One of the biggest news of the upcoming PlayStation 5 is undoubtedly SSD based storage . Sony’s healthy state memory unit can guarantee significantly faster loading times than those seen on previous generation console, but, at least on day one, will also offer a limited space for internal storage of its software. The Japanese company had already talked about expandability, but returned to the subject to confirm some details.

PS5: we will be able to mount a second SSD, but not from day one

Thanks to the official teardown last October we know that PlayStation 5 will have an internal slot dedicated to a second memory module M.2 NVMe , the same type adopted by Sony for its SSD. In an interview granted to The Verge, the same manufacturer has however released an important note: the expansion of the internal memory of PS5 will be supported only with a future update of the software.

Those who have carefully followed the PS5 presentation curated by Mark Cerny will not be surprised by the latest statement from Sony . On that occasion, the visionary chief designer had talked about expandable memory, the support of which would only be added after the launch of the console: “It would be great if this was possible at launch, but is likely to happen sometime later “, Cerny said last March.

The explanation was offered to us by Cerny himself. The third-party SSDs that we will be able to mount on PlayStation 5 must be as fast as the original drive, which, we remember, has a bandwidth equal to 5.5GB / s ; in addition, M.2 SSDs will need to be compatible with Sony’s proprietary controller. To ensure customers are fully compatible with other SSDs, the company must first carry out internal tests and this will take some time.

PlayStation 5 will be available from next 19 November, the day it will land in stores in two different versions: a standard one ( 499 ?? ) and one ‘digital’, without Blu-Ray player ( 399 ?? ).