If true we come full circle, from ps1 memory cartridges to ps5 memory cartridges.

If games do ship on SSD cartridges, I can see the prices of games going up by about £20...

So 1tb at launch inside the console to keep the price affordable and if you want to expand you get one of these?
OK I'm cool with that but I can already see the haters.

Imagine if each cartridge had the main processors for each previous Playstations, giving 100% backwards compatiblity. You would be able to choose what one you wanted, keeping the costs down.

Maybe upgrade carts in the future instead of Mid cycle updates.

I’m not really a fan of proprietary accessories, but if this is what they’re doing I just hope they’re more readily available and cheap unlike the vita memory cards.

It's a probably SSD caddy, that connects a SSD to the system in order to take full advantage of those mentioned speeds. In a way thats not currently possible with the standard sata ports.

The system having both a disc and cartrigde port seems a bit unnecessary, unless the disk port is of a modular design and can be detached from the system like a laptop disc port, and these cartrigdes fit in that same port.

Gray color is interesting.

Are we seriously trying to get excited about SSD cartridges

We do not need overpriced storage options. This doomed the vita. I appreciate the SSD and the additional functionality it gives but my worry number 1 about having an internal SSD storage has always been capacity. Given I had to add an 8GB HDD to my PS4 towards the end of its shelf life I am concerned that, if Sony was to offer an internal SSD with the option to increase storage with proprietary cartridges this would increase storage cost. However, if they offer an internal SSD with the ability to connect an external HDD this would be better for consumers, when it comes to costs, but detrimental for those games installed on the external HDD which won’t benefit from the features the SSD would offer unless there was a way to reserve a buffer of space on the SSD to be filled, on the fly, for any games run from an external HDD so textures, etc can be loaded faster. I suspect what they may do is give the option of an external HDD and those games installed on HDD that consumers wants to play would need to transfer on the internal SSD via the OS in order to benefit from the additional features. In other words games will be optimised for SSD therefore can only run from SSD and, in those situations where consumers add additional HDD storage, the games would need to be transferred on SSD. Not an issue that we would face during the first years of the console life but something that would require a solutions as games get bigger in size, last longer due to service subscriptions and consumers like me buy lots of games and would need additional storage.
Ideally if Sony could use some form of cloud to retain the majority of the data and only on the SSD what is required to get the game running would be even better. Look what Microsoft has been able to do with the new flight sim using the cloud.

Doesn't seem right. What I've seen is that the SSD used will be integrated onto the board with the GPU and CPU

ssd cartridge...prepare for 300% price. Just like Vita

*Raises hand to ask a question
Is that the design of the PS5 console, if so, where do you insert these expandable cartridges? From the design, it doesnt look like there's room to plug these cartridges into (internally and externally).
another question, how much would these cost consumers?. Historically, Sony propriety memory are pretty expensive (PS Vita).

Didn't Nintendo Nes and Snes use Cartridges?? now Sony revitalising cartridges with ps5
this goes to show everything repeat itself under the sun.

Hmmm if these are proprietary ssds then you all know theyll be overpriced af, 2-3x the price of 3rd party. Hope theyll give us the option to use 3rd party external hdds/ssds. Sony would be idiots to repeat the same mistakes as the vita....

Calm down everyone. I suggested games would ship on SSD months ago. And u guys can look up my comments back then to confirm it. But the games will not ship on SSD because Sony has already confirmed that the PS5 will have a 4K blu ray drive. Why would Sony make SSD game cartridges when they’ve confirmed a 4K blu ray drive? Unless of course they do something similar to the Sega Saturn with their cartridge slot. That slot was for hard drive expansion but should have been for games shipped on cartridges too. That would of been so cool back then. But yea Sony confirmed 4K blu ray playback so it just wouldn’t be feasible to have a 4K blu ray player just for movies and also an SSD slot just for games shipped on cartridges. That combo would def be super dope though.

So a render of a memory card? Cool...

It seems it's not related to the SSD of the PS5, it's something else according to the document of the patent.