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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At the time the PS4/Xbox One generation launched, the cost of solid state drives was still too high to make them viable as the internal storage media of choice while still maintaining an attractive price point for the console. As such, the read/write performance limitations of hard drives remained for that generation of consoles. (For reference, it was only about a year or two before the Xbox One where consumer SSDs started reaching around the $1/gb price point)
The next generation was the first where developers could build their games around anticipating much greater drive performance.
Consumer PC hardware doesn’t move in such distinct generations, as many parts see more evolutionary changes as time progresses.
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