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Intrinsic on 24 March 2020
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zero129 said:

Here is another post from another dev Remedy explaining how the PS5 SSD might not be as fast at loading as some people think.
"PS5 SSD May Not Necessarily Translate into Much Quicker Loading Times, Says Remedy Technical Director"

"If games would stay the same in terms of scope and visual quality it’d make loading times be almost unnoticeable and restarting a level could be almost instant [in PS5 games].

However, since more data can be now used there can also be cases where production
might be cheaper and faster when not optimising content, which will lead into having to load much more data, leading back into a situation where you have about the same loading times as today."

"It is almost the same as with CPU and GPU enhancements. You could do things faster or you could add more content and run things the same 30fps as before; often times it is the latter."

"We game developers can make 60fps games even on PlayStation 1! It’s always about
compromise: are you focussing on visuals, physics, AI, and such things or purely framerate? The new PS5 hardware will be powerful, yes, but also expectations are that graphics will be even more detailed, more destruction, etc and it’s always a compromise as to where we focus."

In one of my posts,I literally said that if we were talking about consoles with 24GB of RAM and 250GB+ games, then yes, the PS5sSSD would wipe the floor with the SSD the XSX has because with that amount of data the edge the PS5 SSD has would be more apparent. But went onto say that we are talking about 13.5GB of RAM consoles, and a streamheap of around 6-8GB max. With data sets that small, the PS5 SSD isn't going to do wonders. 

I said something to that effect in this very same thread. 

Oh... and you are twisting the words of the developer. Nowhere did he say the PS5 SSD may not be as fast as some think. But here is the real kicker though...whatever the PS5 SSD is or isn't...its still twice s fast as what's in the XSX. Whatever the XSX can do with streaming data into RAM, the PS5 can do it twice as fast. And lets to forget, they both have the same amount of RAM. This is as indisputable a fact as the XSX having 17% more compute and 20% more memory bandwidth (and even the relevance of that last part is debatable).

But damn.. what he said and your interpretation of it are two totally different things.