What do yo think will be the hardware specifications of PS5 if it arrives arround 2019-2020?

[KBG29]

Intrinsic said:

KBG29 said:

I can get on board with on board storage =). I have no problem grabbing USB3.1 Gen 2 extrenal SSD to expand the storage. If they left an open M.2 NVMe slot inside similar to the PS2's HDD bay, that would be the ultimate to me. 

Having some form of Soild State Storage in PS5 is IMO the most important next gen feature. HDD's have been to slow for 2 generations now, it is time we get rid of that bottleneck.

Its just that m.2 ssds will not be beneficial to consoles. So it makes no sense that they add it in.

Games aren't being bottle necked by the speeds of SATA 3 SSDs. Say a HDD takes 20 secs to load al the assets of a level in a game. Switching rom that (~150MB/s) to an SSD (~500MB/s) could drop that to around 10 secs. If we put in an M.2 nvme SSD (~2000MB/s) we only see those speeds improve by about 1/2 secs.... why?

Thats because the SATA SSD was not limited by its speed to begin with. Its limited by its seek times which is basically identical to that of an m.2 drive.

I would like the M.2 format just for the massive size reduction, and the cleanliness it would have over needing an external drive. You can use both NVMe and SATA in the M.2 formfactor, and one port is compatable with both formats.

Also, yes seek times are a big reason when we are only loading 5 - 8 GB. With 32 or 64GB of RAM that extra speed and larger files will make a much bigger difference. I still think their is a lot of understimating going on here with RAM on PS5. Their is this strange idea that we don't need much more RAM, that is far, far from the truth. Cost is the biggest factor as to how much they can add, but their will never not need more and faster memory. Whether PS5 has 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB of RAM, you can be damn sure devs will use every bit of it.