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SvennoJ on 23 March 2020
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Intrinsic said:
SvennoJ said:

Makes sense, and makes me less excited for the 'feature' as the OS will likely reserve space on the SSD for suspend/resume for multiple games. I guess it will be configurable and booting up a game and pressing continue won't last much longer anyway from SSD.

I do wonder if we can have a browser on PS5 that doesn't run out of memory all the time :)

Yup... but the good news is that the OS would be serving far less space in the SSD than they currently do in current-gen consoles. The reason being that current-gen consoles have to have a certain amount of space to "copy" a game to during an install. Next gen console wouldn't need to do that anymore. So of say te 825GBn the PS5, 6-8GB would be reserved per game for instant resume, lets just call it 8GB and let's say sony supports the feature or 3 games. That's 24GB gone. Then OS catch would probably take up another 10GB depending on how snappy they want things to be.

So what would be left for us is around 780-790GB of usable space.

As for the browser...what sony's approach tells me is that they probably have a hard limit of less than 500MB for apps,that's the only reason I can see as to why even the PS4 runs into RAM issues when using the browser. Hopefully, that number goes up this time around cause now they could technically have an OS that is 1GB when in the background and is 8GB when upfront.

Current gen you have to free up space yourself for patches. Luckily the OS doesn't reserve 105 GB in case GT Sport needs an update (but it's a pain when there is one). Smarter patching would be greatly appreciated. It's weird, Sony has got the start playing while installing from disc thing down, but patching is an archaic mess.

Another thing that baffles me is that sometimes games won't start anymore when I have too many video clips saved. I usually save all my race footage to disk in case something happened during one of them and at some point GT Sport won't start anymore (free up memory message) even though I still have 100GB available. Maybe some file system limit for the gallery.

The OS does reserve space for instant recording for up to an hour, that's going to be a chunk in 4K60! Yet trimming videos and putting clips together will be so much faster :)

Anyway, faster booting, faster loading, faster saving, that's all the quality of life improvements I want. Both should provide that in spades. Please keep the non skipable splash and startup screens to minimum next gen!