
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is now available on PC, which means that developer Insomniac's claims that the game was only possible with the power of the PS5's SSD are being put to the test. Turns out that the developers were right.
Back in 2020, ahead of the launch of both the game and the PS5 itself, creative director Marcus Smith said that "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is a game that utilizes dimensions and dimensional rifts, and that would not have been possible without the solid state drive of the PlayStation 5." That statement has proven weirdly controversial among console warriors over the years, though it's always been clear enough that the quote was referring more to the type of SSD the PS5 uses than some special property of the console itself.