I implore you to go through that part of the presentation again.
Show me where he says it, i will wait. I watched the ssd part multiple times over and this is what he mentions.
1) boot game in a second ( faster loading )
2) no load screens ( faster loading )
3) faster loading in next area's without needing hold up content, because faster drive that can feed the memory. ( faster loading )
4) no publicated data on the SSD and DISC ( smaller space required then sony games do right now ) because u can stream data in more easier.
5) faster patch installs to the point they almost disappear and this is right because i have the same thing on my 3,5gb ssd, if you got enough speed u can do stuff all together instead of waiting on every task.
Then he goes into the material about a better costum chip for the SSD to optimize it and compression + hardware that is needed to get that ball rolling.
Edit
If you talk about the part where he comes forwards with next gen paradigm where he explains SSD functions in some ways more like ram, yes you could say it like that. But in no way it can function as ram even while in some ways it functions more like ram if you compare it towards the HDD he did just before hand. That's what he was mentioning.
Because if he would have said it, he would have been straight up lying as that's not possible even remotely technology wise.
That's the issue with any SSD, no matter how fast he makes it or not. It's kinda pointless because the things that need to be speed up the most isn't the gb's but the access time mainly and that's where SSD suck balls in for stuff u would want to have in ram.
Cerny is specifically talking about to speed up loading times as much as possible as they want to eliminate loading and that's exactly what they are trying to do and go out with a blazing fast SSD and costum hardware to get that ball rolling even further.
However his SSD will perform just as poorly as any SSD for ram purposes. That's also why he moved over that point and never came back towards it.
Will SSD improve ram management yes. But any SSD will do that as u can feed information faster into it. This is why on some PC titles u already need a SSD to get smooth performance.