A few days ago, Sony formally revealed the full specification of its next-generation gaming console, the PS5. The official reveal was an online event led by Sony Interactive Entertainment Lead Architect Mark Cerny. But, it seems that many fans missed the essence of the Road to PS5 event, where the Japanese gaming giant made several bold promises.
PS5's Game Changing Feature
Most of the discussions centered on the custom Solid State Drive (SSD) of the PS5. The new feature receives praise from various game developers and is one of the major reasons why some of them think the PS5 is the most groundbreaking gaming console ever made. The solid-state drive of the PS5 is a game-changer, and Cerny claimed that it would dramatically reduce the install times.
To further prove his point, Cerny revealed that because of the PS5's solid-state drive, there is "no need to make brand new files with the changes incorporated into them." In other words, patch installs will be fast as compared to what gamers are experiencing with the current generation gaming consoles. Cerny added, "no installs as you know them today."
Interestingly, the P5 will also affect the patch sizes, and gamers could expect smaller patch sizes aside from faster patches download. This is possible because there will be lesser use of data replication. "The SSD will allow for such fast in-game streaming that developers won't need to fall back to classic data replication methods, which result in these huge installs you've been seeing," reports Comicbook.
Other Bold PS5 Claims
Sony Interactive Entertainment also revealed at the Road to PS5 that the performance of its next-generation gaming console would be groundbreaking. Cerny said that gamers would soon be able to play games that could have never been developed before. The PS5 features a 10.28 Teraflop CPU clocked at 2.234 GHz.
While it may appear like the PS5 offers lesser teraflops counts compared to its rival Xbox Series X, much of the game loading is because of fast memory or RAM. And, just like the next generation gaming console from Microsoft, the PS5 houses a 16 GB of GDDR6 memory.
As for its release window, Sony's boss Jim Ryan earlier announced that the PS5 would arrive sometime in the holiday of 2020. At the Road to PS5 event, Ryan said that "since we originally unveiled our next-generation console in April, we know that there's been a lot of excitement and interest in hearing more about what the future of games will bring. "Today, I'm proud to share that our next-generation console will be called PlayStation 5, and we'll be launching in time for Holiday 2020."
