I like how selective GAF is. If one dev say that SSD won't change open world games dramaticly, they are Xbox fanboys. When Sony devs will say, that it is most revolutionary thing in industry, fanboys here just applaud.
It's nonsense. In a past few days i found out, that fast SSD can bruteforce weaker GPU specs, and that Kraken will be savior of PS5 (despite BCpack) and Tempest audio is most revolutionary thing in history of gaming. Almost like few years ago Microsoft was trying to persuade us about "power of cloud" and how can ESRAM overcome lower speed memory.
And what i like the most is, that Sony fanboys here are comparing PS5 SSD to XsX as if XsX had 5400rpm HDD, which is not true and they are talking about few unbelivable features despite the fact, that XsX has plenty of custom silicon too, they just wasn't focusing on it in their article (see BCpack vs. Kraken). XsX SSD is great on paper and for majority of games, devs will need to design their games with all hardware in mind, so maybe loading times will be only space, where we could potentionaly see any difference. And 1st party Sony dev can do what they want, but that's what? Like 2-3 games per year?
For me, it is nice, that Sony tried, but i think we learned by now, that dev resources are scarce and devs will optimize with the easiest way to save time and cost. We saw that in 360/PS3 era, we saw that in PS4/XOne era. No 3rd party dev will create different game just to use all the power of that mighty SSD. No one.
It's really last gen in reversal. Sony fans in full damage control, trying to find every straw to compensate for weaker specs with fluff. And also downplaying everything that Xbox showed. Yeah, Microsoft have 15 first party studios just to sit down and fiddle with their balls, also Game Pass is worst deal and it will destroy whole industry. Jesus, just wake up. There is nothing wrong with slightly less powerful console. If it will cost less money, everything is as it should be (but i´m not sure if PS5 will be cheaper because of that insane SSD, which is likely expensive as fuck, hence only 825GB capacity).
For example. Cerny came out and said, their SSD is 825GB. Sony fans came out to defend it with shit like "It's capacity of space that you can use" and "Cerny said it like that because he is IT guy," despite the fact, that never ever anybody from Microsoft/Sony talked about console space with available storage. Everybody is talking about maximum storage. Not even Cerny last gen. But try to say it here and few zealots will eat you alive
Most funny thing is, that if Sony came out with 13,3TFLOPS or something like that, we wouldn't have last 200 pages of "mighty SSD will put Xbox to shame" because PS fans would just talk about "my dream console is more powerful and therefore is better"
I overall agree that the reaction from some people has been crazy. I mean, just look at the pages where the reveal was going on. "Oh ghais 10.3 you were right Github I'm so sorry please make me eat shit". It's fucking ridiculous. Also yeah, the SSD space I find it crazy, now storage space is not indicated anymore as a whole but already subtracts the OS and shit? No lol
People need to stop getting ahead and think about GAMES. I'm curious how Sony will handle PS Now and first parties, the hardware they have can do exactly what SeX do but somewhat worst in some departments (higher clocks will do some things better), and that's it. It's fine, this is not what makes a console.
That said, I don't completely agree with the statements I marked in black.
Firstly, devs surely have time constraint, but I believe that generally they also have a BIT of consideration in making their game running as good as possible on all platforms. If this means making use of the Cell shit, that is too much. They actually did it later on, but it took a long while because it was a fucking strange CPU. There were devs declaring how much Cell was SHIT and a terrible idea, this is not happening with the SSD, the contrary actually. So, comparing the usage of Cell and the SSD I think is too much. It depends by the developers, sure, but maybe a lot of them will use the tech to close the gap SOMEWHAT, to free RAM and GPU a bit. Maybe not. But it's definetly not the Cell situation, also because according to Cerny the idea behind PS5 is to bring the learning curve under a month, while PS3 had the highest of all PlayStations. That means, I guess, that to use the SSD decently you will not need a big brain.
I also feel the urge to respond to the Gamepass thing, because I was one of the guys he said that is not that good in the long term.
Well, I just want to say: not everything is "damage control", sometimes is a true opinion. That's the case. I had this opinion far before any reveal of SeX, and I still have it. It will not magically change just because SeX is more powerful and now I don't want to look in damage control mode, so that's some honesty for ya actually.
And this is regarding all the "muh bias" that both Sony and MS fans spit everyday on devs that WORKS on that shit (and they fucking don't and likely ever will) or even DF: surprise, sometimes people disagree because they just fucking DON'T AGREE.
Now, last point: MS studios.
MS Studios are not sitting on their balls, that's a given. They are much probably working their ass off. Still, this doesn't give me ANY TRUST whatsoever in MS, because no matter how good the team is, bad management does it all. As well I don't have any trust in EA, Konami or Activision, they can buy all they want and pull billions out of their but, this doesn't mean fuck to me. Mind you, I don't want good games, no. I play since I'm 5 on PS1, trying do something on the first Tekken: there are far older players, but since than I played a lot, and one thing I'm sure is that I don't give a FOCK about good games anymore, I dumped Wolfenstein 2 despite being one of the best shooters out there because that is what I played since ten years ago, I'm tired. So for me MS do not only need to pull quality out, they betta take a load of inspiration and throw it at those games because otherwise my balls are gonna roll on the ground. And here is there I don't trust them, in a time where even decent games like the last Star Wars can't be polished enough for D1, it's already a lot that big teams can manage to get the bugs out of their games, let alone make great games.
So, I'm very happy MS is at least showing a far greater commitment, but it's not even nearly enough, everything can go wrong. I don't even like their platform managment, I will simply never buy an Xbox until they are like this, because I can just buy a PC, this is what they wants, they don't even consider Sony competion and in some sense they are right lol why should I care about Xbox if I didn't already own Xbox all my life and don't want to change? Because TFs? Get fucking real would you, there is no service and no games I can't fully appreciate already on PC, their idea is to make their console a simpler PC, that's not enough for me. On the other hand, maybe I'm wrong, but AS A CONSOLE I'm just more curious about PS, really: probably it will have less performance on third parties, but first parties will likely do some crazy shits that you will not see elsewhere at least for a while, that's interest me more from a console perspective, not resolution. No, I don't care about PS4 vs One, I never did console war, so I don't say that because now PS5 has less TFs. Let's see how Sony handles exclusives anyway.
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