Ah yes yes the SSD, the Sony fans version of secret sauce for this gen 😆

Mark my words... It's like 5 Cell super computers taped together, you'll see!!

Still tripping about this #PS5 SSD spec. Like, people don’t even know how big of a leap in terms of game design can be made, especially for 1st party that doesn’t have to design to lowest common denominator. By far the biggest leap in my career. Can’t wait.

— Kurt Margenau (@kurtmargenau) March 19, 2020

Nope, specialists in VGC will tell you it is meaningless since PC use SSD for over a decade and also that current tools are so good that having to develope to very weak HW won't impact gaming development at all.

It is just marketing fluff, don't mark my words.

I was just messing around a bit. Seriously, though, I expected a very traditional pc-like design from Sony, but it seems like they're going for something else entirely. Sending pictures of your ears and an entire system build around some unreal SSD design... it all sounds a bit out there. Still, I'm sure Sony knows what they're doing. There must be a reason why the whole SSD thing was on top of the list of things developers wanted to see in a next gen console. All I know is that it will definitely be interesting to see what Sony's 1st party studios will do with it. 

In any case, developers (not just Sony's 1st party) seem to pretty excited about it. 

What John is saying sounds pretty right to me! I don't want to down play GPU power, but I promise everybody that you will be absolutely blown away by visuals on both consoles. However, the SSDs are the big difference when coming into this gen. We're not talking about "load times" in the classic sense. That's an antiquated way of thinking about data coming from your hard drive. For the last 10+ years we've been streaming worlds on the fly. The problem is that our assets are absolutely huge now, as are our draw distances, and our hard drives can't keep up. It means that as you move through the world we're trying to detect and even predict what assets need loading. Tons of constraints get put into place due to this streaming speed.

An ultra fast drive like the one in PS5 means you could be load in the highest level LOD asset for your models way further than you could before and make worlds any way you want without worry of it streaming in fast enough. The PS5 drive is so fast I imagine you could load up entire neighborhoods in a city with all of their maps at super high resolution in a blink of an eye. It's exciting. People don't realize that this will also affect visuals in a big way. If we can stream in bigger worlds and stream in the highest detail texture maps available, it will just look so much better.

I think the Xbox drive is also good! The PS5 drive is just "dream level" architecture though.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/devs-react-to-ps5-specs-twitter-edition.175980/

Oh geez. I thought that might happen, but said it was unlikely. https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9123717 

Do you think these consoles will be as RAM limited as PS3 and 360 were by 2010-2013?

To add to that. One of the things we might want to look at is how much VRAM current gen games use on PC, specially at 4k since that's what the next gen consoles will be targeting. Some are not bad but others are... Holy Jebus!

Here's a few examples:

Yep, I can already see it, the Console Warz next gen is gonna be a re-run of "Blast Processing" on Megadrive vs Mode 7/more colours/etc on SNES, and TEV on Gamecube vs programmable pixel shaders on Xbox.

Both sides will latch onto the things their box does better and talk it up while downplaying the "enemy" box's advantages.

It's going to play a large front-and-center role that is for sure.

Is it a game changer? Yes. Yes it is. But it's not a replacement for Ram, it helps with a RAM confined environment.

I am genuinely excited... And so should everyone regardless of platform you use.

We see this argument every console generation that because consoles have a sizable performance advantage over low-end and mid-range PC's, that somehow the PC versions of console games will somehow end up being compromised... Which has never happened.

Game engines are simply scalable.

You will get a good experience on either platform.

There are Pro's and Con's to each individual approach.

Replace 8GB GDDR5, Cell etc' with SSD. Same shit, different generation.

You are taking a dig without mentioning names. You seem overtly salty.

I suggest you move on and stop bringing this up every opportunity you can, it's not constructive rhetoric.

And they are current gen titles... Food for thought. The SSD will be doing allot of heavy lifting next-gen.

I'm saying Sony will likely get the better deal because PS5 will more than likely sell a lot more (prior history puts it 90-100 million+) and hence yearly orders will be higher. You simply wanted me to elaborate on the last two phrases but I thought that would be obviously implied. 

XSX is more powerful but PS5 is going to be "faster". If you can load data twice as fast then you may not need as much RAM to get the same on screen results: the RAM could only need to store 1 second of gameplay instead of 2 seconds.

Honestly its too early to call which is more technically capable since they follow different ideologies, and so we must wait for the games.