Consoles, what they are, were and could be.

Update: It’s been brought to my attention that I left out discussion of the contentious PS5 SSD technology. I should have mentioned it. Believe it or not, my intention here wasn’t to make a flame war. The demo looks cool, but I don’t have much of an opinion on it except to say that consoles can generally offer a more optimized platform for developers than general PC hardware. And since that platform is standardized, developers can micro-optimize over the lifetime of the console.…