Wired sees Mark Cerny discuss his role in creating the PlayStation 5 system and the challenges included.Mark Cerny is a developer who worked on games like Crash Bandicoot and Marvel’s Spider-Man.
He was the lead systems architect for creating the PS5 and, in the video, discusses how the console came to be (thanks, VGC).“We’d been getting requests for an SSD all the way back to PlayStation 4,” Cerny said. “In particular, Tim Sweeney, who is the visionary founder of Epic Games, he said ‘hard drives were holding the industry back.'”“On PlayStation 4, fast travel can get anything, depending on the game, from 15 seconds to a minute,” Cerny continued. “On PlayStation 5, much faster, anything from a fraction of a second to a few seconds.
Read more on nme.com