Dev Lauds SSD Inclusion In PS5 And Xbox Scarlett, ‘Load Times Will Never Be The Same’

Alex Golebiowski of Pixelnauts is thrilled about what next gen hardware is looking to offer.

[Pedantic91]

A lot excitement around SSD.

Yet, i feel it has more to do with optimization and not just bigger and better HW to solve their issues.

Im almost certain the PS4 still has a lot of untapped potential if the devs would spend more time developing around the HW itself instead of treating it like a PC.

[DJStotty]

I know right, like SSD is some kind of brand new tech /s

The SSD was created in no less than 1988

[UltraNova]

Yes but it still isn't a standard PC part. Next gen consoles will all feature SSDs making it the first time ever a platform has them as standard, this is why its so important now to devs and users alike.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

Does every gaming PC have an SSD? That's where the next gen games will benefit, the devs can actually code to it. Let's see how well it is utilised or if it makes no difference apart from load screens.

I'd rather be optimistic

[AnubisG]

Many of the tech that was just released or about to be released has been around for decades but not available for the mass market do to various different factors. SSD's are still realatively expensive and concidered a relatively new part for PC's.

So what is your point?

[Imortus_san]

Main PC problem and reason I like gaming on consoles is, nothing is ever a standard in the PC world.

[Vetgamer]

Yes it's a ssd but with Sony magic.

[JunMei]

@oldboy

umm... SSDs aren't a thing to be coded to. It's just read and write speeds. If you put an SSD into your PS4 right now, you will have immediately faster load times. No "special coding" required.

[rainslacker]

SSD has been around a while, along with other Static RAM storage mediums. But, with PC, since it's not a standard across the board, there is no way to utilize it for every game, or design high speed random access routines at a core level of the game design.

A closed system like onsoles, that can be done, because everyone will have that set up.

[harmny]

Untapped potential? Do you think consoles are magic devices? It's literally a PC. They even use the same x86 architecture
The only difference is they are optimized to run games instead of doing a million different things like a PC.
And the hardware was already outdated when they launched. You should be thankful it can run new games as well as they do

[AnubisG]

Oh, look at Mr. Grumpy. Did those bad consoles hurt you?🤣

[harmny]

@AnubisG
They didn't. I own a PS4 and i like it. But I don't lie to myself. Like thinking it has untapped potential 6 years after its release or thinking ps5 will run games at 8k 120fps with a 1tb SSD for $400

[rainslacker]

A console and a PC may be similar hardware wise, but the way the software is made for them is fundamentally different. PC programs do not code to the hardware, at least on modern operating systems, outside some linux applications. On a PC, programs are written to a higher level API, and the operating system handles all I/O processes, and interpreting the software to run on whatever hardware exists.

While a console can have the system do this as well to some degree, the software is built to access the hardware directly.

This can be both good and bad. Good, because you can get significantly better performance if you code right to the hardware. Bad, because it can take more knowledge or time to get things to work.

[jukins]

Lol who isnt developing around the hardware? That makes no sense...optimization or not having an ssd drastically reduces all things loading. So imagine if as you say devs optimize around the hardware which will all have standard a custom ssd solution load times could possibly cease to exist.

That's why there the excitement. No more long initial load times no more pop in. Straight to gaming.

Imo the ssd being standard is gonna be the best feature of next gen.

Next time you play a game try and calculate how much time is spent waiting for loading. In games like the division 2 loads are ridiculous. Minutes to load the character select minutes to load the game world, minties to fast travel lots of time spent loading.

[Slappy McGee]

I give it two years tops before devs expand the size of their games or the size of the in game worlds and negate any benefit of the SSD. They all want you playing their game longer (being engaged in it) so they make everything bigger and bigger like Ubisoft did with AC Odyssey.

[DJStotty]

Exactly, granted launch titles will have minimal load screens, but a few years down the line when the games are 4/5 times as large, guaranteed there will be a few loading screens.

Using non-existent load screens as some sort of selling point in my opinion de-values what the consoles can actually achieve.

You dont by a console because of how many loading screens it has

[roadkillers]

Yes, but there development techniques that can hide the loading where the user does not experience it.

We have been promised no loaded since PS3 and probably before it. Although, I do not remember loading in God of War, was there?

[nismo370]

Dev said = Gamingbolt

[OneEyedSteve]

A Dev said hello...Half Life 3 confirmed - Gamingbolt.

[Giblet_Head]

Welcome to 2009

[Vetgamer]

Ssd are still expensive compared to a normal 1tb drive. Makes me wonder how much ps5 is going to cost.

[SprigganN4G]

In Nov 2020, a 1TB NVME PCIE 4.0 with a wooping 4.5GB/s to 5GB/s will be 60-70 bucks for us the consumers, for Sony and Microsoft will be HALF. Say goodbye to loading times. If i had to bet, thats the storage we will see into the PS5 and the XB Scarlett. The next gen jump will be like PS2 to PS3.

[AnnaDea]

The technique of SSD is not something new in overall, it´s kinda old. But games will from now on be developed with SSD in mind, that´s why news like this is huge when Sony decided that PS5 will have SSD on day one.

The transition from PS4 to PS5 will certainly be mind blowing.

Sony has always had that extra juice for every console generation.

Playstation: Polygons
Playstation 2: Emotion Engine
Playstation 3: Cell (You knowl, the console that was so hard to code for and cost an arm and a leg...)
And don't forget the jump from SD 480p to HD 1080p was huge.
Playstation 4: 4k and HDR.

Playstation 5 will be all about how fast all these textures will load. Game developers will have an insane possibility to go insane with their creativity now when they don't to worry about loading up textures and data.

Say Good bye to pop-ups.

The most thing that will be incredible with the SSD is the draw distance the worlds will be in from now on.

2020 will be the game year of the lifetime!

[Shuckylad]

So load times are going to finally get close to the 8/16 bit consoles. It’s only taken over 25 years.