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DonFerrari said:
Thanks for giving that info, so 28% more than what I was expecting. Should be enough for most games of 9th gen, but sure thing we will get some 2 discs due to 4k assets. |
Some 7th gen games were running 4k textures/assets (Rage comes to mind for example with 4096x4096 textures), 8th gen games it was even more common with some games using 8k assets.
I would expect 16k assets to be the general 9th gen target.
Output resolution and asset resolution like textures tends to be independent of each other.
128GB should be more than sufficient for 99% of games, you can definitely fit more than 128GB of data on an optical disk using compression...
And the benefit there is we can dump that data directly form optical disk to the SSD in an already-compressed state and the hardware decompression on the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X can decompress it on the fly on a per-needs basis.
Truly fantastic stuff in all honesty.
SvennoJ said:
It wouldn't surprise me if games continue to come of blu-ray. Either download the rest or multiple discs. I doubt they are going to change production lines to 4K blu-rays while pushing digital. Heck, FS 2020 came out on 10 DVDs (only available in Europe) |
Hoping they do.
The interesting thing with the Xbox Series X/Xbox Series S is if Microsoft ever wanted to ditch blu-ray media for one reason or another and retain physical media... They have a very convenient high-speed cartridge slot, so if ROM ever manages to match NAND in a cost/performance basis, Microsoft can produce carts and be automagically be compatible from the get-go.
It also means that potentially the Xbox Series S may not always be a digital-only console.
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