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Dgc1808 on 18 May 2020
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setsunatenshi said:
Pemalite said:

Could be a variety of reasons. There could be some financial benefits put in place or development/technology sharing in order to gain more developer support for the engine, who knows.
EPIC follows the cash cows typically, hence the Epic Store, Hence why they partnered up with Microsoft once, hence why they dropped the Unreal Tournament sequel in favor of Fortnite. EPIC is a business, it's capitalism at work.

We don't know if the drive is upgradeable in the Playstation 5, it's not a commodity drive, so they may lock it down to ensure a degree of consistency with the performance, they wouldn't want people replacing it with a drive half the speed, would they?

But let's say that it theoretically was capable of being upgraded... It would be limited by the 4x PCI-E 4.0 lanes... Which tops out at 8GB/s. (Actually less in the real world due to overheads and so forth.)

Where-as PCI-E 5.0 is gaining traction in the PC space (Controllers already exist) which would offer 16GB/s on a typical nVME drive with 4x lanes.
Or get a PCI-E addon card with 16x lanes for a total of 64GB/s.

Have you watched the Cerny CES presentation? I'm pretty sure the NVME is expandable, they will only have to certify the new drives are a) fast enough and b) actually fit in the console expansion bay. So yeah, expandable and subject to certification.

On the paying narrative, this is just speculation, I'm not sure what Sony would be paying for in this regard. This was not a Sony event, it's multiplatform game engine that just happened to be run on one of the next gen consoles, specific tailored to one's strengths.

I'm staggered by the level of reaching to make this way more than it really is. We all know PC hardware will brute force through what's achievable on the PS5, it's just a matter of time and cost. At the end of the day we'll all benefit from it.

Storage is expandable as setsunatenshi said.

Here's where expanding storage is first mentioned:

https://youtu.be/KasVMOMWM-4?t=991

Here's where the full explanation starts, including pointing out that you can use slower drives and external drives:

https://youtu.be/KasVMOMWM-4?t=1190

But here Cerny states that they are testing retail drives, will be informing us which ones offer best results for PS5 software, and recommend holding off on upgrades until we hear from them:

https://youtu.be/KasVMOMWM-4?t=1382

Last edited by Dgc1808 - on 18 May 2020

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