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Solid_Snake4RD on 18 July 2010
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KillerMan said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
KillerMan said:
Darc Requiem said:

RAM is always an achilles heel for consoles. While PCs always out pace consoles in CPU and GPU power, PC games have to account for the fact that not everyone PC owner is going to have the latest hardware. This helps consoles platforms because while PC devs have to account for the lowest common denominator, console devs are always pushing to get the most of hardware.

RAM is another story. Consoles tend to have a brief hardware power advantage at launch but they still are at disadvantage in RAM. Consoles usually have faster RAM at launch and combined with larger overhead of PCs that helps them initially. However PC's have far more RAM. When bought my launch 360 in 2005, my desktop had 2GB of RAM and GPU had 256MB of VRAM.

Honestly consoles makers need to try to squeeze as much RAM into there consoles at launch as possible. I think if Sony would have ditched the XDR RAM in order to have more total RAM it would have been far more advantageous. Having more RAM than the 360 would made it far more difficult for developers to switch projects from PS3 to 360. It also would have made it easier for them to use Blu-Ray's storage advantage for better textures.


I have also wondered this especially as Sony launched PS3 one year later. They could have easily gone with 1gb of normal RAM and nowadays production costs would be maybe couple of dollars more than they are now with current PS3 but in exchange PS3 would have real graphical advantage over X360. With this pretty many HD console buyers would have probably chosen PS3 instead of X360.

it would have lost more money on PS3

and HD consoles console buyers still wouldn't have bought PS3 instead of 360 as the price would have been more like ir was as it is

Yes but with more RAM PS3's value in eyes of normal customer would have risen a lot more compared to production costs because PS3 would have real graphical advantage over X360.High price would have been better justified and this would have led more people to choose PS3 over X360.

a normal consumer doesn't know shit about RAM and all

we see that alot like iPHONE outselling its superior competitors

Now it cost a lot more than X360 but the games look about the same.

not really the exclusive games look alot better