Nintendo Switch 2 Tech Performance Discussion

[Chrkeller]

borisr said:

Chrkeller said:

Actually S2 carts are being reported at 220 mb/s.  While with SD express speeds max at 900 mb/s.  The ps4 internal is 88 mb/s, close to carts.  The ps4 supports external drives up to 600 mb/s, close to SD express.

On the slip side the ps5 is at 5,500 mb/s, well beyond carts and SD express.  

Factually, the S2 sits closer to the ps4 in read/write speeds than the ps5.  

Not too mention drive speeds help primarily with loading and occasionally with ultra quality texture loading.  Given the S2 has a max memory bandwidth of 102 gb/s, it isnt going to use ultra high textures, thus not going to significantly impact gaming.

So, swing and a miss.  

One could easily build a HDD based computer and be perfectly fine with 99% of games.  Heck, DF, got Rift Apart working with a standard hdd.  Only thing fast drives do is reduce loading and data transfers.  Impact to actual gaming is extremely minimal.

Feel free to check out Steam where Rift recommends SSD, but isn't required.  And Rift is one of the few games where drive speed would have an impact.

Gaming is largely bottlenecked by gpu, the other aspects have way smaller impacts.  

Full bs. Also its good that you understand that pc players are by far worst gaming community. And you fully deserve that terrible reputation. Sony moving away from pc is very moral thing.

lol, k.  Great argument, love the structure and factual delivery.  Well thought.