Eli5 why ssd on consoles is so revolutionary?

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I was wondering, games for the current consoles are being presented as being able to create a whole new experience of gaming because of ssd, but ssd has been on pcs for a long time and there was no such a thing as new way to experience games besides short screen loading times. While on consoles, ratchet and clank introduce new dimensions, ff XVI shows different phases of combat and more, and other games also show all kind of new experiences because of the ssd

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SSDs are an order of magnitude faster than a hard drive, and hard drives Re an order of magnitude faster than a CD/DVD drive.

The problem is that console games don’t let you easily make that comparison. They really do load dozens of times faster off an SSD than they did off a disk.

But rather than making games the same way, they account for that improved capacity, and make games that take dozens of times longer to load. Higher resolution, poorer optimization.

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