Now would be an interesting time to begin working at PlayStation. As the focus shifts from PS4 to PS5, we imagine there must be a great deal of excitement among all the teams at SIE. Handily, there are currently plenty of jobs going across all kinds of sectors, and we'd wager most of them are turning their attention to the next-gen machine.
In fact, several job listings talk about helping to make PS5 a success. While many of the job specs make a passing mention, one goes slightly further. The description for Senior Cloud Engineering Manager states the right candidate will "be one of the leaders of an elite team that is super excited to launch the upcoming world’s fastest console (PS5) in 2020".
"World's fastest console" is an interesting phrase. We would guess this is in reference to PS5's tech such as the custom SSD, enabling dramatically faster loading among other things. We know the next-gen console is going to be pretty powerful too, but perhaps its speed is more impressive than its sheer grunt.
It's just a job listing, but we wonder if this is the line Sony will be using as we start hearing more next year. What do you think? Are you interested in the "world's fastest console"? Zoom into the comments below.
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Bet the proper design will have racing stripes and an aerodynamic shape because that box isn’t going anywhere quickly.
Blast processing confirmed
Just a couple more months before the actuall design starts to leak Right?
Fastest what? GPU? memory speeds? CPU? SSD? Overall? At which point how do they know compared to other consoles? What metrics are they using?
Quick loading times would be terrific, but hopefully this extends to the actual operation of the system as well outside of the games. One thing I love about my Switch is how quickly I can turn on the system and boot into something compared to Wii U and PS4.
Half-Life 3 confirmed.
The only console capable of sold state warp drive.
But can it do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs?
@carlos82 I can do the kettle run in under 12 parsecs.
@Knuckles-Fajita m.2 SSD. That's the component it allows to minimise load times, boot times, downloads, streaming and so on. Although CPU is what processes it, single-core speed is not as important as multiple cores running at a above average speed (Hence, AMD is better than Intel, just saying).
all the consoles are being lined up at the tokyo olympics next year for a race. PS5 obviously has some 'secret juice' to make sure it will cross the line first.
@Quintumply what are you waiting for, I'll have tea with milk and two sugars please. Anyone else getting their orders in?
Going by the sound of the jet engine in my PS4, I'm inclined to believe them.
I know that's just a mock-up from Letsgodigital, but why on Earth would the PS5 have video controls - pause, fast forward and rewind - on the front of the box? Is anybody going to be watching Youtube sitting 2' from their tv? And wouldn't PLAY and STOP buttons, for a disc, make a whole lot more sense than pause, fast forward and rewind?
Maybe it's the fastest console b/c it doubles as a Botvac and it can clean your carpets right quick?
@Callmegil Given I spent 5 years making games and PCs, I know what an m.2 is.
I was more referring to how the article simply says "Fastest console" while not referring to what specifically about it is fast.
It could be fast clock speeds, fast memory, fast SSD as we all know is coming (At least compared to what is in the PS4 with it's HDD, yet to see load times on native PS5 software).
It could be a fast OS, as despite the PS4 OS being a fork of the same Linux based system as Horizon (Switch) and many other OS systems....it takes a long time to do anything by comparison, and also uses a large amount of RAM.
Further, if they ARE talking about the SSD as the bar for what makes this "The fastest console", what does that mean for the Xbox Scarlett SSD? Is that one confirmed to those parties to be slower?
@Knuckles-Fajita I gave you information based on the interview PlayStation had with Wired. I presume they didn't go into details here, because they already have with Wired.
Is anyone else concerned that the SSD size will be small and not replacable?
@Knuckles-Fajita well Microsoft are already market theirs like this on their own project Scarlett webpage
"Project Scarlett will set a new bar for console power, speed and performance, arriving Holiday 2020 alongside Halo Infinite."
As for who's genuinely fastest or more powerful, who knows at this stage as rumours swing both ways, though I have seen several which suggests that Scarlett is better at ray tracing and has a gpu set up more towards compute power than pushing pixels
@ThaBEN I have no doubt, with current pricing, it'll be small but I'm pretty sure it'll be replaceable or, at the very least, have the option to add extra external SSDs.
PS5 launching before Scarlet confirmed..
Nah I'm kidding haha
It's fast because of all the fans.
If you strip the casing away and turn it on, it'll fly away.
I've just bought new trainers, I bet it's not as fast as me.
@leucocyte 😂 😂 😂
Going from the home screen, straight into a multiplayer lobby. Picking up on any adventure game you're playing from the last piint you were standing. No longer needing to launch games and go through intro screens. Just click & play.
That's what they mean.
I clicked on the link and it dosent say anything about the fastest console, however i saw a video on YouTube and it showed what Sony said. So maybe Sony knows they have the better console and accidentally revealed it before removing it?
@TurboTom
No doubt someone gave too much information or personal feeling. I wonder if that could be related to the incredible clock speed that was leaked. That's hard to beat even if it's not all that matters.
@JJ2 yeah your probably right, however i imagine both Sony and Microsoft will know more about what each other is doing than what we do at the moment. And yes that rumoured clock speeds will make it incredibly fast and powerful.
As long as they don't pull an Xbox One X with "world's most powerful" and then proceed to not actually use the power. Not a single game was developed for that box making it the "world's most gullible purchase" aside from carbon offsets.
Honestly I would really like it if the PS5 had a wild look. I really don't want yet another black or white rectangle.
@TurboTom
Yea, thinking about it, many devs have both dev kits. Phil Spencer saying he doesn't have access to ps5 dev kit was total BS.
However it's a year before they launch and final consoles probably a bit different.
Just keep the promise of concentrating on big AAA release from day 1 (and RayTracing that works at 1080p)... And you have a sale
Not end up with a million old ports like the last +2 years on my Switch. Not paying launch prices again to end up with old games I have in my Steam account 🙄
Well with that new flux capacitor technology it should be the fasterest console on earth.
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