I hate to say it but this SSD story has been plastered all over the news by the PR machine, mainly because the new consoles have no other inovations whatsoever.

I hate to say it but this SSD story has been plastered all over the news by the PR machine, mainly because the new consoles have no other inovations whatsoever... These new SSD's are more of an upgrade then we've had in any console over multiple generations. Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4 were all pretty standard "mini-PC" consoles. PS3 had a different architecture that didn't really pay off until much later in the console's life-cycle and still didn't have a huge impact, hence the PS4 dropping Cell for the PS4.