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The character switch animation in GTA 5 was a loading screen wearing a costume. That Google Earth zoom-out everyone remembers bought the engine time. Jumping from Michael to Trevor meant dumping one side of the map and streaming an entirely new one off a PS4 hard drive that read about 100 MB per second. Rockstar couldn't hide the wait, so they made the wait cinematic. Players spent 13 years admiring a progress bar. The PS5's SSD reads 5.5 GB per second. Over 50x faster. That's the entire…