The co-game director of The Last of Us Part Two called the PS5's specs the "biggest leap" of his career. Sony officially confirmed the PS5's specs in a video yesterday, revealing how many teraflops the console has and how fast its SSD is.
On Twitter, Kurt Margenau, the co-game director of The Last of Us Part Two, revealed how excited he is about the PS5 SSD. "People don’t even know how big of a leap in terms of game design can be made, especially for 1st party that doesn’t have to design to the lowest common denominator," said Margenau, who also called the console's SSD the biggest leap of his career.
Margenau isn't the only game developer to have responded so positively to the PS5's specs. Before the console's specs were revealed, Billy Khan, the lead engine programmer at DOOM Eternal developer id Software, tweeted that the PS5 is "awesome." In the reveal video, Mark Cerny said that the PS3 was difficult to develop games for and it seems that Sony is trying to give developers what they want with the PS5.
Developers are likely happy about the PS5 and its SSD because of how it could change the way that they develop games. The faster SSD will make PS5 games look much better compared to the PS4. Sony may not have shown fans what the PS5's SSD will be able to do, but developers have confirmed that this is huge.
The PS5 SSD will also help games to load much faster. Gamers have criticized developers before for releasing games with long loading screens that take minutes to let them play but the PS5 will be aiming to change that. Sony has said that the PS5 could get rid of loading screens and the console will be able to run bigger, better-looking games that players can start playing quickly.
The PS5 reveal didn't make all fans happy as it didn't confirm the PS5's price, or its release date. Sony also didn't use the video to confirm any more PS5 games, which was hugely disappointing for some fans. However, if the console's specs can offer such big growth to game development and developers really want to make games for the console, all of the boring technical information may give fans a reason to smile.
The PS5 is planned for release in holiday 2020.