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The story
A post claiming “you can buy a PS5 with 1TB of storage for ¥55,000” went viral on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board. While some praised the price as a steal compared to buying PC parts separately, others pointed out that against the advertised 825GB, the actual usable capacity is only around 667GB — sparking a heated argument over how to interpret the storage figures.
Claims that the PS5 has reached RTX 3060-class performance, plus price comparisons noting a standalone GPU alone costs over ¥60,000, only fueled the cost-performance debate, which never reached a consensus.
What people said
Yeah, it's basically catching up to SanDisk Extreme-tier pricing now (a premium SSD line — "SDex").
No question, it's a sickness.
GPU: ¥80,000
SSD: ¥30,000
Motherboard: ¥20,000
Controller: ¥10,000
That's how much value you're getting.
So the gap between that estimated value and the actual price is Sony eating the loss (selling at a deficit).
At this rate it'll be beating the 3070 by next year 😌
Even in benchmarks it beats the 3060.
What benchmark?
I don't want to become the kind of person who lies without batting an eye.
The ¥55,000 model has 825GB, but the system reserves about 160GB, so what you can actually use is around 660GB.
Isn't that the same 825GB as the original model?
The original model was 1TB, and 825GB was what was left after the system took its cut.
Was it? Mine's the original disc-drive model and I'm pretty sure it's 825GB — wasn't 1TB the later revision?
Nope. It's 825GB total, and after the system takes its share you're left with 670.
I own both an Xbox Ally X and a PS5, and I just use each for what it's good at.
Not really sure what "complex" you're talking about.
For reference, this is an SSD that was on sale at GEO (a Japanese used-goods/game retailer) a year ago.
Guess your brain rots once you start worshipping PlayStation.
Yeah, that genuinely is bizarre.
The NAND chip installed is 768GiB (825GB). After setting aside over-provisioning space, what's left for the user is 715GiB (768GB).
Every other manufacturer sells this exact SSD labeled as 768GB — only "Shitty Sony" (a common 5ch insult pun, "クソニー") labels it 825GB.
For the PS5, after the system takes its cut, the user is actually left with 667GiB (716GB).
If the over-provisioning matches what normal SSD makers use, that means the PS5's system is hogging 48GiB.
He's been losing his mind over the "ban physical discs" crusade lately, so I figured he'd catch heat eventually lol
I mean, he's not wrong, but a PlayStation fan probably shouldn't be calling other users "a cancer on the game industry."
I get wanting third-party games to actually release.
But I don't get getting angry just because a third-party game went multiplatform.
He's got a point, but even for the sake of an example, did he need to drag in Switch and Xbox?
Just stick to PlayStation.
The RTX 5060 is ¥63,000 though.
The 8GB version doesn't have much demand, that's why it's cheap.
https://krsw.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/ghard/1787702355/
There's a genuinely pure-bred PlayStation zealot loose in that thread
Claiming the PS6 will be backward-compatible with old discs, apparently.
That's just the usual crowd from the "Sokuho" (breaking news) board.
Scary how being quarantined in a place like that for years turns you into this.
When you see firsthand that the "Sokuho" board really is a parallel universe detached from reality, it goes past shock straight into fear.
Pretty sure it was something like 800GB.
Background and Key Points
The PS5’s storage math checks out but rarely gets explained in English-language coverage: the console ships with an 825GB (or 1TB on the newer “slim” revision) SSD, but Sony reserves a chunk for the system, firmware, and — critically — over-provisioning, the standard SSD-controller practice of setting aside raw NAND for wear-leveling and error correction. That leaves roughly 667GB actually usable for games and saves. This isn’t a Sony-specific scam; every SSD maker under-reports usable capacity relative to raw NAND for the same reason, though as posters noted, competitors typically label the drive by its post-overprovisioning figure rather than the larger raw number, which is part of why Sony’s 825GB/667GB gap feels more jarring by comparison.
The thread’s real fault line wasn’t whether the ¥55,000 price is good value — almost everyone agreed a PC build with comparable GPU, CPU, SSD, and controller costs more piecemeal — but whether advertising “825GB” is honest when only 667GB (or by one poster’s more technical breakdown, 667GiB) is usable. That escalated into a tangent about whether PS5 performance genuinely rivals an RTX 3060, a claim posters challenged for lacking any cited benchmark, which nobody in the thread actually produced.
What’s likely to confuse outside readers: this is not new information. The 825GB-vs-667GB usable-capacity gap has been public since the PS5’s 2020 launch and is documented in Sony’s own specs; it resurfaces periodically on 5ch whenever a “PS5 is a steal” post goes viral, less because anyone discovered something new than because console-vs-PC price comparisons reliably bait the board’s recurring platform-loyalty arguments, visible here in the tangents about a banned-poster’s anti-physical-media crusade and the “Sokuho” board’s reputation for detached-from-reality PlayStation zealotry.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “An expert says: “The PS5 is 1TB of storage for ¥55,000”.”
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