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Forums - Sony Discussion - Original PS4 design had 4GB RAM

prayformojo on 29 September 2013
Jereel Hunter said:
prayformojo said:
Jereel Hunter said:
prayformojo said:

Here's the thing. Discs? Take care of them, and they will be there for your entire life. Those XBLA titles? They'll run fine until your HDD goes out (all HDDs WILL fail sooner or later with use) and then MS shuts down the servers to the 360 like they did the original Xbox. Then what? Where are all your games?

You're allowed to have your opinion. My opinion? That's not leaps and bounds better in every conceivable way. That's leaps and bounds worse in every conceivable way.

So being able to download games from the cloud, at all, is a bad thing?  Because that's what it being worse in every conceivable way means. If you genuinely can't see the potental advantages, in addition to what you didn't like, then I don't know what to tell you.

Aside from that, X1 games are going to be available on discs. you can have a disc and have your game loaded to the cloud. Also, bear in mind what the CLOUD is. You're picturing old servers, big dedicated computers with high maintenance, long term. The cloud is a vast amount of computing power which can be used for many different tasks. That means in 15 years, when the X1 platform has been sunsetted, they can simply leave the cloud usage available to the people still playing it, but shift the bulk of the processing power to newer tasks. The cloud makes it FAR more economical/viable to keep things like that on forever.


But the problem remains because you're relying on MS to play your games. If you buy a disc and take care of it, you are in total control over that game.

I guess if this was early 2000's, that would be true. Most games nowadays rely on online aspects for at least some of the experience. And as long as that's the case, you're at least somewhat reliant on someone's servers being functional, and having the internet. If you consider that a bad thing, fortunately, older game systems will still be around. If you want total control forever, no exceptions, take good care of your PS1/PS2

I can play GTA 5 forever, and it just released. Sim City 4? Not so much.



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SlayerRondo on 29 September 2013

If i were to guess before the next gen console specs were announced what the RAM would most likely be I would have said 4GB.

I think 8GB was the right move and give's companies more room to ex[and in the next generation.

The biggest problem I saw with the last generation was some companies (Bethesda) going about 5% further than the console could handle.



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