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

[Pemalite]

DonFerrari said:

Pemalite said:

What games require really is up to the developer.

The hardware is there for them to use, has been for years, guess the wait was for the rest of the industry to catch up.

But some games on PC did showcase advantages with an SSD with less object and texture pop-in, higher load times and so forth.

With console finally moving to that standard perhaps in a couple years PC will also have SSD as minimum (or similar solutions as you put with RAM) so more changes mainly on how game is made and played can be seem.

There is no guarantee or forced requirement for games to use an SSD as a minimum on next-gen consoles, it's entirely up to the developer.

Just like there was no guarantee or forced requirement for 4k on the "4k consoles" aka, Xbox One X and Playstation 4 Pro.

Just like there was no guarantee of a force 1080P requirement for the Full HD consoles. Aka Xbox One and Playstation 4.

Just like there was no guarantee of 720P on the HD consoles, aka. Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

There is absolutely no guarantee that all games, even a majority of games will leverage the SSD's benefits to the maximum extent theoretically possible on *any* platform...

And that applies to every other feature like 4k, 8k, 60fps, 120fps, Ray Tracing, Tessellation, Motion Controls, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Cloud features or whatever else we can think of.

It is entirely up to the developer... And not all developers are going to prioritize the extra computational capability of the Xbox Series X or the SSD bandwidth of the Playstation 5.

Will there be games that do use those aspects in their entirety? Certainly, but until we have the games starting to get released, I am going to reserve judgement so we can ascertain what the game development trends ends up being... Because it's a very disruptive 12 months for game development as there is a paradigm shift occurring with how games are being rendered and developed.

Hynad said:

Pemalite said:

That is a logical fallacy.
Microsoft has already demonstrated it has invested allot in what drives it's SSD.

And nor am I proclaiming the Playstation 5 doesn't have an advantage over the Xbox Series X in the SSD stakes.

...But verses the PC, the Playstation 5 still cannot match an Enthusiast/Workstation class rig, which is expected of course.

Go and tell that to someone who's not a simple enthusiast:

For PC enthusiasts, the exciting thing about the PS5 architecture is that it’s an existence proof for high bandwidth SSD decompression straight to video memory. Is this enough to get Microsoft, Intel, NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD to work together and do it? We’ll see!

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) June 4, 2020

He is talking in hypotheticals, he says it himself.