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PS5 Won’t Have Long Game-Install Times Like PS4

One of the most annoying aspects of updating games on PS4 right now is the excruciatingly long time it takes for the patch files to copy over to your game install. Sony knows that, and it's why it will be a thing of the past with the PlayStation 5.Touched on by lead system architect Mark Cerny during Sony's Road to PS5 stream (which revealed the system's full specs), the problem hinges on the speed of the hard drive. The PS5 is going to utilize a custom SSD that will feature

PS5 Won’t Have Long Install Times Like PS4

One of the most annoying aspects of patching games on PS4 right now is the excruciatingly long time it takes for the files to copy over to your game install. Sony knows that, and it's why it will be a thing of the past with the PlayStation 5.Touched on by lead system architect Mark Cerny during Sony's Road to PS5 stream (which revealed the system's full specs), the problem hinges on the speed of the hard drive. The PS5 is going to utilize a custom SSD that will feature transfer

PS5 Specs Revealed: CPU, GPU, SSD, TFLOPs Details And More

As part of Sony's big PlayStation 5 information blowout during a GDC livestream, the company officially announced the specs for the next-generation console. In short, it's a very powerful machine.PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny is discussing the PS5 hardware as we speak, but during the stream, Digital Foundry published a feature revealing the system's specs. Its CPU features 8 Zen 2 cores, and its GPU--using custom RDNA 2 architecture--offers 10.28 TFLOPs of power. It comes with 16 GB of memory and an 825 GB SSD, and it allows for storage

PS5 Specs Revealed

As part of Sony's big PlayStation 5 information blowout during a GDC livestream, the company officially announced the specs for the next-generation console. In short, it's a very powerful machine.PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny is discussing the PS5 hardware as we speak, but during the stream, Digital Foundry published a feature revealing the system's specs. Its CPU features 8 Zen 2 cores, and its GPU--using custom RDNA 2 architecture--offers 10.28 TFLOPs of power. It comes with 16 GB of memory and an 825 GB SSD, and it allows for storage

PS5 Specs: Sony Reveals CPU, GPU, SSD, TFLOPs Details And More

As part of Sony's big PlayStation 5 information blowout during a GDC livestream, the company officially announced the specs for the next-generation console. In short, it's a very powerful machine that supports backwards compatibility, although just how it stacks up with Xbox Series X remains to be seen.PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny is discussing the PS5 hardware as we speak, but during the stream, Digital Foundry published a feature revealing the system's specs. Its CPU features 8 Zen 2 cores, and its GPU--using custom RDNA 2 architecture--offers 10.28 TFLOPs of

Knee-Deep in the Ports: Ranking the Best (and Worst) Versions of Doom

As of 2008, Tetris holds the achievement of the most ported video game in history. Which makes sense. Virtually any electronic device can run Tetris. That's the beauty of its design: difficult to master, but arguably the most accessible controls and objectives ever.  Doom, however, is hot on Tetris's heels. You can play Doom on virtually any personal computing operating system, most consoles, and lots of handhelds. You can even run the game on a piano. Can you play Tetris on a piano? That's what I thought. (Though you'll probably

PS5 specs to be revealed by Mark Cerny tomorrow

It would appear we're finally going to get the deep dive into the PlayStation 5 we've been waiting for. Sony's Mark Cerny will be presenting the PS5 and its specs tomorrow. Compared to the Xbox Series X, the PlayStation 5 has been a bit of an enigma. We know the device exists, that it will supposedly be every bit as capable as the XSX, and that it will feature things like haptic feedback controllers and raytracing technology, but Sony has hardly been as forthcoming with details. That seems to be

Xbox Series X: You Need To Know So Far In Under 4 Minutes

Microsoft dropped a ton of new Xbox Series X details onto Xbox Wire, teaching us more about what the next-generation console can do. We already knew about Quick Resume, which allows you to suspend three Series X games simultaneously and seamlessly jump between them, but a new video showed the feature in action.Along with the video came a list of specs, detailing the console's architecture and storage solutions. One surprising detail was the announcement of proprietary cards for stage expansion. Microsoft partnered with Seagate to develop 1TB external drives that