Ed Boon maintains an optimistic position with the advancement of solid state memories; an advance greater than the graphical jump of the GPUs.
Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat and creative director at NetherRealm Studios, is confident that the SSD memories that will incorporate both PS5 and Xbox Series X will be a giant leap forward compared to the current generation; greater than the obvious step forward in graphic aspects, as the first technical demonstration of the Unreal Engine 5 motorcycle by Epic Games has already hinted.
In a meeting with Geoff Keighley within the talk show promoted through Summer Game Fest, the developer has praised the speed that the SSD memories of both consoles will reach. "It's funny when the new consoles come out and everything says: 'OK, but what are their graphics like?' I think people are underestimating the impact that the practical cancellation of load times will have ”, he begins by saying.
“This is going to open up possibilities previously considered impossible; I think we have barely touched the surface of what we can do with these machines, "he adds, in relation to the consoles that Sony and Microsoft are preparing for the end of 2020." Okay, the graphics are going to look better, but the new memory and load times and that kind of thing… it's going to be tremendous. ”
Paradigm shift: not just a goodbye to load times
Not all the sector thinks the same. If Tequila Works was already optimistic in a meeting with FreeGameTips precisely with the SSD memories, the director of Ebb Software remains, however, with the graphics. In any case, both companies have decided to bet fully on this type of storage, much faster than the traditional hard drives of the current generation.
100 times faster bandwidth with custom PS5 architecture
Sony, especially, will provide PlayStation 5 with a higher speed: What can be considered as the jewel in the crown of the console will have 825 GB, less than the Xbox solution, but with a speed it will be much higher: 5.5 GB per second. The current bandwidth of a PS4 is 50-100 MB per second, we are talking about a huge difference; around 100 times higher. Xbox Series X, meanwhile, will have a larger storage SSD, 1 TB, but the speed will be less, 2.4 GB.
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will hit the market in late 2020 at a price yet to be determined and with a catalog of games still unknown.
Source | Summer Game Fest (Interview with Ed Boon: minute 27:30)
