First thing I did after buying a PS4 Pro late-cycle was replace the internal HDD with a (bog-standard, massive, cheap) SSD. Considering how fast my games tend to load, I honestly wonder how the PS5 benchmarks compared to my SSDified PS4 Pro.
A benchmark is going to be an order of magnitude faster, because it's not using SATA.
But more importantly the big goal of building in the SSD is so that games can be designed with no load times, which beats any loading time number you can hit.
The PS3 was well after the ship had sailed. That’s the whole point, it took them 3 generations to stop. The PS1 and 2 both required custom memory cards as well when the original Xbox was using a standard SATA drive.
You might be misremembering reality - yes, the original xbox shipped with a normal drive, but the X360 had a proprietary drive in a custom enclosure, but actually the most popular model didn't come with any drive at all - just a proprietary memory card. Then the Xbox One has a regular sata drive, but I wouldn't call it "user replaceable" - it's very hard to access and requires a complete disassembly of the console, while on PS3 and PS4 all you needed to do was remove one screw and the drive would come out. The same seems to be true on PS5 again.
dont__panic|5 years ago
Dylan16807|5 years ago
But more importantly the big goal of building in the SSD is so that games can be designed with no load times, which beats any loading time number you can hit.
Aissen|5 years ago
tw04|5 years ago
Oh how the turntables.
gambiting|5 years ago