PS5 Early Announcements - Most Anticipated New Feature

[Pemalite]

DonFerrari said:

Pemalite said:

Cerny was definitely pushing the "advertisement" claim with that statement though. The PC has SSD implementations which will obliterate the Playstation 5... Today.

Every generation consoles push claims of something "revolutionary" in their hardware... And really, it doesn't amount to much.

At the moment, Sony won’t cop to exact details about the SSD—who makes it, whether it utilizes the new PCIe 4.0 standard—but Cerny claims that it has a raw bandwidth higher than any SSD available for PCs. That’s not all. “The raw read speed is important,“ Cerny says, “but so are the details of the I/O [input-output] mechanisms and the software stack that we put on top of them. I got a PlayStation 4 Pro and then I put in a SSD that cost as much as the PlayStation 4 Pro—it might be one-third faster." As opposed to 19 times faster for the next-gen console, judging from the fast-travel demo.

Then that would be the lie he would be telling.

Yep. That is the claim he made.
The Raw bandwidth of a PC SSD setup can absolutely dominate the Playstation 5, even if the PC was theoretically using PCI-E 2.0 and the Playstation 5 was using PCI-E 6.0.

I get it, the console manufacturers need to promote their hardware as much as possible to attract consumers, but every generation we get inaccurate "power" claims like this.