“The world of loading screens is over,” but you're still going to make me crawl through a damn rock

Despite the fact that SSDs have been around for absolutely yonks for us PC folk, you may have noticed that one of the big talking points about Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming console boxes is how the transition from ancient internal HDDs to an SSD is going to revolutionise, nay, completely eliminate loading screens. Indeed, according to Epic’s Tim Sweeney, “The world of loading screens is over,” as he proclaimed in yesterday’s Unreal Engine 5 demo running on a PS5. If that’s the case, though, Tim, then why is your not-Lara Croft demo lady still squeezing herself through a bunch of rocks so it can load in all those billions of triangles you keep nattering on about?

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