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PS5: The importance and impact of the PlayStation 5’s SSD

By Charles Osborne Jr.

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 13: Game enthusiasts and industry personnel walk past the 'Sony Playstation' exhibit during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 13: Game enthusiasts and industry personnel walk past the 'Sony Playstation' exhibit during the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 13, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /
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The PlayStation 5’s biggest selling point so far is arguably its new SSD hard drive feature. Whether you came here searching for why that might be or you have no idea what an SSD is, just sit back, relax and continue to read the rest of this article for further insight.

“Once every 5 or 6 or 7 years, a console arrives with substantially new capabilities”. This is a quote from acclaimed video game developer and architect Mike Cerny during an in-depth PS5 presentation. For decades now, this quote always seems to ring true.

For Sony’s PlayStation 5, one of those new capabilities appears to be an all-new SSD hard drive system. A SSD or solid-state drive is something that essentially makes life easier for both game developers and gamers alike.

To put it simply, an SSD is used just like a traditional hard disk drive. However, the key differences are their cost, lifespan, and speed.

According to Cerny himself, “the primary reason for an ultra-fast SSD is that it gives the game designer freedom.” In the aforementioned presentation, he went on to state that “with a hard drive, the 20 seconds that it takes to load a gigabyte can sabotage the game that a developer is trying to make.”

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More importantly, for gamers like you and me, the SSD feature means better storage, quicker load times, improved gameplay and an all-around better video game playing experience.

To back these claims up, we circle back to the presentation previously mentioned in this article. Cerny stated, “As a player, you wait for the game to boot, wait for the game to load, wait for the level to reload every time you die, and you wait for what is euphemistically called fast travel. All of that leads to the dream. What if we could not have just an SSD, but a blindingly fast SSD?”

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the PS5 is still scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of 2020. Here’s to hoping it’s a huge success.

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