""There's two things: memory and processing power," he said. "We need lots and lots of processing power. The more you can cram into a machine, we'll take advantage of that." While 'more power' is the obvious answer -- both on the CPU and GPU side -- we wondered what wouldn't be 'enough' to work with."

That's them talking up storm as usual like when they were saying back during the (2006-7)ps3 days saying we wish it had more ram. They do this to build hype up for there games to say we are going to max out the ram when they never really do until the end of a generation(2010-12).

"Enix believes the PS4 and Xbox 8 will need as much RAM as possible if they want to match the experience of PCs with ever-evolving hardware. "

This didn't even give a number just a lot which can mean anything.

"http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/09/battlefield-3s-rendering-architect-details-his-dream-specs-for/"

Like I said 4gb they they ideal for 8gb because if there thinking towards the end of the gen for ps4/xbox720/Wii-U. Which would be true by then it's time go.

I think that it's mostly wishful thinking, obviously not a game dev myself but 8 GB of RAM dedicated for games it's way too much, 4 GB will be more than enough imo.

If this is true and the system have that much RAM, it will most likely be used for the Kinect 2.0 and a big OS, it will probably be 3-4 GB dedicated for games, which it's still a lot.  

I acknowledged the lack of a specific number in the Sqenix quote, and I'm not going to bother arguing with you about what "lots" means to them. Can you at least admit that their are developers who very clearly want 8GB and you were wrong to say that guy was bullshitting?

Neither am I, but I'm going to go with the people who are game developers, and if they say 4-8GB of RAM is neccessary then it's probably neccessary.

Well 8gigs of ram dont matter if its crappy standard ram. Well lets see what the true specs will look like. <

BTW I am pretty sure a Kinect 2.0 will take quite a chunk of the ressources.

I hope that was sarcasm... 

I think I just made myself look like a chump

Its called future proofing...

Agreed dude... Francis talks like he knows what the final price of the 720 would be...

I've read about it being 8GB of standard DDR3 RAM plus embedded DRAM on the GPU making for a quite... peculiar design.

I don't know why on Earth they aren't going to but 4GB of faster GDDR5 like Sony probably is going to do instead of having to sold all these memory nodes into the motherboard. That's going to be quite expensive.

Possible but unlikely in my opinion ... This would (likely) result in a (roughly) $500 console that was not (fully) backwards compatible