With next gen officially less than a year away now, it’s no surprise that everyone in the industry – from the hardware manufacturers to the game developers to the audiences – is getting visibly excited about the prospect of newer hardware, and what advancements it will bring with it. And while there’s still plenty we don’t yet know about the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, Sony and Microsoft have both revealed some interesting things about their consoles as well.
The PS5, for instance, will be making use of an AMD Zen 2 processing chip, a factor that potentially might give its CPU a big boost over that of the PS4, and its something that developers have spoken to us about with plenty of enthusiasm over the past few months. Another such developer is Przemyslaw Dabrowski of Arclight Creations, who is working as a programmer on the upcoming narrative-driven adventure title Help Will Come Tomorrow.
Speaking with GamingBolt in an interview, Dabrowski spoke highly of the PS5’s CPU, saying that the extra power it will afford developers will “offer a lot of benefits” and make it possible to “create more realistic and immersive worlds.”
“The 8 core, 16 threaded Zen 2 CPU is indeed a major, and exciting improvement over the last gen consoles,” he said. “More available processing power can offer a lot of benefits for the developer – for example in procedurally generated and simulation heavy games, or physics calculations. So not only does the better processing power offer a smoother gameplay experience, it will offer us – the developers – a possibility to create more realistic and immersive worlds.”
Dabrowski also spoke to us about the PS5’s SSD, which is another major aspect of its specs that Sony (and others in the industry) have been touting as something that can have a huge impact. Said Dabrowski, “An SSD offers faster load times, which generally will improve the player experience. Also, it will help in any case that will require a fast data stream from the disk.”
Of course, the specifics of how good the PS5’s SSD is and what its CPU will end up amounting to remain to be seen- though a recent leak may have uncovered some interesting details about both those things and more, and how the PS5 stacks up against the known specs of the Xbox Series X.
Recently, Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida, formerly the head of SIE Worldwide Studios, said that with the PS5, Sony are ensuring that developers find their hardware very easy to develop for, which many in the industry might value more than raw power (remember the PS3?). Read more about that through here.
Arclight Creations’ Help Will Come Tomorrow is due out some time this year for the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Our full interview with Przemyslaw Dabrowski will be live soon, so stay tuned for the whole thing.