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yvanjean on 09 June 2020
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Rafie said:
yvanjean said:

Just a bunch of stupid click bait articles. Trying to boost Sony's minor SSD advantage over Xbox, ignoring all other important facts. The article and podcast talk about slower SDD vs Faster CPU/GPU, Sony PS5 focus coverage only talks about the slower SSD. Newsflash there will still be bottleneck and limitation on the PS5. The faster SSD isn't a miracle piece of hardware that future proof the console for the next 10 years. In 3-4 years, when Sony releases a PS5 Pro everyone will have to eat crow. 

When it comes to Hardware base boost to games, the XSX faster GPU and PCU will offer more advantages than Sony's faster SSD for cross-platform games.
All this really means is cross-platform games will have better or no load time on Sony consoles while Xbox games will offer better resolution and frame rate.
People are quick to forget that you are still comparing SSD vs SSD, the SSD in XSX is going to offer all of the same advantages that will benefit the PS5 just at a smaller scale.


So is the GPU and CPU of the Series X a minor advantage of PS5's? I'm genuinely asking. I hear a lot of PS fans say how big the SSD is over XBox's. I also hear Xbox fans say how much more vast the GPU/CPU is over. Won't the GPU/CPU of PS5 offer the same thing as Series X, but on a smaller scale?

Everything that can be done on one console can be easily be done on the other, it's just at what costs. The only benefit is some features might be better on one console over the other. At least for PS5 fans, they should always be the clear winner when it comes to load time. But, don't forget that XSX is going to enjoy much faster load time and the performance of a dedicated SSD when we move to next-gen. When it comes to better games performance Faster GPU & CPU > SSD. 

Some games are more GPU/CPU intense. When it comes to first-party PS5 games, they will build the game from the ground up to move as much of the workload to the SSD. Cross-platform or third party games development on the other end might still be targeting PC HDD, that's why PS5 SSD will be even less of an advantage other than better load times to boost games performance.