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Music... Yea, on the console is where I store my music. Save games transportation huh? Um... Ok dude, you're not even sort of trying to look at this logically.

.... Are you for real... ???

I'm a jackass?

Lol, what do you expect? The Sony Defense Force to have any idea what they are talking about, please!

Yea, hotchips conference slides show it. Connected directly to system flash memory. That's what allows instant switching and resuming games on the fly.

Um... PS4 does not have external drive access, Ms does but not day one when no one could possibly use it anyhow. How is this an issue?

Agreed. This is liking because of the 180 on drm. But I was thinking about just how many external drive options there are, you would want to support each chipset of possible, that's a lot of testing and validation!

That's full size USB3. You know.... for hard drives.

Wow, with level headed reasoned discourse like that, you're sure to succeed in life!

Delusional at best buddy. Seek help.

Hmmm... Apparently so effing hard that Sony bricked all PS3's with drives larger than 500GB in June.... No one remembers that.... How odd.

MS will patch in external drives after launch.... APPARENTLY NOT OK.

Pfft, that's asking a lot of them. Kotaku and Joystiq are so "in the tank" for Sony it isn't even remotely funny.

As opposed to allowing any hard drive you can find.... Then having updates brick the consoles for a month....

You understand the difference between "Just don't use it" and "here the company is pushing it so hard there is a dedicated button on the controller for it".... right?

I think they are betting way too big on "social"... When I turn on a console, I might want to play with console friends and I might not, but no effing way I want another version of Facebook!

Are you dense? Hardware they have in place, but have not disclosed.

No.

You fucking idiots. This has nothing to do with the "quality" of the sound. Rather where it is is processed. Sony for whatever reason did NOT go with off-CPU processing for audio, MS did. The reasons Sony did not are most likely cost. Having an MP3 and VARIOUS FORMATS encoder/decoder is nothing. An ASIC/FPGA/32bit…