Observations of a Switch Supporter - Misunderstanding of Product and Services

[Conina]

dongo8 said:

Conina said:

So, do you have benchmarks for that claim? Boot time from a cold start? Loading times of Switch games? Transfer speeds of sequential and random reads and writes?

Not every flash memory is fast. How do we know if the internal memory of the Switch is faster than the HDDs in the PS4 and Xbox One? How do we know if the reading from the Switch game carts is faster than reading data from the HDDs in the PS4 and Xbox One? Many MicroSD cards are also slower than the HDDs in the PS4 and Xbox One, especially if you want to save some bucks.

A couple of things, the read speed of the PS4 and Xbox One hard drives is max 6gb/s at stock levels. SSDs as well as SD cards are much faster than this. The cartridges that the Switch will be using are also flash memory and will most definitely outperform 5400 RPM or even 7200 RPM hard drives. It's not a question of if, to me. Of course we do not have official benchmarks yet for the Switch cartridges, but you know as soon as the thing releases there will be side by sides of loading times and consistency and such. Flash memory has come a long way and definitely has surpassed stock hard drives in many ways. Only time will tell though, so we will know in probably a couple of months when the Switch is in everybody's hands.

The cartridges that the Vita uses are also flash memory. Nevertheless some games take up to 2 minutes to load.