Yep, it's still early. It's only March. Why are people expecting to know so much about it at this point? The PS4 wasn't revealed until E3 in June.
PS5 is closer to SX than XBO was to PS4 at launch.
@343_Guilty_Spark
"And that was a 0.6 TF difference."
a .6 TF difference this gen is not equal to a .6 TF difference next gen, at least in terms of anything that matters.
The 1.23 TF is 68% of the 1.8 TF of the PS4.
The 10.28 TF is 85% of the 12.1 TF of SX.
Strictly based on TF, the PS5 is much closer to XS than the XBO was to the PS4.
Just remember, game size won't go up as much as you expect because of everything being solid state. No need for data duplication to reduce seek time.
It also seems like it will vastly reduce the need to pre-load data in to RAM. It can be kept on the SSD until closer when it's actually needed which frees up RAM for other stuff.
If you watch the video, Cerny explains how it's more than just load times. It can free up available RAM because with faster transfer from storage to RAM, it doesn't need to preload so far out. I think the example was PS4 might pre-load 30 seconds of data in case it comes up in gameplay, but that can be down to 1 second with PS5. With the custom SSD chip Sony is using and slower transfer speed on Xbox, who knows what it will be there. I'm guessing it isn't as simple as doub...
The problem is I don't think multi-plats are going to make use of it very well. First parties will most certainly make use of it, but the rest they're going to have to contend with the slower storage access and probably won't benefit as much in level design.
@Nitrowolf2
Swapping data off an external drive is probably quite a bit faster than installing off the disc and downloading updates all over again.
I haven't really seen it in the news. I wonder what amazon is during during this pandemic. I ordered some stuff early Sunday and even Prime stuff won't get delivered until Friday. Starting to work from home tomorrow and needed to get a specific cable as soon as possible, Prime Now has zero open delivery times available.
Knack
I guess this will have to mark the start of my media blockout of the game until it's all released :(
@timotim
Yep, even thought next-gem games will certainly take longer, I'm going to love the hell out of this feature.
I like the idea, but not sure it will be effective. There's some really good opinion stuff out there, but most of it is shit. Allow or unallow opinion articles won't really work. Unless I suppose you can whitelist or block certain sources.
I wonder if we could go the route to whitelisting certain youtubers that we can mostly agree with that bring solid content and not just trying to drive clicks.
I'd actually like an ignore site feature.
A. all
B. 2, 3, and 4
I don't think we need an all out ban on opinions though. I would guess things like Digital Foundry does would fall under opinion and I have no problem with the work they do. It's just so few and far between quality opinion pieces and I'm not sure how we would decide which is ok and which isn't.
edit: reading some comments and thinking, maybe a filter by article type and an option to block sites from appear...
@AnubisG
Yep, damn it. DOESN'T help.
The rest, dunno. How many in the US have reached recovery yet? It's pretty fresh here still.
I don't think the media is blowing anything out of proportion, at least of what I've seen. It's obviously the hot item right now so it's being reported everywhere from many different angles. I don't think coverage is the bad thing. Maybe some are spreading misinformation? I dunno. I don't ...
I think public demos have mostly died off at this point. If there's so much of a sniff of anything being downgraded, people are ready to riot. Also, it runs the risk of the demo not being enjoyable in an unfinished state and it turns off potential buyers.
Yeah. It might not make sense for publishers and developers to hold these big events, but it's sure as hell a lot more fun for me to watch one of those than some pre-recorded video being run. That and the big dump of news in a short span of time, demos, previews and interviews. E3 has been one of the most looked-forward to things of the year for me for a very long time.
He's no Zack, that's for sure.