author: Krooox
Sony: No More Loading Screens - PS5 Bets on SSD
It looks like Sony is already revealing what will be the most important point in its upcoming marketing campaign for PlayStation 5. This is indicated by another statement about SSD and loading screens.
In mid-April, we learned that PlayStation 5 will feature ultra-fast, which means faster than those currently available on the market, SSDs. Journalists of Official PlayStation Magazine (after Wccftech) managed to obtain one more official statement on the subject from a representative of Sony:
An ultra-high-speed SSD is the key to our next generation. Our vision is to make loading screens a thing of the past, enabling creators to build new and unique gameplay experiences.
The announcement does indeed seem attractive and we can be sure that the lack of loading screens will be one of the most important marketing points of the new Sony console, especially for casual players.
Looking a bit more realistic, it is worth noting that the announcement of SSD in the new consoles is hardly surprising - for PC gamers this has been the norm for several years now, and many PS4 users have already decided to "upgrade" their system. The declaration that drives in PS5 will be faster than those currently in use is not surprising, either, as we are talking about devices that will be available on the market in a dozen or so months.
However, the announcement is good news for the entire gaming community - quick access to the content of the disk will not only allow us to get rid of loading screens (or at least drastically reduce their length), but above all it will open to developers, especially those who work on open worlds, incomparably greater opportunities - which were bottlenecked by "reading" capabilities of HDDs.
Finally, let's recall that in April, Mark Cerny, the main architect of the current and future generation of Sony consoles, also revealed that the "brain" of the new console will be an 8-core Zen 2 processor from AMD with Navi graphics card. This specification is to cope with ray tracing and 8K gameplay.
These innovations have, of course, triggered an avalanche of speculation. The most important of them concern the release date of the new console - it is already practically decided that the hypothetical PlayStation 5 (the official name has not yet been confirmed) can be expected only around the Christmas season of 2020.