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Norion on 06 May 2025
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Hardstuck-Platinum said:
Pemalite said:

I get that.

There ARE going to be people who care about the drop of power with the Switch 2.
And there are going to be people don't care about the drop of power with the Switch 2.
And there are going to be people who care about the drop of power from the Playstation 5 Pro to Playstation 5.

We are all different people with different tastes, goals and expectations... And that is why all these devices that target different performance tiers and pricing exist, because we all like different things.

The drop of power between the Series S and Playstation 5 is arguably a larger gulf than what we saw with the Xbox One and Playstation 4.
The extra speed of the PS5's SSD basically was non-existent advantage, just like the Xbox Series X larger SoC is a non-existent advantage, they are for all intents, basically the same consoles.

I was just wondering recently if that super fast SSD choice was a total waste of money on Sony's part. All of the PS5 games that get ported to PC can run perfectly fine on a cheap and slow (relatively to ps5) SSD. 

Not a total waste since it can have even faster loading times than the Xbox Series but it was definitely very overhyped since those are already so low on even a modest NVME and the game design and gameplay benefits from moving past hard drives haven't needed speed beyond SATA level so far.

Though perhaps it'll make more of a difference down the line since even now some games need to run on the slow hard drives in the last gen consoles and unless something is PS5 and PC only and requires an SSD at least that fast in the PC a game won't be fully taking advantage of that speed and developers won't wanna cut off that many gamers from playing their games so maybe a few years from now certain games that are PS5/PS6/PC only will start requiring faster SSDs.

Sony should for sure not go as hard with the SSD in the PS6 though, better to stick with a mid-range one than go high end considering how little the PS5 has benefited from doing that so far.