There's a 5-6X speed difference between SATA III and NVMe. You definitely want the latter.
The speed comparison Cerny made leads me to believe this is exactly what it will be. A high-quality NVMe SSD has at least 15 times the throughput of the best consumer hard drive.
Yes. I'm thinking M.2 form, with NVMe interface. 3 GB/sec currently, about 6 times SATA III SSD speed, and over 15 times the best spinning-hard-drive speed.
Yeah, that first time your PC boots up in less than 10 seconds is quite a revelation.
It doesn't have to get built into the motherboard to have blazing-fast throughput. Something like NVMe or another multi-lane PCIe variant would do for an internal plug-in SSD with speeds multiple times SATA III's.
Be a good little boy, don't upset anyone with power, and they won't send the thugs to strip you of everything you have. That's one philosophy of life, I guess.
There's more than one of us here. I still don't know exactly how this restriction works. The first thing he should do is pull the plug on the internet to his PS4, and see if he can still play his games offline. If not, well, I hope he puts up a fight against the outright theft.
A fight for individual freedom over the repressive left and the corporate powerful? Nah. Couldn't be. They're morons.
@gunnerboy8: You've swallowed too much of that kool-aid. What you buy is yours, despite reams of legalese trying to claw it back from you. Don't give in to that power play.
If Sony committed theft, then yes: Sony messed up. It's fine to ban the guy from the service. It's not fine to steal everything he purchased through it.
The ban is not the issue. The theft is. Imagine Sony sending goons to your home to take away all your game DVDs because you said something they didn't like. That's conceptually no different from what happened here (if I understand the events correctly).
Theft is not a punishment. It is a crime.
Agree completely. And actually, he can still run his digital games if they're installed on his primary console. Read the text in the headline thumbnail. All he should have to do is take his primary console offline to play all his offline-capable games, regardless of how much Sony has succumbed to the political climate. This works for the Xbox environment as well. As long as there is a local licenses file, you don't need to go online at all to play downloaded games.
Beyond the exclusive Nintendo games, the attraction is that you can do both with the same system, and with the same running game. The tradeoff is lower graphic fidelity when docked than competing home consoles. If you don't ever play games on the go, and you don't like Nintendo games, the Switch is not for you.
@jaycptza: Probably better than any other version on the bus to work or school.
Really? That's good to know.
More censorship on Youtube? Good thing we don't use Google to stream our games . . . oh, wait.
Like PS4, but way better. That's exactly what the fans want. If you find that boring, you're not one of them.
3D audio is nothing new. The right software can use 2 properly phased speakers to create a soundstage that far exceeds the space between them, both in width and depth. (We only have 2 ears, after all.) This has been so for years. I'm curious to learn what Sony has wrought here. Is it a big improvement over the existing software tech? We'll find out soon enough, I guess.
I hate it when I do that. We all have brain farts sometimes. Just laugh it off.