Microsoft Executive Says Xbox Series X Devs Will Learn to Address PS5 SSD Loading Screen Advantage
Bill Stillwell, Program Manager at Microsoft who is currently on the Hololens project (was working on Xbox prior) recently took part in a live
Iron Lords Podcast where he opened up a bit about the loading screens concerning the PS5 SSD.
Bill Stillwell: I'll say two things with that. One, I understand that its a marketing point and I think I said in the last Podcast we did, I'm really impressed in the archeticture they did with their drive and they'll be able to do really cool stuff with it. I also don't think it's as impressive over what you'll be able to do what the Series X has done and so I have high confident in that team. I will also say, look I reserve the right to wake up smarter tomorrow and someone may prove me wrong and we'll learn.The one thing I have learned is I'v never underestimated game developers to take advantage of something and work around it, but that works on both sides. And so the ability of a game developer to look and say "okay I'm building this game and I want to have seamless transition with no loading screens on PlayStation, but I'm also gonna want to sell on an Xbox, what am I going to do to manage that kind of thing?" Like that will be the trick and the techniques, and so maybe, I'm just making this up, but maybe there are elevators in the Xbox version and not the Sony version. I don't know how they're gonna address it, but they will learn to address it and they will figure out ways to work around it, and that's where you'll get these economies of these statement of absolute versus what we can actually do when these games releases
He goes on to state that by no means he speaks for the company, though he believes that first-party games will take advantage of next-gen features, with the majority of platforms being designed for multiplatform in mind.
The Xbox Series X one major disadvantage against the PS5 is Sony's SSD solution. According to a Micosoft exec, the Xbox Series X will learn to address it.
mp1st.com
This doesn't make any sense. Maybe it also shows why he is not at xbox anymore. lol That's not at all how games development work.
Developers can not and will not for multiplatform games, build their games around a single SSD. This is not how it works at all.
I mean, think about it, if the developers would built their multiplatform games around the PS5 SSD, they would have to basically create two version of a game.
One Version for PS5 and one version for XSX and PCs with SSD.
Would this - from economic point of view- feasible?
I think not, we are not going to see anything like this. I think what we will see is the following:
Developers will build their games around the PC SSD and use as the lowest common denominator and then XSX and PS5 will benefit from shorter loading times compared to PC, but other than that, it won't be different to PC.
It simply isn't feasible at all, developing games is already super expensive and developing a game version for PS5 and one for XSX/PC would make it even more expensive.
Of course, this doesn't apply to CPU and GPU.
With CPU and GPU it's very easy to scale up and down, we have seen this in current gen and on PC, where we have different modes and settings, e.g. lower or higher FPS/Resolution. This is super easy and doesn't take any resources from the developers, the developer doesn't have to create different versions of a game.
One notable move is Microsoft's unannounced June Xbox event. The company was aiming to show off the long-rumored, more-affordable Xbox Lockhart around June 9. But it pushed those plans all the way to August — at least for now. Microsoft doesn't want to go before Sony's Thursday event.
Now that the PS5 game reveal livestream has a new date, however, things could change at Microsoft once again.
Sony is going to reveal next-gen PlayStation 5 games at an event on June 11 at 1 p.m. Pacific time. This comes after Sony postponed from June 4.
venturebeat.com
What are you talking about? Where did you get this 9th of June date? Was this ever announced by MS? Otherwise it's just FUD.