Sony is currently looking into ways to let PlayStation 5 users move their next-gen games from the consoles SSD to a USB drive. Concerns were raised earlier this week when a number of press who had reviewed the upcoming console pointed out that there's currently no way to move PS5 games from the SSD to an external hard drive.
At present, you can move your PS4 games between the SSD and an external HDD, but PS5 games will have to remain where they are. Given that the previously confirmed storage expansion options won't be available for the console until some time after launch, the only way to make more space on your PS5 for the time being is to delete titles and redownload them at a later date. Far from ideal.
The good news is that Sony has now responded to these concerns. In a PS5 FAQ, it's confirmed that the company is "exploring" a future update that will allow PS5 games to be stored on a USB drive. However, it also notes that you wouldn't be able to boot games directly from this external drive, and would need to transfer any games you planned on playing back over to the SSD before you could load them up.
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"No, players cannot transfer PS5 games to a USB drive," the post read. "PS5 games must be stored on the console's internal ultra-high speed SSD for gameplay. Explorations for allowing players to store (but not play) PS5 games on a USB drive in a future update are underway."
Sony added that it encourages PS5 users to store any PS4 games on the console via a USB drive to save space.
"We recommend doing this to save space on the internal console storage for PS5 games, which can't be played off an extended storage drive," the company wrote.
Given that the PS5 features just 667.2GB of usable storage, we're definitely hoping this SSD issue is something Sony is able to sort out ahead of launch, or at least a little bit after. Copying games between a USB drive and an SSD still isn't exactly ideal, but it'd be better than downloading and deleting games constantly just to make room... even if the PS5 download speeds are substantially quicker than those we're used to on PS4.
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