Boy, when I saw this live stream, it looked like some kind of school lecture with the presentation shown on the screen as if the live stream took place in the Lecture Theater room in whatever tertiary school like polytechnic, university, you name it. The details about the Playstation 5 from the presentation were too technical but I was still able to understand stuffs like the PCIe, SSDs, RDNR2, AMD Zen 2 CPU, 3D audio, etc. Some parts of the system specs are a bit lower in value when compared to the hardware specs of Xbox Series X so it looks like the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the Playstation 5. Before the hardware specs reveal began, the presenter eventually talked about how Sony had three principles when it comes to Playstation 4 and Playstation 5. Remember, the whole presentation was suited for developers although it was originally planned to be a GDC presentation. Speaking of GDC, large events were already cancelled and game and tech companies were already planning for online alternatives due to the on-going virus outbreak. Even worse is that there may or may not be product delays because of that. Not to mention that most of the public places were already closed in the western regions. However, there's still hope when it comes to obtaining new games like digital-copies for instance.
Why would they organize the live stream that was suited for developers in the first place? Well, it cannot be helped that the GDC was cancelled and most of the professional game developers are already working from home although not all countries are in Lock-Down mode as we speak and new cases are coming in daily. For gamers, the presentation might seem boring to them that they would wind up falling asleep or some sort and they expected the actual hardware and gameplay reveal instead of all the technical stuffs.
Like Xbox Series X, Playstation 5 will have the optical-disc drive for physical copies of games with the SSDs to have lesser load times and things should look instantaneous. Games that are not AAA-level will be too obvious that they load quite quickly but for patches, it's said to be something like incremental patching or something thanks to SSDs like there's no seeking whatsoever. Unfortunately, the selected Playstation 4 games will be backwards compatible with Playstation 5 and it may disappoint those who expected full backwards compatibility when compared to what Xbox Series X has.
Even with 850GB/1TB of SSD, certain AAA-games are going to take a WHOLE LOT of GBs like around tens to even hundreds of GBs so it looks like you can fit a few AAA-games on that storage. Also, we still have yet to see what the actual hardware of Playstation 5 is like as well as the gameplay of PS5 games in action via a trailer or some sort in the future.
