Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com) on April 17, 2019 1:18 am wrote:
> 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 think anon is correct.

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https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026496/-Marvel-s-Spider-Man