It could mean the end of narrow corridors, annoying door animations and long lift rides currently utilised to hide loading screens in open world games, and it means games can be much grander in scale too. It’s limited to improved loading speeds for now, but the real benefits of the SSD will be in how future games fully utilise the faster read/write speeds. That’s a noticeable difference from the one-to-two-minute loading screens I was used to seeing at the end of the PS4/Xbox One generation, and the best part is that even unsupported PS4 games will benefit from the improved loading screens. You can boot from a cold start and be playing Spider Man: Miles Morales within around 45 seconds, and you can be playing the latest Assassin’s Creed title within 25 seconds of opening the app. That all sounds like a bit of a headache, but the payoff is certainly worth it: the loading times on the console are non-existent. The only silver lining is that PS4 games stored on an external SSD will benefit from the same loading times as if they were stored directly on the console. That’ll be fine for some, but as time goes on and more PS5 games become available, it’ll become more of an inconvenience. That’s a stark difference from the Xbox Series X, which lets you at least store unused Series X on external storage. You’ve got the option of hooking up an external SSD or HDD, but there’s a catch – you can only store and run PS4 games on external storage. There is a second NVMe SSD slot hidden beneath the faceplate of the PS5 that’s ready to use – the problem is that SSDs capable enough of delivering the high SSD read-write speeds required to power the PS5 experience are very expensive. It’s going to be an exciting few years for console gamers, that’s for sure. You wouldn’t have expected a visual masterpiece like Red Dead Redemption 2 running on the PS4 judging by the quality of games at its launch back in 2013, and it’s likely we’ll look back on launch titles in a few times and see they only scratched the surface of what’s possible. Much like with the PS4, as time goes on, developers will learn to fully utilise the hardware on offer. The most exciting part is that these games aren’t designed around the PS5 specs – they were designed for the PS4 and have been enhanced by next-gen performance. Even games designed for the PS5, like the Demons Souls remake, sometimes struggles to maintain a consistent with advanced fire physics causing a slow-down for some players. Take Spider-Man: Miles Morales for example you can choose to either run the game at 4K with high-end visuals enabled or run it at 1080p with advanced effects disabled to hit the 60fps target. The performance isn’t always flawless though, and like with the PS4 Pro, some games will make you choose between frame rate and resolution. Those coming from both the standard PS4 and PS4 Pro will be wowed by what’s on offer here, not only in terms of the increased resolution but HDR support, more particle effects, higher resolution textures and ray-tracing support that makes games look truly next-level. ![]() The good news is that solid 60fps performance is achievable on most launch games – I’ve had a mostly smooth experience on graphically demanding games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, with the latter actually offering 120fps on capable TVs. For most, it’ll be the appeal of being able to play games at a constant or, if you’ve got a HDMI 2.1-compatible TV, My TV caps out at and I’ve not yet had the chance to experience 120fps, so that’s what I’ll focus on here. Though 8K gaming sounds exciting, it’s not the focus of the PS5 – not yet, anyway. Throw 16GB of GDDR6 and the PS5’s super-fast NVMe SSD and you’ve got a hugely powerful next-gen machine more than capable of providing a high-end gaming experience. ![]() That’s paired with an octa-core AMD Zen2-based CPU with a 3.5GHz clock speed. Inside the PS5 you’ll find a custom AMD RDNA 2 GPU capable of rendering 4K gameplay at 120 frames per second and even in the future according to Sony – though there’s no 8K support just yet.
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