So fun facts about well at least the OG PS4. The harddrive bay is actually not connected like you think. Its bottle necked with a USB-3 connection. The Blu-Ray drive is SATA-3 but not the HDD. So some of my friends were thinking about upgrading their harddrives for more space. There are a few of us who don't view money as an obstacle. I started looking into what the best SSD (best price vs more storage) for the OG PS4 would be. Short answer, if money is TRULY no obstacle, then any SSD is fine, just get enough space. But doing a little research taught me that any SSD would be kneecapped at less than half its speed potential but the cables AND chipset available on the board. You know, the ones that do the data decoding. The best option is actually a Seagate 2TB hybrid drive with 8GB of SSD. The 8GB allows the drive to "shingle" its data and load the more frequently loaded bits into the RAM faster. After a few loads into a game (5 is the magic number I think) your HSSD will be approaching the kneecapped limits of any SSD you would chuck into the PS4. When playing Anthem, a game known for its monstrous loading times on console, I played with a friend who had a stock PS4 Pro (with better databus handling) and another friend with an OG PS4. Both me and the friend with the OG PS4 both had the hybrid drives. We noticed that we were out speeding our third friend with the Pro by 10 to 15 seconds each time we loaded into the open world.
TL;DR
The PS4 and PS4 Pro have pathetic databus speeds.
Of course an SSD and appropriate hardware and going to make a huge difference.
Also I don't care so much about fps all that often, and yes while 30fps on most console games is kinda the bare minimum anymore, I am ok with it. AS LONG AS ITS LOCKED AT 30. Dropping frames when your game runs at 30fps is unacceptable. Also games like Monster Hunter World suffered in BOTH directions. As far as I could tell, the game just ran at whatever the system had the ability to run at. Sometimes I would be charging around the world in ~40fps. Sometimes there would be lots of stuff to render and I would drop into the 20fps range. And weirdest of all, sometimes you would kill a monster and- weeeeee there goes my frame rate approaching 60fps??? Anyways my point is this. I am sick of hearing all these companies waggling their dicks over higher resolutions. I don't have a 4K tv. I don't plan on getting a 4K tv anytime soon. My little 27" Vizio is full 1080p with HDR. There aren't a lot of people who have adapted to 4K yet. And certainly almost no one with 8K. The average gamer doesn't even care. Even if they do, most don't know that their TV can't do 4K, their TV is doing all the work (since there isnt much 4K content anyways, or they don't have the necessary
HDMI cables anyways. 4 and 8K are industry buzzwords to stimulate the uneducated into salivating over technology that they probably can't even tell the difference. Akin to just getting everyone to shout "What beautiful clothes, Emperor Sony!" I am here to yell "The emperor has no clothes."
TL;DR 2
Stop focusing on these ridiculous resolutions and give me locked 60fps on all games.
If Sony or whoever would give me a solid statement (you know, and back it up) saying "all games you can play on your PS4 will run at a minimum of a locked 60fps, I would chuck my PS4 right out the window and buy a new one. I don't give a crap about resolution, HDR and your other bullshit sound ray tracing. Give me a rock steady 60fps. Use the extra power to make every single game better for everyone, not the select few who want to be early adopters into the 8K TV market.
Source: PR
