The point of being non proprietary (or rather one of the points) is the ability to utilise outside of its initial purchase either for yourself or selling on.Again, no heatsink. Cerny bought the heatsink version.
If you change to the heatsink version it's $230 for the 1TB on NewEgg, but it's out of stock. The 500gb & 2TB are in stock & costs $140 & $550 respectively.
Agree with Jay here. If you're not a PC gamer none of those pros matter. The only thing that matters is that you got an easy-to-use option that has guaranteed 1:1 performance. Microsoft has shown they don't have a problem having sales on theirs. The 360 hard drives came down & they also later released larger versions at the same price. I'll grant you that you have more options with the PS5 design, but it's not for everyone. The great thing is there are options. Just got to decide which one you like better.
Tommy McClain
It’s not just PC gamers, it could be used in another PS5, as an external drive or even in a laptop or something else…also and then when selling on you have more people who might be after the drive vs being limited to one market.
There will also be ‘easy plug and play’ options- really don’t dress this up as more complicated that it is.
There’s far more pros and these will become more apparent the longer the gen goes on.