The Road to PS5

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as required viewing for understanding the PS5's SSD and architecture beyond raw specs.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

PlayStation

Topic

ps5 system architecture

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• IMO required viewing for any dev to form a more informed opinion on the SSD tech. Cerny talks about it fairly practically. Starting point on SSD: [VIDEO] for about 20 minutes

• Yes, a lot of people commenting here should really go watch the talk Mark Cerny gave [0]. It's clear there's no "big technological breakthrough". SSDs are great but have been around for a while already, we simply had to wait for the technology to mature …

• I can really recommend this tech talk regarding PS4 and PS5 hardware by their lead hardware architect [VIDEO] some really interesting topics related to what kind of performance they wanted as a baseline and how to optimize to make the PS5 do what it currently …