Because in the console space going from 5400RPM mechanical drives to SSDs is an enormous improvement.
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Why is SSD in PS5 made to look like a game changer? PC’s have had it for decade and it hasn’t made that much difference?
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Read all the other posts. maybe not in raw theoretical speed but in practical terms.
Consoles can have special hardware and software considerations, target one spec. Consoles only do one thing, play video games. You can bet smart people can leverage that.
If there's some kind of special interface in PS5, then yeah maybe it could have THE fastest
Also the thread title is still making me chuckle. Not much difference? I wouldn't ever buy a PC or laptop without an SSD for at least 5 years now. Given acceptable specs in other areas, It's the single best upgrade for everyday performance you can do. That's well established.
I wonder how many folks are going to ignore and simply handwave it as "marketing hype" and downplay the significance of much an NVMe SSD vastly decreases loading times. The average read speeds of a 7200RPM HDD are 120MB/s.
Some NVMe SSD drives (such as the Samsung 970 Evo Plus) have confirmed read speeds of 3.5GB/s.
3500 / 120 = 29 times faster. To say this isn't significant is showcase of ignorance.
Webpages load faster, the OS boots quicker, screen transitions end faster, It's pure speed improvements all in all.
This just a example of between HDD / Sata / NVMe on PC.
A Console with 4th revision of PCIe controlling its bus speed and not limited to SATA III is substantial and is in no way a minor upgrade.
That's beause PCIe 3.0 as seen in most PCs does not offer those huge improvements over SATA with the current random access file storage on PCs. AMD's X570 chipset was recently released with PCIe 4.0 support, offering much higher sustained read and write speeds.
PS5 will obviously use a custom storage/game install format designed for sustained reads with little to no random access. Expect more than 5GB/s read speeds as opposed to 500MB/s to 1GB/s max from random access reads on PC. Depending on whether they use a custom chipset for PCIe 4.0 or not, it might be even higher than that for burst speeds.
It really is a game changer.
It's always amusing to see some PC gamers rush to call the new consoles "weak" or their features "just buzzwords" etc...
With an 8 core / 16 thread Ryzen CPU, around 15tflops of GPU compute power (RDNA) and the fastest SSD on the market they must be sweating this time around ;)
Same. My PC had an issue so I had to stop playing Destiny 2 on it and switch to my X. Goddamn I could make a sandwich with how long it takes to load into a planet.
Pc user that upgraded to a crappy nvme ssd here (intel 660p) from an 5400 HDD.
The difference between my cheap sad to an HDD is extremely brutal. Games such as ck2, EU IV, total war, cities skylines, fallout 4 and surviving mars went from having loadings that lasted a couple of mins to loadings that take a few seconds or 1 min.
Here are some of my concrete examples:
The difference between my cheap sad to an HDD is extremely brutal. Games such as ck2, EU IV, total war, cities skylines, fallout 4 and surviving mars went from having loadings that lasted a couple of mins to loadings that take a few seconds or 1 min.
Here are some of my concrete examples:
- Warhammer total war took me 4 to 6 mins to load a campaign. Now it takes 1 min
- Fallout 4 took 8 to 15 mins to load, now it takes a 3 mins
- Ck2, Hoi IV EU IV and stellaris took 3 mins to start up, now they take a few seconds.
I am afraid you and many others here don't get the premise.
When something is default it's going to to be used in game design, not just faster loading.
Its funny because I want my consoles to last as many years as possible but Im a PC gamer primarily and a new console means a huge step up for PC gaming because consoles push the base standards of hardware and software.
My point is, because the consoles have finally caught up with the PC reading a disc media doesn't mean that their hardware is suddenly going to be a game-changer for the PC gamers that are already using SSD drives now. So it's really only GREAT news for the console players.
Do you think the general public cares about this? Also, the only people that care about this are the ultra tech savvy people. Aka not many people to use the whole marketing argument.
The fastest and THE HOTTEST. As long as they dont forget to put a heatsink on it.
Developers are able to take advantage of SSD's in game design when there is a big enough of a market share of gaming industry that actually has SSD's as standardized hardware. Its the same every gen, and why PC's rarely if ever have games that take advantage of the highest end. Many PC users dont even use SSD's, let alone consoles at this point, and so they stay as a relatively niche thing that can make load times faster but not much else.
Saying otherwise is a fundamental misunderstanding of how games are made and target hardware. HDD's have been a bottleneck to game design just like CPU, RAM and GPU limitations are when it comes to designing games that have to target everything especially with the consoles specifically in mind.
Basically...
This.
And not this. These kinds of posts have zero credibility.
Saying otherwise is a fundamental misunderstanding of how games are made and target hardware. HDD's have been a bottleneck to game design just like CPU, RAM and GPU limitations are when it comes to designing games that have to target everything especially with the consoles specifically in mind.
Basically...
This.
And not this. These kinds of posts have zero credibility.
I really don't think many full next-gen games will be having a switch SKU.
They're more likely to port the PS4 versions of games over to switch.
Even then, exclusives will still make the most of the hardware advantages.
What a laughable response. You know that the next Xbox is going to have an SSD, right?
Well this is rich.
Unfounded, ignorant cynicism.
SSDs as the baseline have huge implications for game development. Games can literally be freed up immensely in how they are designed without always having to account for slow laptop hard drives that have been commonplace for over a decade. No more elevators. No more weird long corridors to hide loading. No more literally having to limit player speed because the game can't load in assets quick enough. Having an SSD today doesn't change design decisions made with slow hard drives in mind. With those out of the picture, things can change dramatically. Your actual experience can now change. Calling it nothing but a bullet point is astoundingly ignorant, which is like...really funny.
I doubt there will be much difference,
right now if load time on HDD is 50s, SSD can be 10s, NVMe would be 9 or 8s,
it would be a big leap if they are cut in half for next gen development, but I really doubt it. we will see.
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Then why is it that only playstation is getting the press about it?
Oh yeah... Bias.
Except the Xbox has been, but right now Sony just confirmed the new console, so people are talking about that.
Your conspiracy bullshit is tiresome dude. Like, coming from someone who gets really tired of Sony fan boys personally, you're being worse. This is silly.
Just read this and yeah thought this was common knowledge here.
nice post
When the title is already so wrong it's almost best to close the thread or edit its title.
Going from HDDs to SSDs on PCs is/was factually one of the best improvements ever. I still recommend every PC user without an SSD to upgrade to one azap.
Going from HDDs to SSDs on PCs is/was factually one of the best improvements ever. I still recommend every PC user without an SSD to upgrade to one azap.
Good grief. The reason they are getting press about it is because they are talking about it. The thread title only saying Sony is pretty dumb, when both MS and Sony will have them.
You also quoted someone who is completely off base about what a standard SSD means for the next-gen consoles.
So again, laughable.
I was thinking maybe redundant data would be a thing of the past, but unfortunately PC won't be like the next gen consoles, and devs will want to make sure PC players using HDDs wouldn't have a horrible experience.
Anyone attempting to argue that SSD's in next gen are not a big shift in game design for developers at large are being intentionally obtuse of the facts to suit a false narrative they have.
Its also funny when it comes from the same PC players who extol the virtues of PC gaming and SSD's's superiority over HDD solutions any other time.
What we're talking about is not just making load times slightly faster, and so i'll say it again, anyone who is arguing this to be the case is acting ignorant on purpose.
Its also funny when it comes from the same PC players who extol the virtues of PC gaming and SSD's's superiority over HDD solutions any other time.
What we're talking about is not just making load times slightly faster, and so i'll say it again, anyone who is arguing this to be the case is acting ignorant on purpose.
Because now developers will be able to design their games without worrying about the speed limit of a slow hard drive. That's why is also great that the PS5 is using a Zen2, as that will mean better multi-core support for those games on PC.
This smug dismissal being so pervasive is kind of really funny to me.
"Ah yes," *stirs tea*, "everything is marketing and it is stupid. Nothing is good or has any effect. We are all being lied to. Ha, I am so smart. SSDs will do nothing but shave off a few seconds of loading. You enthusiastic fools. This is nothing to get excited about."
EDIT: ^ Lol and there it is again.
It is a game changer for console games. I honestly don't know how people can agree with "marketing. bullet point buzz words. Ignorance". Meh, whatever floats your boats I guess.
If people can be arsed to make an effort, I'd suggest watching Insomniac's GDC presentation pertaining to Spider-man's streaming system design.
If people can be arsed to make an effort, I'd suggest watching Insomniac's GDC presentation pertaining to Spider-man's streaming system design.
I mean it's a big upgrade but at the same time it's whatever, SSDs been readily available. It's a big deal but not a big deal at the same time.
But who cares if SSDs have already been available if everyone has to design games as if they aren't necessarily.
What about asset duplication making games bigger just so that the spindle on the hard drive doesn't have to go as far and making loading a little faster? What about hallways and elevators and player speed limitations and winding corridors and forced cutscenes designed to mask loading that will no longer be necessary? These aren't all things that can be eliminated today because games are designed to have them, and engines are designed to expect them. So even though we have the hardware to do it, we don't have the games to take advantage of the hardware, because they are being designed for slower hardware.
So cases where it's simply a loading screen, yes you see massive differences. But cases where a game is literally designed around expecting to have slow hardware, with an engine that expects slow hardware, no you don't see massive differences. Once SSDs are the baseline, the latter can essentially be completely eliminated. That's pretty huge considering EVERY GAME has to do this in some way. Devs have just gotta very good at masking it.
And even if none of this was true, load times being slashed like that Monster Hunter example on the first page is huge and it's great that console players will get it (remember that even though SSDs make some difference on consoles today, they are bottle-necked by SATA II for some bizarre reason). The fact that that is only one of the benefits is kind of awesome. Like, that's a benefit we can see now, on a game that wasn't designed to take advantage of SSDs, so all that is changed is the loading time between areas. With games designed around SSDs, we'll see yet another level improvement that will making PC gaming even better, which as a PC gamer, is pretty damn exciting.
If you want to be educated do what I've done and follow actual developers talking about this stuff instead of smug, cynical forum posters.
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I think you will see the difference when loading times don't affect the design of next gen games. Just from a QOL standpoint it will be immediately noticeable though.
Hmm well that sounds pretty major, interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
Right? See like I feel like this is something to be optimistic about. There will still be people who are disappointed, but I think that if you have a proper understanding of what this involves, it is definitely something to be happy about. I think a lot of Era gets so used to being cynical they don't actually think critically about what's going on.
Like even with the common sense what I knew about load hallways and things, I had no idea about the asset duplication thing until the other day. Games being even smaller is another great plus that maybe isn't the most "exciting" but still great news.
The CPU power increase isn't going to change games as much as people think. It's basically going to drive those lower load times, manage more shit AI code because it's the developers faults that we have bad AI, which is why Fear from last generation still has some of the most convincing AI of any game released.
Deep learning AI via cloud services will probably have a bigger impact on games than the CPU.
SSDs are great for load times, but was N64's no load times a game changer vs Playstation?
What PS5 allows is for more actors on scene with unique AI, so open world games can feel less empty. It can also be used for frame rates above 60 and driving graphics of bigger areas.
Until they show us new stuff the cpu and SSD can do for the actual games, it's just more load times, more actors.
No? Were we talking about value proposition or something, I thought we were talkin biggest upgrade.
