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Cool concept.
I'm pretty certain it's checkerboarded on X1X too.
Why would you want an optical audio port when higher quality audio can be send via HDMI? Source
It is from RAD game tools but i don't think they charge Sony for including a decompressor unit for it. I think kraken is already being used in PS4 in "oodle", Shadow of War uses it. Now that kraken decompression can be done natively on PS5, even more developers will use it.
It's for convenience and legacy. It's strange that MS support BC so heavily but decide that their userbase shouldn't use their optical-only audio systems any longer.
Equivalent ram, but the jury is still out on that oddball XsX setup. By all known measures it looks to be somewhat special, special olympics special.
Yeah it is probably a cost cutting measure, but just last week I was looking for a proper soundbar, and decided not to buy one because it only had optical and not HDMI. So maybe it's due to my situation that I don't care as much. For others it's indeed annoying
Sow and other games already pay rad game tools for using the tools and sdks. In no way the algorithm is free, rad game tools lives selling tools, they for sure have made a super price to Sony but still they're getting payed, other than the fact than now more or less they have assured the usage of their tools from a majority of studios willing to work for ps5. Or sony payed and the tool is included in their sdk or the studio has to pay to compress in kraken format, and it's not assured that everyone is willing to do that. On the other half of the world bcpack is made by Ms so will be free for sure. Sorry for errors, writing on the phone.
Not practical at all, seems like a nightmare to clean
Why those concepts always looks like this? Those graphics artists are pure nerds
lol
I hope this is a win-win situation for Sony and RAD.
This makes the most sense, given that Sony already had to pay licensing fees just to include Kraken decompression into their hardware.
Yes, the funny thing is that the majority of people is lost doing console wars insted of noticing how both the system have made great strides to be absolute wonderful GAMING machines, everything was chosen to bring equilibrium and eliminate obstacles (in both camps). We finally have manufacturers trying to deliver solid all around systems, not gimped in any major area and this is the most important thing, next gen have the potential to be glorious, and to be very expensive for the studios catering to AAA budget titles
What i am saying is sure RAD charges developers to use their compression technology but why would Sony pay RAD to have it running on their machine? It's like Epic charges developers to use their Unreal engine to make games but Sony doesn't pay Epic to have their engine run on PlayStation. Hope this clears the confusion.
Do you have a link to this statement?
Kraken is now used by all PS5 software, they literally implemented the algorithm in hardware. So yes, Kraken is the factual default compression on PS5. System wide.
Kraken is proprietary. Unless RAD is giving it to Sony for free (they're not), Sony IS paying for it. Even if they get just 5$ per console. That's 500 million for all PS5s (projected).
I bet it's closer to $1 per console. Just a guess.
PS4 has dedicated zlib decompressor but still some games use kraken on PS4. Like wise dedicated Kraken decompressor is on PS5 but as usual devs are free to use their choice of decompression system.
I think a bit more, rad is no small company is ade facto industry leader for tools. And licenses cost a shit load of money specially for big studios, development tools costs, and a lot too.
Of course it's not mandatory, but why would a dev not use it if it's baked into the system?
zlib is free, kraken is not. So for now i don't believe RAD is going away with nothing in hands. But i don't think we'll ever see an official statement, those things are not at our level.
There could be myriad reasons for their choice.
Interesting. I thought any data accessed on the SSD goes through an IO pipeline that has Kraken as a basic, always-on part of it. Hard to guess rn I think.
Hmm... compression seems useless without decompression. It's an integrated, end-to-end system. If you have a proprietary compressor, you'd need a proprietary decompressor too.
Are those still a thing on SSDs? There's no more seek time like HDDs
Indie games like SteamWorld heist, which are very small <1GB total size amd playable on all sorts of devices might not even use any kind of compression/decompression.
Let me ask you this, Do you think Sony is paying RAD for PS4 as PS4 also seems to be decompressing kraken data without a dedicated unit?
I think if Sony are using some/any Kraken IP in their API and providing it to devs, then they're paying RAD tools for the privilege.
the game studio is paying rad to decompress kraken via software not using a custom hardware already present in the system. This is totally different dude.
How do we know it's better with no proof?
There is no statement about Sony passing licenses along. I assume Sony needed to pay RAD Tools, since Kraken is proprietary.
I agree with this, that many games won't be using it at all... which is why I believe the per-unit cost of including the tech should be fairly low. Maybe <$1 per PS5 sold, $20 per devkit.
Cool concept.
Yeah, it looks cool but way over designed. That housing would be a paradise for dust collecting.Not practical at all, seems like a nightmare to clean
Why those concepts always looks like this? Those graphics artists are pure nerds
