hduser said:
I wouldn't denegrate the 360's approach to memory since it is a consumer device that's meant to be low in cost. You can still maximize the memory thats not being used by the GPU. Yes, since it's unified, you do have to share bus cycles between CPU and GPU. In multiplatform games, the games should be simlar in look and size but you wonder if any sacrifices had to be made for each implementation of it which is the main point of this thread that the PS3 doesn't look like the 360 version. Why? it seems like main memory is the culprit. I'm not saying you can't make great games with this limitaion as you cite Uncharted, MGS4 or KZ2. But you can ask yourself how much better the games could have been if the designers had more memory. Last I heard the Sony OS footprint is 90MB out of the 256MB, that's a large chunk of overhead. If you had a unified memory approach, you can allocate more memory of instead of being fixed 256MB. I hope someone can quote the 360 OS footprint for comparison sakes. |
I wasn't denigrating the 360, I was just pointing out that the 360 uses an approach similar to a low end pc. Most gaming pcs use a split ram/gpu model for memory similar to the PS3.
Since I haven't seen games like Uncharted, MGS4, or KZ2 on any other systems, I would say there is no memory limitation.
Can we leave the technical debates for another thread?
Thanks for the input, Jeff.
