Good luck playing all the AAA ps exclusives on your pc.

if the future was here years ago on PC - why am i still waiting to play RDR1 on that platform?

I dont know how you guys are going without SSD in 2019!!!

I have had SSD for about 7 years now lol.

Indeed.

Indeed, 10+ year old consumer technology.

Please, consoles predict the future while PC waits in the loading dock.

@mogwaii Please explain what you are trying to say. I am having trouble understanding.

But this article is not about pc.
How many times and how much money have you spent keeping your oh so powerful pc up to date?

@pickeledpepper Dude its not that bad lol. I literally only added 4gb of ram since I built my PC and that was like $35. Dont assume things.

Does it trigger you that no one cares that your a PC elitist?

SSDs have been available on PC for a while but they certainly never eliminated load times. Depending on tbe game, the disparity could be anything between massive and minimal improvement. Even with NVMe drives and PCIe4, games can only push and move data as fast as the OS' file system and I/O capabilities will allow. As per Mark Cerny the PS5 will have a unique proprietary I/O solution in addition to the SSDs, something Windows won't be able to replicate.

It's gonna be interesting to see how multiplats are affected because of this. If a game is built around being able to traverse incredible distances very quickly, which relies on the ability tl stream and process geometry and assets extremely quickly (as we saw wjth the SpiderMan demo) how will the PC versions function. This might result in some games being retooled or nerfed altogether on Windows.

I don't think it is just that consoles are using SSDs this is considered ground breaking. People have been putting SSDs in their PS4 for years. It likely that the SSD is not using the SATA bus as the bandwidth is limited. I suspect it is either using PCIe bus and / or some additional cache mechanism to pre-fetch data. That said, PC use of drives such as M.2 PCIe SSD drives is somewhat common now.

that future sucks. still waiting to play on red dead redemption 2 in your timeline :P

Not really. PC still uses high level OS operations to transfer data, which means games aren't designed around the ability to have near instantaneous access to data to move around quicker

Not in the early 90s. The mega drive and snes kicked the PCs ass at 2d games. Even the N64 was miles better back in the day.

Markymark Sony has been involved in memory and harddrive for decades this isnt them just stepping in. It's not a play on Mark Cerny words.

Sony has always done r&d on memory harddrive hell anything hardware related. They have memory and hard drive patents even as far back as 20 years up until now.

I'm kinda baffled that you obviously think Sony is just a video game company and its impossible for them or anyone to have solutions better than what's on mass market. Just look back at how many times Sony has tried to have a proprietary storage solution out on the market.

Also all Samsung Intel wg etc have to make their equipment that has to compatible in an infinite amount of configurations. When you have one configuration its much easier to improve upon it

Hmmm my memory seems a little blurry, but didn't we hear this around the same time the PS3 came out, that the cell processor was going to "revolutionize" the processor... Here we are a decade later and Sony's CPU is long and forgotten about, while greedy Intel still owns most of the market. Just because they have a patent and dabbled in something means nothing other than that. Lol like I said its a company, not a cult, but enjoy blindly following. I will enjoy the options and always weigh the pros and the cons and be sceptical of any claim of any platform or any device, gaming-related or not.

Lmao you must be a Microsoft fanboy. . . No one said, especially not me, that the cell was gonna be revolutionary, why even bring that up? Intel? Who's talking about cpus? And honestly AMD is there taking marketshare away from Intel every day.

And again Sony hasnt just dabbled as I said theyve always tried to have a proprietary storage solution many many times let alone the decades of r&d how is that dabbling?

I'm still wondering how saying Sony has a proprietary solution that's supposedly faster than pcie 4.0 somehow means I'm blindly following a company. Please explain the only thing I can think of is your a Microsoft fanboy and this potentially positive Sony news has you triggered.

But I am not a Sony fanboy, I own a Ps4 and PC, I also wish my PC was Linux based, but not all games support it, soo far from an MS fanboy.. You just wish I was an MS fanboy because it fits your script, you can't seem to understand anything else besides one side or the other. I don't blindly follow any statement by a company until it is proven, even outside of gaming. Yes AMD is taking market share from Intel, I have a Ryzen 7 2700x in my pc, a lot of my friends who upgraded recently from older Intel cpu's switched to the Ryzen platform. But Intel still owns the market, and the point I made before, just proves having a dicussion with you is pointless, its either one side or the other with you lol. Now on to the other point, it went entirely over your head, and I never said you said anything, I said the buzz around the internet and headlines read "revolutionary design" they envisioned it in every device in your household so they could all talk. From the Ps3 itself, to the TV to the dam toaster. But I guess you just like to dabble in news articles and actual knowledge about what you speak on, sounds familiar. Enjoy blindly following, btw why do you seem so mad?