Did MS and Sony over estimate their SSD requirements for this gen?

[Xplainin]

@Swanlee

But Sony decided to either not wait or nix on some really good hardware based RDNA 2.0 GPU features that will pay off more this gen then their over engineered SSD solution.

They spent to much of their hardware budget on SSD speeds that won’t be needed this gen at the sacrifice of more advanced GPU power and hardware GPU features that will be used and come in very handy later in the gen.

I’m not saying Sony’s console is better just because of their SSD. I think the XSX is a more complete and stronger console. I think as the gen goes on and things such as SFS, Mesh Shaders and maybe ML get exploited I think the gap will increase. I was comparing only the SSD set up where Sony went with pure SSD speed, while MS went both speed and software extensions to improve the efficiency of their set up. I think MS did a great job. My point was that in general a hardware solution is preferred over a software one. That doesn’t mean that the PS5 SSD will do things this gen that the XSXS won’t. I think neither will really get out of first gear.

[CallMeCraig]

@Xplainin

My point was that in general a hardware solution is preferred over a software one.

That point is a oversimplification and often not correct. Remember when 3D graphic cards went back from fully programmable shaders to a fixed function hardware solution? Me neither.