MS Executive says Devs will need to learn how to work around Slower SSD on XSX

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shikamaru317 said:

TruckOSaurus said:

I don't know or care much about specs talk but mark my words: the PS5 version of 3rd party games WILL have elevators!

You're 100% right. 3rd party multiplat games are designed for the lowest common denominator and then scaled up usually. Most 3rd party multiplats the first 2 years of the gen will be cross-gen games, meaning they have to be designed so they can run on the base Xbox One and PS4, which have slow 5400 RPM laptop hardrives. Once last-gen support starts to get dropped in 2022 and 3rd party multiplats start to become PC/XSX/PS5 only, the lowest common denominator will become low spec PC gamers, and many low spec PC gamers will be running SATA SSD's, which are a good deal cheaper and slower than Xbox Series X's NVMe SSD, let alone PS5's NVMe SSD. Since the lowest common denominator will be a SATA SSD, elevators will still be used to mask loading screens, as they always have been.

And of course, not all elevators are in games just to mask loading screens, sometimes it is a design choice. Elevator battles are common in many games, with waves of enemies attacking while going up an elevator, devs aren't going to just suddenly start abandoning that particular gaming trope.

Does that comon denominator factor only applies to SSD's?