By: Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com), April 17, 2019 1:18 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
sleep (sleep.delete@this.sogetthis.com) on April 16, 2019 11:04 pm wrote:
> I'm surprised at how hard they are selling faster storage. Are they actually planning on putting
> a fast, high-capacity SSD in every console? Wouldn't that money be better spent on GPU power or
> more/faster memory? Maybe someone who actually knows anything about games could chime in.
They needed to move beyond spinning rust at some point. Game assets are getting bigger and bigger, and the throughput from a HDD just can't load them into memory fast enough. Not much point running at 25% higher framerate if it takes 5 minutes just to load the game- nobody wants to go back to the old days of loading ZX Spectrum games from cassette.
> I'm surprised at how hard they are selling faster storage. Are they actually planning on putting
> a fast, high-capacity SSD in every console? Wouldn't that money be better spent on GPU power or
> more/faster memory? Maybe someone who actually knows anything about games could chime in.
They needed to move beyond spinning rust at some point. Game assets are getting bigger and bigger, and the throughput from a HDD just can't load them into memory fast enough. Not much point running at 25% higher framerate if it takes 5 minutes just to load the game- nobody wants to go back to the old days of loading ZX Spectrum games from cassette.