Digital Foundry: Control PS5 vs Xbox Series

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Otter said:

shikamaru317 said:

Kind of strange that the PS5's faster SSD isn't really improving load times compared to Series S and X on this game. The fastest load time DF got was actually on Series S, though only by a fraction of a second.

I wanted to say it could be a CPU bottle neck, but then that would imply Sony wasted resources the all that extra speed on the SSD. So far we've only seen a second or 2 advantage despite the 2x difference in performance. I guess ports and cross gen games are not the best place to judge the value of the SSDs. 

Current gen game engines are built to run on hard drives. Once we move on from cross-gen games in a couple/few years time we'll see some big changes in load times. Even some games now on PS5 like Spiderman and Demons Souls with sub 3 sec load times, for example.

And if UE5 demo is anything with ultra high quality assets streaming is anything to go by.. lets be patient :P