That's the impression I have too, we're definitely going to have to wait & see if Sony was able to achieve anything special with their extra speed.
The most obvious improvements, loading & app switching, I feel will definitely be impacted by diminishing returns, but this is the first time that they're actually designing games to include an SSD as a minimum so it will have some impacts on development design too.
A lot of these processes...
With 5G & unlimited data, cloud gaming has unlimited potential. Unfortunately mobile 5G data is likely to be rather limited here (though there are already home plans that compete well with the hybrid fibre broadband, it actually costs less for significantly more speed if you happen to be lucky enough to live near a tower).
The other issue is exploiting the potential, the "Netflix or YouTube of gaming" is a cool concept but nothing so far has proven its value. ...
Why are you dictating semantics? The only semantic that bothers me is using the word literally, figuratively.
That's LITERALLY the opposite of its intended definition but so many people use it that way, some thesauruses even include figuratively as both a synonym & an antonym...
PS3 was cheaper than X360??
They'd have used a custom supercomputer if all they care about was making it look its best.
Well there's always the potential that we are the most intelligent species in the universe, as depressing as that sounds while the leader of the most successful country is virtually flinging poop or mindlessly bragging at every opportunity he gets.
You have an interesting memory.
Funny, I've always viewed the rabid fanboys on this site as Trump supporters.
It requires a certain kind of personality to contain all that blind loyalty while being able to instantly dismiss anything that may challenge it.
Have you seen the prices of SSDs? None of it is going to be cheap.
Big annual parties close all the time.
I don't think they meant the literal definition of whelmed, rather the prefix-less colloquialism of over/underwhelmed, there is an actual term for words like that but I just can't remember, Robin in Young Justice uses them all the time.
Put simply, it's in-between under & overwhelming, essentially OK, average, as expected, etc.
I think the major issue with expecting major leaps in graphics details come from resolution & frame rate increases. Most consuming games won't even run at 4k+60fps on the top end $1000+ GPUs, that's roughly 8 times the power use compared to the average gamer using 1080p+30fps a decade ago, & that's before actually improving anything in the game world itself.
Expecting all games to run at 4k is going to cost people using 1080p & 1440p displays (thou...
Would seem that sales were the primary cause for the X360's boost in sales. I recall $99 sales around that point.
No half intelligent person is saying the SSD isn't important, the question is whether Sony's will make as a significant difference as the fans claim relative to the other hardware features.
I did indeed watch it in its entirety & questions regarding bottlenecks were relative to the XsX, his entire presentation explained the improvements over traditional HDDs, & developmental changes to accommodate SSDs as a base to save other resources- yet virtually everything in that presentation would apply to the XsX as well.
What I don't recall is one moment where he explained where the PS5's faster SSD will lead to a notable advantage over the XsX yet ev...
I think it's mostly you & your fellow fanboys making a big deal out of TF one way or the other. Microsoft merely announced it when they showed their console, then Sony showed there's.
Since then there's been constant bitching about how 2 TF doesn't matter, that it won't make a difference, but you definitely won't fail to mention how the faster SSD in the PS5 absolutely trumps the XsX & will make a much greater difference without any testing w...
Both consoles have SSDs, you're jumping the gun to assume that the PS5s will actually provide a better gameplay experience.
I don't think I single improvement that Cerny mentioned during his presentation wouldn't apply to the XsX either.
I'm curious whether developers will find much room for improvement over Microsoft's SSD. There's no argument that virtually any SSD is several magnitudes better than virtually any HDD.
Traditionally though, with PC gaming, there was always a bottle neck where with read/seek speeds, etc, where additional SSD speed meant negligible returns, sometimes the game performance was relatively identically, in terms of both loading & gameplay, no matter how many times...
Perhaps the rumoured Series S is a mild refresh of the One X & essentially the new gen entry level console.
It's not going to be instant. If your connection is particularly good, there may even be times where downloading is faster.