yeah, this is not Okay, and I do think both platforms. I want to be fair my criticism both platforms I don't think are ready to go Now I will note that I think the Xbox series X slash S is ready from a hardware perspective It is completely feature rich. It has 8k support. It supports the the variable refresh rate In turning your TV in the game mode. It supports the external hard drives and has expandable storage at launch There are zero missing touted features of the series S and series X at launch the console You get the UI you get the software you get everything is feature complete However without Halo Infinite. There is zero Big deal exclusive games at launch. There is one timed exclusive Sakura is there which is a timed Exclusive this is a curl. I don't know that's a cure. I forget what there's one Japanese game I can't remember its name of it that actually is Exclusive maybe Yakuza. I don't know that I get confused sometimes But yeah, there's one Japanese exclusive game that doesn't really look next-gen, but it is exclusive for you know Like six months or something, but yeah, I I honestly think that That without some better software at least something, you know at least at lunchtime when we have like, you know Rise son of Rome and a couple others It there was at least something to showcase the platform this time around It's yeah, they're pushing assassin's creed Valhalla hard because you can play it first next-gen tomorrow Where is it? You have to wait till Thursday for for PlayStation 5, but PlayStation 5 is missing key features has games Doesn't have all the features in place and the primary one being the storage issue because storage issue will be an issue day one I guarantee you there's gonna be someone who picks up a PlayStation 5 day one and has storage issues Literally within hours because they're gonna transfer some of their PlayStation 4 games to the internal SSD now Why are they doing that because they want that 60 FPS? They want those faster load times They want those next-gen upgrades because a lot of a lot of the games are getting these next-gen patches They want to play them and you're gonna have to do that on the internal SSD You won't be able to play those next-gen stuff on the external the external hard drive Assuming you can even plug it in and play the old library off of it day one Will not be able to have these upgrades. You'll just be playing stock standard PlayStation 4 It won't feel any different on the series or on the series X on the PlayStation 5 So this is a problem. It's a problem that needs to be addressed It's a problem that will be addressed someday in the future If you ever wonder why Sony's been very coy about their platform not giving reviewers as much time with it Not really deep diving as much into it as as people wish they would this is part of the reason why the system is not Technically ready to go. It will be feature complete eventually. It will allow you to have all the storage you want Eventually, but at launch Mmm. Mmm. It's it's not looking good now. Yes Xbox needs to catch up with games But at least the platform is feature complete now if you ask me What what do I care about most so I care about the games or care about a feature complete platform? The obvious choice is the games and that's why PlayStation 5 still looks like a great buy if you really Really have to have that remake of Demon's Souls like if you must have that remake now PlayStation 5 is gonna feel like a must buy But for a platform that's offering an all-digital version that you can't even put discs and not that just give a Matter anymore since you have to install the game In terms of the storage capacity it matters in terms of physical collecting and resale value I get that but in terms of actual storage it doesn't matter you install the game anyways I I'm just I don't think this is okay I think this is a big oof and I have to call it out. I hate it like I don't want to talk positively and once I have the PlayStation 5 in my hands I'm sure I'll have a lot of positive things to say and maybe by then they even support the more storage options But for right now I'm almost kind of glad that there was a big snafu with PlayStation 5 pre-orders hitting in that early making me unable to get one because That because that happened. I no longer have to concern myself With some of these issues right away I could just focus on the X and the switch this holiday and hopefully get a PlayStation 5 soon after and then I can You know, hopefully have some of those issues patched up by then We'll see so I think if you buy a PlayStation 5 you will be satisfied with the performance. You'll be satisfied with the games But you will be quickly dissatisfied with the fact you can only have a three on your system at once All right, folks, I'm Nathaniel Robert Jantz from Nintendo Prime Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video