A while back I had a series of threads called tech talk. In line with that series but this one hopefully more open, i wanna start another series that lets us discuss and share what we think will be in the next generation of console hardware.
The discuss part simple means you should make a vote in this thread and talk about whatever you think or know pertaining to the topic. The sahre part means you could make a thread and mark it out as NGT: (insert whatever you wanna cover here) in there. This way we could hopefully have the all you may need to know threads of different compononets of console gaming hardware presently and as they develop.
Now that thats out of the way. On with this thread.
STORAGE
This is important not just to store game data, but it plays a big role on how quickly your games load or even how th e games are designed. Basically, we have three interfaces (yes two interfaces but multiple possible drives).
- SATA (up to 500MB/s)
this is what everyone is using right now. Its what is in the PS4/XB1. If the next gen consoles come with this interface as its default interface, then the best we will have are SSDs that allows us have transfer speeds of a maximum of 500MB/s (and in truth that is just theoretically) - M.2 (up to 3GB/s)
This new tech has been gaining a lot of traction right now, but is still firmly rooted in what may be considered as enthusiast tech. Its possible to have a universal M.2 interface that supports the cheaper SATA level speeds 500MB/s SSDs and also support the faster (but more expensive) NvME 3GB/s SSDs. - Embedded Storage
This will be akin to going with the Nintendo Switch route. And with this all bets are pretty much off. But Ideally it entails having ssome for of nand flash storage built right onto the MB of the systems. It could also offer support for eithe SATA or M.2 NvME speeds depending on how they go about implementing it.
