Notice how no console has launched with a SSD, not just the PS4 Pro?

They will :)

They do.

This custom, optimized SSD being in every single PS5 will be orders of magnitude more beneficial than just throwing an SSD in a PS4 is.

Totally not the same thing. Having this custom, optimized SSD in every PS5 will be orders of magnitude more meaningful than just throwing an SSD in a PS4 is.

The benefits of this custom SSD being included in every PS5 will be orders of magnitude more meaningful than putting an SSD in a PS4 is.

Eh, that’s not really the case with the PS4. You could much more easily make that case with the base Xbox One, but even then I’d consider that a stretch.

There’d be no reason this time for them to remove it. You can rest assured it will remain.

Please stop being aggressively wrong. Dolby Digital and DTS are not the same thing as 3D audio.

Nope! Ray tracing can absolutely be used as a technique for producing 3D audio.

Nah, their willingness to go with a (custom, optimized) SSD on a console is a fairly revolutionary development. That will have massive benefits for games on top of the quality of life improvements for players.

No console has had an SSD out of the box. It’s a massive surprise, actually, that Sony would even do that with the PS5. Developers would have asked for this but wouldn’t have expected to get it.

Your brain is looking for patterns that, even if they did exist, are not predictive of the future.

Ehhh, that’s not really how this works. Otherwise Microsoft would be the publisher with perennial game of the year contenders and PlayStation consoles would never be able to keep up in hardware innovation or specs, and neither of those are the case.

Trust me, that’s not really what happened with the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One X. And that situation is not really analogous to the next gen consoles, at all.

This wasn’t a leak. It was an interview with Mark Cerny, complete with a demo of some of the tech. Sony decided to release this info, so one can’t really doubt its veracity as if it was a rumor.

The RSX Reality Synthesizer was actually the PS3's new GPU. The PS2 GPU was the GS Graphics Synthesizer, and that was included on a dual chip with the Emotion Engine CPU on the hardware-based backwards compatible models.

A PS2, a PS3, and a PS5 will be the best you can reasonably expect to do. That’s my current setup (switching the PS5 for a PS4, obviously.)

Nah, the PS5 is definitely releasing in 2020. And, nah, the PS5 with these specs will still be a monster of a console at that point.