| Slimebeast said: The reason why most PC games have recommended specs of 4GM RAM and 1GB video RAM is because we are at the end of a generation. |
No. Because 4G Ram in your PC insures that you get the 2G of ram your game can actually use. Windows is such a memory hog that it easily eats 1G away. As far as I know, in 2011, most people still ran a 32bit OS like WinXP or Win7 for gaming. All games are compiled with a 32bit compiler. So the maximum you get on a PC is 2G ram (even less if you run a 32bit OS due to the required texture mirroring). I doubt we will see a major sweep to 64bit games in the very near future. A new console with 2G of ram would be sufficient and economically sane, more would just increase the console price too much compared to the competitors (of which there are now two by 2013, so every $ saved counts).
