Although the patent is official and there were indications that pointed to the next generation of Sony consoles, they are actually for this interactive robot.
The patent recently registered by Sony where SSD memory cartridges were shown are not intended for the company's future console, PlayStation 5, but for an interactive control system of the firm itself, Sony TOIO.
The information comes from the same source that echoed the registration of this patent, LetsGoDigital, which have found out the real origin of these data storage peripherals with which the hardware involved can read and write files. It will not be PS5, however, but this new version of the robot, a toy aimed at young Japanese to control, among others, remote control cars or robots with artificial intelligence thanks to its programmable nature.
By using these SSD cartridges, the reading will be very fast and the storage of the information much more efficient; especially when they will be interchangeable cartridges, which will allow different types of functions and configurations depending on the cartridge inserted in this Sony TOIO.
This version of Sony TOIO even has a video in circulation through YouTube; whose date dates to November 11, two days after the source echoed this – now yes – accurate information, where the Sony console that will arrive in stores in 2020 is removed from the equation.
From this point the rest is speculation. We know that PlayStation 5 will use an SSD storage unit, but we do not know if external cartridges will be used, as the patent asked. The Tower Five study considers that this type of storage will allow us to see on PS5 "much richer worlds"; In addition, your CPU will also facilitate drastically reducing load times. Mark Cerny, architect of the machine, has already announced that he will use an AMD Navi GPU and a Ryzen Zen 2 CPU.
PlayStation 5 will hit the market at Christmas 2020. We don't know its price, only that it will be an “attractive” price, according to Mark Cerny's criteria. The community of players has already placed their bets on that possible price.
