What does the ps5's SSD tech mean for Series X and pc?

[vivster]

goopy20 said:

vivster said:

High end PCs should be just fine, they will have ample supply of RAM and VRAM to store things that would normally be stored on the SSD. But in the end it's gonna be the same as usual. Low end PCs will just be fine with a low fidelity experience, as it has always been.

I would bet that people on PC will be absolutely fine next gen even without any SSD at all.

I'm not so sure. The whole point of Sony's SSD tech is to completely change how levels/ worlds can be designed and take away the traditional barriers. Obviously, we need to see what that mean in practice but I have my doubts that ports will will run on a low end pc. I mean there's a reason why you can't just stick any SSD in the ps5 if you want to upgrade the storage, in fact compatible off-the-shelf SSD's don't even exist at this time.  

It's just an SSD that is directly coupled with the system memory, which is in the case of PS5 both RAM and VRAM together. You can't have exactly that in a PC, but that's fine. PC as a platform is very versatile and people who develop or port for PC know that. Low end PC gamers have to deal with issues anyway since they have less than 10Gigs of VRAM in the first place.