<story><title>Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps5-new-era-of-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ardit33</author><text>I hate to say it but this SSD story has been plastered all over the news by the PR machine, mainly because the new consoles have no other inovations whatsoever....&lt;p&gt;No, it is not going to usher a new area of gaming, just make game have less &amp;#x27;loading&amp;#x27; screens, and perhaps larger open worlds....  but it is no near the innovation and changes we experiences in the 90s and early 2000&amp;#x27;s....&lt;p&gt;Let me say in a more popular language:  History has demonstrated that gamers don&amp;#x27;t give a f@ck on how fast is the SSD....    
PS1 won over N64 even though it had huge loading times, compared to near instantaneous N64&amp;#x27;s loading screens....&lt;p&gt;I meant, personally, i think it is great, as PS4 loading time are bad, but just fast loading time it is not going to make me buy a game.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, just a sad PR piece trying to get people exited for something that looks a small (but good) evolutionary improvement over the current PS4 Pro&amp;#x2F;Xbox X.&lt;p&gt;Now if we had custom fast&amp;#x2F;ray-casting technology, than it would have been  exiting.  But it looks like if enabled, a game will either have to drop resolutions and cap frame-rates to barely playable 30fps.&lt;p&gt;But, hey your SSD will be fast.....</text></comment>
<story><title>Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a New Era of Gaming</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps5-new-era-of-gaming/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GiorgioG</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s about time.  SSDs have been around a very long time, and without a supported way of swapping out the internal hard drive, console gamers are penalized with long waits vs PCs where SSDs have become fairly standard.</text></comment>