[tw04]

The PS3 was well after the ship had sailed. That’s the whole point, it took them 3 generations to stop. The PS1 and 2 both required custom memory cards as well when the original Xbox was using a standard SATA drive.

Oh how the turntables.

[gambiting]

You might be misremembering reality - yes, the original xbox shipped with a normal drive, but the X360 had a proprietary drive in a custom enclosure, but actually the most popular model didn't come with any drive at all - just a proprietary memory card. Then the Xbox One has a regular sata drive, but I wouldn't call it "user replaceable" - it's very hard to access and requires a complete disassembly of the console, while on PS3 and PS4 all you needed to do was remove one screw and the drive would come out. The same seems to be true on PS5 again.

[tw04]

What are you talking about? The xbox360 was an off the shelf 2.5” drive with custom firmware in an enclosure that took 30 seconds to open.

https://youtu.be/XIrW4pzVNmk

Ignoring the fact that the 360 isn’t the original Xbox... which is what I literally said.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)

[gambiting]

I did address the original Xbox though, did you miss my first two sentences?

[tw04]

I clearly read your first two sentences. You told me I misremembered reality, claimed the 360 was a proprietary drive, and were wrong.