PS5: What The Reveal CONFIRMS About Next-Gen Gaming
7. A Focus On Speed
One of the things that is extremely apparent in the PS5 information is that speed will be a big focus from PlayStation.
Loading times are mentioned as a specific focus for the next PlayStation, which is said to include an SSD. You don't necessarily need to know what that means, just know that it's going to speed things up considerably.
Once again, Marvel's Spider-Man is used as an example running on the new hardware, and the load times are cut down from 15 seconds to a jaw-dropping 0.8. That's not even one second to fast travel around the entire map.
This is an incredible achievement for the next PlayStation, and could really revolutionize how games are played. It also ties into the backwards compatibility feature, as this is improving Marvel's Spider-Man quite a lot.
Whether or not this is going to be a focus for both of the next-generation competitors is unclear, but for now it is certainly going to be a selling point for many gamers.