[dangus]

Or a PC game can just slap a minimum RAM requirement on and be done with it.

I’m impressed with the tech but it seems like the end goal was to keep console manufacturing costs down. Now it’s being sold as a gameplay-enabling feature and reason to upgrade. The upgrade only looks impressive because the PS4 by now is so old.

Relying on cheap SSD storage instead of expensive RAM, and relieving CPU effort via the storage streaming chip is a cool trick. But that tech alone enables absolutely zero gameplay experiences.

It hasn’t been proven to us whether or not a typical gaming PC’s increased memory just overcomes the need for this tech. If I have a PC with 32GB of RAM and my GPU has 8GB of its own RAM I’m not convinced that a PS5 with 16GB of shared RAM will do anything that the PC setup can’t.

Desktop computers eclipsed the performance of current consoles gen consoles so long ago that I am still suspect: my prediction is that a decent mid-range gaming computer is completely capable of playing any PS5 game.

[fullito]

Both worlds win here:

Finally the gamer gets low/no loading which is nice to have.

But also it becomes much easier for Game Developers.

I'm still looking forward to it, after all, it is an huge improvement to current gen, independently of how long it took and how old the ps4 is.

And i'm not 100% sure if this doesn't affect PC Gaming. After all Direct Storage will hopefully fix small SSD Issues you also have on PC right now.