@pcps4xb: Going on raw speed as advertised, you would think the PS5 would have a significant advantage. What other time consuming processes are going on? Whatever they may be, they have made the data rate negligible, even versus an external SATA drive.

Microsoft has videos detailing loading time and quick resume, and what they are doing to speed up and optimize performance. Game site have had them for a month to report on. I haven't heard or seen much from Sony. Nor have I seen loading video for PS5-specific games. Just short video or gif or a guy loading MM.

@notjm: LOL, what?!? SSD speed has been touted by the Sony camp for months! Now it's irrelevant? 🤣 You all believed the Fantasyland-nonsense that the UE5 demo was only possible because of the P5 SSD.

Now they are hyping up the controller haptics.

@xgalacticax: Aesthetics are pretty low on the totem pole. PS5 grew on me over time, from negative to "whatever". Series X looks cool, not pretty, but cool. Got to stand it up, though. I have limited places to do that.

The load time test results are pretty funny, considering all the ballyhooing SONY and fans have done about the SSD speeds.

How the hell is not only the Series X internal SSD but an external SATA SSD outperforming the PS5 in loading games? Does decompression take that long on these consoles?

@Terminator95: Sony PS5 might outsell Series S|X. That's not a risky bet, as Sony has no shortage of blind followers worldwide, as well as deeper brand recognition of electronics. Microsoft squandered their 360 momentum with the launch of XB1, and Spencer had to right the ship.

Still it's not guaranteed. If Microsoft can keep the split much closer this time around, they'll be good with that. Neither has to sell more consoles to make more revenue, which is the entire point.

@Tobias81: The PS5 SSD is advertised (by SONY) as having a raw read speed of 5.5 GB/s. Microsoft reported the raw read speed of Series X at 2.4 GB/s - which admittedly sounds conservative for NVMe on PCIe4.0 standard. Then SONY started hyping up the effective speed to 4x 5.5 GB/s through compression and other veiled and esoteric techniques.

So how does Sony explain the PS5 loading games slower than the Series X? Not slightly faster, not about the same, but significantly slower?

We haven't seen the performance of an add-in SSD, either, because it is not supported at launch.

@returnofthebrotha: The 360 had better graphics hardware than PS3. As far as CPU people still claim the CELL was more powerful than even some current CPUs, yet it did not translate to the vast majority of games.

And with this news, PS5 much vaunted SSD is somehow performing slower than that of the Series X in the same games. What gives? That was the last (and only) bastion of a PS5 hardware edge. Lord knows the Unreal Engine 5 demo could only be done on a PS5...

@Thanatos2k: We are talking Microsoft vs. Sony -- head-to-head, damn near the same libraries, similar hardware specs.

We are not talking Wii, or Switch, or The Kardashian's mobile game. All very successful, all a different market and target demographic.

@lostn: Not yet.

I remember Rise Of Tomb Raider because it is the sole instance anybody had to use in argument about paid timed exclusives against Microsoft. Sony has committed many offenses in 2 decades, from Vice City right up today with Final Fantasy VII, FFXVI , and two games coming from Bethesda themselves. There's tons of examples against Sony in between.

@Thanatos2k: Exclusives in general help, though historically, it is 3rd party exclusives. The GTAs and the Metal Gears. Next third party sports games, then maybe 1st party exclusives. Halo was a big driver of XBox, but that is unusual. Still, the attach rate is not as high as you would think for each title in the series.