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7. SSD Is The "Key To The Next-Generation"

While these previous features are no doubt going to massively improve graphics and performance across the board, the "key to the next-generation", as Cerny put it, will be the console's internal SSD, or solid-state drive. Currently, the PS4 offers external SSD support, but the switch to this new tech will open up a whole world for developers to explore, as it radically changes what they can and can't squeeze into a game world.

In general, this feature effectively allows the information from the hard drive to be read and displayed faster, which actually improves performance massively. As an example, Cerny had Insomniac's Spider-Man running on a regular PS4 and a PS5 dev-kit, and showed that with the new drive, what was once a 15-second fast-travel load became be a mere 0.8-second one.

Using the same game again, he pointed out that Spidey's swing speed - and the speed of the camera - was entirely dependent on how quickly the hard-drive could read the information. With this limitation lifted, the speed in which Spidey could move around the world was increased massively - and it didn't damage graphical fidelity either, with the surrounding areas still being rendered at a high quality.