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To be honest, these outlets repeated what the devs told them without questionning the claims. Thatâs their only fault as they 100% should have questionned them.
It was suspicious from the get go as some who had the knowledge have said that this supposedly superior SSD was BS. And we saw after launch when studying the game that dimensions are loaded at the same time as the level itself, it was just hidden to the player but could be called at any time so the jumping between dimensions was almost instant. So we knew it was just a matter of loading assets and not speed of the SSD.
I still want to see the difference though with some mid to low end PC, if thereâs any, and at what point the RAM or speed of data transfer can impact gameplay.
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At the end of the day itâs just marketing. PS5 SSD is Sega Blast Processing.
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Ratchet and Clank on a regular hard drive? Ha! Yeah right. Next youâll be claiming that the mighty Godfall would run on last gen consoles.
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Facts indeed, and in fact there was a studio head that claimed the âexclusive technologyâ being used is little more than what they were doing on PS3/360 and was effectively a well-hidden load screen.
I brought this up here in fact in our Digital Foundry OT and certain vocal individuals in that thread tried to claim to have more information than the founder of Travellerâs Tales or individuals who actually write code for a living (not 1:1 of course, but having to learn to optimize for 1000s of devices is still in the same ballpark).
All I know is: if the PC version doesnât even require a HDD, then there are some folks on here that owe the rest of us an apology 
To a greater point, thereâs a discussion to be had here about journalists in the industry and the inherent lack of knowledge thatâs actually required, and so are often more than mouthpieces (in some cases, selectively so), especially in regards to the stories around technology/development. By having at least a semblance of knowledge around development, it leads to journalists being able to question PR speech and call out those that might disinform consumers⌠the same as we see in most other industries (political journalists sure as hell know a lot more about policy and how to position themselves to politicians a hell of a lot better than the majority of gamesâ media).
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LOL that SSD crap Sony said from the very beginning was bullshit. Only people with no knowledge of how computer works would believe that crap in the first place.
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Didnât the ff16 director use the same ssd talking point on why itâs exclusive 
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If not for those fuckers at the CMA we could have had Diablo 4 on Game Pass next week, not to mention a shitload of CoD games.
Meh!
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Sheesh, I had forgotten about this ad.
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Max Payne 4 for me.
Yeah. Square was saying the same BS talking points that Sony was doing. Only possible on PS5 SSD LOL.
Ohh man, donât remind me. Them fuckers screw us gamers.
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Some are guessing that Fable will be shown. 
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i remember Forspoken devs had similar claims
lol
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Youâre not getting me. Will maintain hype.
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This thing requires a ps5 to be turned on.
Yes. Using handheld devices to stream from a Playstation or Xbox isnât anything new. I think it would be safe to wager though that most people arenât interested in doing that, hence why I think it will be pointless for most users. But, itâs a peripheral targeted at a specific group, not a device meant to challenge the Switch or Steamdeck. At least, I hope thatâs not their intention, because that would be incredibly foolish and a waste of time, money and engineers. 
