The PlayStation 5‘s boot procedure has also allegedly leaked, plus the game pre-installed on it might not take a lot of space either.

An image popped up on the ResetEra forums from a Russian source (we’ll get back here later), and it shows that the PlayStation 5 will provide 664 GB of usable storage space. Until now, the SSD was advertised to have 825 GB of space, but 1 GB does not equal 1 billion bytes (it equals 1 billion, 73 million, 841 thousand, and 824 bytes – the ratio is 1:1024, not 1:1000), meaning 825 is more like 768 GB, and 104 GB of that would be taken by the PlayStation 5’s system files and operation system, meaning we’d have 664 to use. (As a comparison, an Xbox Series X has a 930 GB SSD, 128 GB is for the system’s files, meaning that console would have 802 GB of space for us, which is 138 GB more. About two bigger games can fit into that extra space.)

Microsoft will have a slower NVMe SSD for us (2.4 GB/s raw I/O throughput of uncompressed data), but in return, they will have more space for us. The Xbox Series S is advertised to have a 512 GB SSD, which isn’t much! (For instance, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare with everything, including the free-to-play Warzone installed, no longer fits on a 250 GB SSD…) Perhaps this is why both Sony and Microsoft say that some parts of the game don’t have to be installed, and this is also why both consoles’ storage space can be expanded. (Microsoft’s proprietary 1 TB SSD solution will cost 220 dollars, and the PlayStation 5 can use any regular NVMe M.2 SSD, but only if its speed is up to spec with the PS5, so the speed could be a limiting factor.)

This image also shows that 2.38 GB is already used. As each PlayStation 5 will come with Astro’s Playroom pre-installed, it might be a quite small game. There’s also a Russian video that is allegedly showing the boot sequence of a PlayStation 5 with… a DualSense controller? „At first I thought it might be genuine, but there are weird artefacts on the video around where the blue lights are. It’s as if someone has layered the lights on a 3D printed controller,” The Verge’s Tom Warren wrote on the ResetEra forums.

Sure, nothing is official yet, but the first official previews of the PlayStation 5 will come, and it’s about time, as the PlayStation 5 Standard Edition (500 USD/EUR) and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition (400 USD/EUR) will launch on November 12 in America and on November 19 in Europe, respectively.

Source: WCCFTech, PSU, PSL

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