Not right now, not directly but they are going that way.

I pay 8 quid per month to access 100+ games on Game Pass.

I dont have instant access but all but the biggest games I can get in under an hour.

Your internet is crap, I know, it is a forum meme but the reality is internet speeds are improving massively.

Anyhoo, I'm tired and pissed and don't want to appear antagonistic about any of this nonsense, so I'm off to bed. Perhaps I'll pick this discussion up tomorrow and elaborate my position when I've sobered up.

night all

g.man

I can see the utility in that. You've already paid for access, so no need to download everything if you don't want it.

Sony PlayStation 5 jump cuts to SSD for faster gaming

By Chris Mellor - April 16, 2019

Sony’s next-generation PlayStation gaming console will use a solid-state drive for faster game loading and play.

The current PlayStation 4 has a hard disk drive but struggles a little with today’s bigger, more complex, higher res games – for instance Red Dead Redemption 2 is 99GB. This affects loading time and the speed of play – often there are notable waits as game characters jump from one gamespace to another.

In a Wired interview Sony lead system architect Mark Cerny said the next PlayStation – PS5 presumably – will have an 8-core AMD Ryzen CPU, a custom Radeon Navi GPU supporting ray tracing and 8K graphics, a custom 3D Audio chip, and a server-class SSD.

A demo has a so-called interstitial jump in SpiderMan that takes 15 seconds on a PS4 and 0.8 seconds on the PS5 demo system. This suggests an NVMe SSD is used.

https://blocksandfiles.com/2019/04/16/sony-next-gen-playstation-using-ssd-for-flash-based-gaming/

Literally yesterday's news.

Cerny (Chief Architect) was saying it would a server class SSD so probably a custom NVMe SSD. 19 times faster than home PC SSD's will mean its quick. RTX graphics card and 8k gaming will ensure a level of future proofing. Nice that Sony are not going streaming only and having backwards compatiblity with the PS4.

Did anyone hear Cerny got interviewed by Wired?

19x speed innit

And you can play it streamed to Nintendo Switch 2

HOLISTIC POULTICE

RedDave2 wrote:

Microsoft will follow through on the less is more approach to first party titles of xbox one and only release one game - sea of gears of halo: horizon.

Basically a halo game where you can race warthogs around Britain, swearing  a lot and going "aaaarrrr!"

FNF. “Aaaarrrrs” optional.

It is a legit point that Sony have been doing all this stuff for a while. The demand just hasn’t been there for it to properly break out. Times change and maybe MS have got a winning strategy now.

Personally I still think it makes more sense in the boardroom than the bedrooms, living rooms and parents basements of their customers. MS don’t want their whole games division to hinge on getting one single hardware box right, especially given how badly that affected them last time. That doesn’t mean everyone wants to start playing Halo on the bus.

It’s worth noting that we have talked about streaming far more than Microsoft have. I wouldn’t assume that it’s going to be the central plank of their next gen strategy yet. In fact, I doubt it will be.

I think it will be a much bigger thing by then (and on Switch. Probably), but I think it will still be supplemental to the current model (which will likely have expanded to treat W10 and Xbox users as the same) rather than a replacement.

Yossarian wrote:

I think it will be a much bigger thing by then (and on Switch. Probably), but I think it will still be supplemental to the current model (which will likely have expanded to treat W10 and Xbox users as the same) rather than a replacement.

They have it set up already with the Microsoft account. You can track purchases, see what devices are linked, see what subs are in play. I'd imagine xbox will be like an office sub with you deciding which machines it's on etc. Obvious benefit of owning xbox hardware or windows 10 is that it would be baked in as such.

acemuzzy wrote:

Do the two strands conflict? Feels like they might, so they need to get that right...

Mayber? They feel fairly complementary to me. At least for the time being.

digi wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

RedDave2 wrote:

I wonder will that model allows games to be more modular? I don't mean episodic although that's similar but more a case of you got to gamepass and you pickn the parts you want to download. Like fifa but no interest in online or ultimate team? No problem. Want multiplayer halo but not the story? Fine, don't download all the unnecessary stuff.

Microsoft did this with Crackdown 3, SP and MP were separate downloads.

Uncharted games and the last of us was doing this last gen and this one. Ms playing catch up again?

Bungie split halo 2 into 2 games.