richardhutnik said:
JazzB1987 said:
In the beginning it will be used for the "being lazy" again.
I mean with current consoles devs were forced to optimize the hell out of their code etc to make the games run etc... with Sony's 8gb of ram they can finally throw unoptimized "mess code" at the console.
I am pretty sure we will have games alot of inefficient games in the beginning and in a few years we will finally have games that make use of the 8gb of ram (well 7gb for games)
The games we will see in the first 2 years might work with 1-2gb of ram but because they are unoptimized they will use need alot more.
Devs might do this because a) its a new generation and programming is a bit harder than with consoles you had 7 years with. 2) it saves alot of money and because 1GB of ram is still 4x or even 8x the ram of ps360(depending on how you look at the PS3's ram) and its faster anyways we will still see a difference in graphics so there is no need right now to "use" all the Ram.
P.S. the "lazy" thing is also the reason why you read that devs love the huge amount of ram.
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Exactly what award one wins for not being "lazy"? Is there some sort of golden cookie they give out? There is a reality of tight deadlines and need to get things out to the market inside tight windows. In light of this, why wouldn't there be said "laziness"? And I find it interesting that "lazy" is thrown around a bunch by people who don't work in the industry and don't kow what is involved.
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How about replacing the word lazy with easy money grab or putting your B team to work on a console or not investing that much money or setting that much time to develop a game for a console (Madden Wii U developed in less than 6 months) or how about copy and paste a leading game in a genre or how about setting unrealistic goals for a title that would not sell that much then pulling any future support or how about the video game industry is just one giant pile of immature shit most of the times.
