It really depends on how you define timed exclusive, if you define it as a game that over time moves from single to multi platform status , then you have a definition that's so broad that you could state a case for ports and multiplats who's only crime was their release dates simply differed across the various platforms they appeared, another definition for timed exclusive would be, any game that is under an arrangement/contract that gives exclusive access to that game for a set time period, this  I would argue is what most people envisage when they talk about timed exclusives.

Early indirect subliminal next gen marketing? Get it in gamers heads that if you want to be considered hardcore, the PS5 is the console to choose?

That is because Sony is taking advantage of PCI-E 4.0. Otherwise it would be no faster than the fastest current SSD... It is essentially a baked in feature with Ryzen 3000 and Sony is taking full advantage of that... And good on them. - I am interested to know if the SSD will be the primary storage or if it will act like a cache drive.
In saying that.... You can get SSD setups faster than what the Playstation 5 will have on PC even 5 years ago, so it's not the "fastest SSD" setup possible even before the consoles release.

And once PCI-E 4.0 is out in the wild, PC will have m.2 slots that are just as fast... Which should happen this year actually.

From what I saw of Scarlett, it seems Microsoft will be using a mix of 2GB and 1GB chips, so we can assume 24GB is in for Scarlett... However, 8GB of that will only operate at half the bandwidth, so if Scarlett employs 14Gbps GDDR6 on a 256bit bus, then that last 8GB will be 224GB/s of bandwidth whilst the rest of the 16GB is 448GB/s.
It does mean we are probably looking at 8GB for the OS/Background duties.

Sony could be taking a similar approach. Or they may opt for only 16GB of GDDR6... Or 16GB GDDR6+8GB DDR4.

The memory front is probably the most interesting thing that can happen with the next gen hardware.... Heck. All the above may also be wrong, I am just going by the imagery I saw from E3 with the Scarlett reveal and building my hypothesis from that.

Meaningless marketing fluff. NEXT!

You are not making sense on the memory. Clamshell or not, memory bus speed is memory bus speed.

I highly doubt anyone is going for mixed memory. You are just asking for engineering trouble doing that.

Sounds like timed/exclusive content to me. No big deal. SIE is already vastly superior to MS first party and may surpass Nintendo's first party next generation.

Making perfect sense. It is Gigabits per second.
And no. memory bus speed is not memory bus speed. Each chip has it's own bus... So think along those lines.
Memory transactions are a parallel task.

It is okay it can get confusing quickly.

Basically 16x memory chips.

But I'll try and dumb it down for you.

Each blue line is a 16-bit data path to the GPU... And 16x chips is an aggregate 256-bit bus.


Once you hit 1GB of used capacity on each chip, then you can only start filling up the 2GB chips... Which is when bandwidth is cut in half as memory transactions can only occur in half the chips. (The 2GB ones.)

We actually have had similar cases where this has happened on GPU's before... A few of nVidia GPU's infact... For example the Geforce 970 where the 3.5GB of Ram ran at full speed and the last 512MB ran at a reduced bandwidth.

So no... Memory bus isn't just memory bus.

As for mixed memory... There have been tons of systems with mixed memory setups. - Playstation 3 (XDR and GDDR3), Playstation 4 (GDDR5 and DDR3) for example, so to assume it's unheard of is a bit of a fallacy.

Either way, I am not asserting anything as factual at this stage anyway.

You guys are simply wrong, hardcore means PS5 will be catter for elites like PC master race or PS fans loyalis , the console will be premium like Xbox One X or slightly even more expensives. Also hardcore means, there will have less garbage shovelware games on the library (more quality control) . Also will focus on triple A and more exclusives . The article doesn't said there will be no more indies or double AA. I believes 1000% it will be there but it will be have more quality control (like Nintendo did with ( Snes ). . And focus on traditional offline platform (PS Now library will have just old games like PS4 and PS3 games) .

Well it's true that great minds think alike :P

IMO it's already surpassed Nintendo first party. I like Nintendo's exclusives but they don't deliver rich story telling the way Sony does and that's what I prefer.