SSDs in next-generation consoles are crucial to game development, says Epic Games, the creator of Unreal Engine 5. In particular, she notes the ultra-fast PlayStation 5 drive, under which even had to rewrite parts of the toolkit. However, these improvements benefit all platforms, as Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney later said.
Epic Games showed off Unreal Engine 5 on the PlayStation 5 in real-time last month. To achieve what we can see in the video, including the SSD console helped.
“The PlayStation 5 provides a huge leap in both computing and graphics performance, but its media architecture is also very special ,” said Nick Penwarden, vice president of engineering at Epic Games. – The ability to stream content at high speed allows developers to create a more dense and detailed environment, changing our ideas about streaming content. It’s so impressive that we rewrote our main subsystem of input-output for the Unreal Engine considering PlayStation 5 “ .
Recall that in the PlayStation 5 there will be an SSD with a capacity of 825 GB, with a speed of 5.5 GB / s. The Xbox Series X will also have an SSD, but at 1 TB and a speed of 2.4 GB / s. This may mean that the loading times on the following Sony and Microsoft consoles can vary greatly depending on how developers optimize the game.
Xbox X SeriesThe next-generation consoles will go on sale in the New Year period of 2020. However, Sony recently removed this mention from the official PlayStation website, which made fans nervous. So far, the company has not given any comments on this matter. But, according to a Digitimes source, AMD will begin shipping chipsets for the console next week.
