Looks like the SSD aka the secret sauce will help the PS5 sell millions and dominate worldwide 😁

You know, so many people have a hard time wrapping their minds around this.

I keep telling them that the SSD is so fast, that it masters foveated rendering. I keep telling them that they're not going to see a 2TF difference.

Decima supports my point: on PS4, we saw Horizon: Zero Dawn, a game that should otherwise be impossible to maintain such high visual fidelity with good performance in an open world setting on less than 2TF—ANOTHER reason people shouldn't read into that. It accomplishes this by giving grand priority to anything the player can see and giving a lot less in the way of computation resources to what cannot. Cerny seems to suggest you can pretty much get away with spending NO resources on what can't be seen, which I have to say, is seriously impressive. That frees up a ton of resources.

Another point, the Unreal 5 demo running on PS5 showed the character at the end flying around with zero pop in.

This thing is fast, and it goes so far beyond just loading times. I don't think people will really see the point until you get one of the big first party Playstation studios on it.

I'll say this: The way these boxes were designed will make for some very interesting comparisons. We'll likely see better physics and such from Series X due to the wider GPU. Outside of that, I think the 12TF gang will want to reconsider the strength of their argument. Tflops are, and always were, theoretical performance. It's essentially an index with limited meaning. The SSD in the PS5 has consistently been lauded above anything else I've heard coming out of next gen developers.

I wish people listened to them more. I understand their point and I'll even say don't listen to me. Results will speak for themselves, that's all.

Considering Cerny has stated that, Sony has stated that, and every developer that talks about it has said that, I think it's safe to assume that the SSD is a bigger deal than some want to admit. Heck, even Epic Games, the maker of the most popular game engine in the world, has said it's a major game changer in their own way.....and showed off practical reasons why yesterday.

For the most part, they've basically made a system which has a substantial memory boost, and memory is a huge factor in how much can be put in a game play scene, and what can be done in it. Even if something only happened once in that scene, it could take up valuable resources. Now, it can just be loaded in on the fly, and more memory committed to other things which improve the overall experience.

Here CEO of Epic speaking specifically about PS5:

”PS5 storage solution is far ahead of the current highest-end PC.The ability of the hardware and engine to stream massive amounts of content has a much greater impact on gaming than people are expecting right now. Sony’s storage system is ’absolutely world-class’ and ’not only the best in class in consoles but the best in any platform.’”

this is straight from their unreal engine reveal.

During the interview segment of the show yesterday they said to run the demo on another platform they would have to scale down in order to do it. Then they talked about smart phones to mask that they were talking about all platforms. PS5 SSD is the fastest on the market and custom made by sony to deliver unbelievable rendering speeds.

It's on another level.

It's a salty pill to swallow huh? It's okay Xbox has some advantages.

Dont really care what technic was or wasnt used if the games are gonna look like this. PS5 looks to blow the competition away. Especially after what Epic CEO said about it.

That's cool.

And you know what....most people won'ot care about 4K, or 60fps.

They look at things like the UE5 demo, and they're impressed. Do they have low expectations? Well, yeah. people don't really know what to expect with this new technology. Are your higher expectations relevant to them? not really. They see what they see, and if they like it, then they like it.

You know what I really think? I think a lot of the Xbox fan boys, and even some of the Sony one's, really don't have their expectations high enough. Even now, they don't seem to understand what kind of changes can come graphically with next gen hardware. More so, they don't understand the advances that will come with other aspects of game play. It'd be funny, if people weren't just exhibiting the most shallow of understandings of what they're actually excited for.

For all the bluster about Sony not showing anything these past couple months, as of right now, Sony has the only real time game play scenario, or even actual game play for one game, shown for next gen. beating out even MS, who so far, hasn't been bothered to show anything that isn't a pre-rendered trailer. MS has some cross gen stuff being shown on next gen hardware. Sony hasn't showed their stuff yet, but Epic just associated a big advancement to graphics, and even some tech stuff, in a real practical and tangible application that people can finally wrap their heads around and move away from the abstract construct of "Most powerful console with -insert techy sounding next gen marketing jargon for a feature here-".

Now, I don't know about you, but the average customer....the people randomly wandering around YouTube, will see this from Sony, even though they didn't release it. In the mean time, you have Phil over here saying, "Oh yeah, we're excited that we'll be using this game engine sometime next year when it releases....be excited because I said we're going to have it."

You tell me....what's really more important in the grand scheme of things?