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superchunk on 13 September 2012
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Andrespetmonkey said:
superchunk said:

1GB on current games is overkill and definitely great. Agree here

Now, when the rest of next-gen starts it will AT MAX have 4GB total in the system. I dunno about that, various developers have asked for 8gb You have to figure they will likely be about the same with 1GB for OS and system while rest is for games. Again, I don't know about this either. Microsoft if a software company and while vista was a wreck they've managed to run 7 and 8 well on small amounts of ram. Sony? idk. So that means you'll likely see them having anywhere from 1GB to 3GB for games alone. 3GBs is just a waste even if you consider where games will grow over the next few years, so there is a strong possibility they'll only have up to 2GB for games on those systems. 

There is no way that difference is going to be majorly impactful on 3rd parties. The bigger concern is if the GPUs and CPUs are significantly better than Wii U. That's the only case where Wii U would be f'ed with future 3rd party support in 2015 or so.

I'm assuming the GPU and CPU are in-line with the ram, that is 2-3x better than current gen consoles. Same would apply to ps4/durango; if they go for 4gb ram (2x wii U) then won't their GPU/CPU be in-line with that? 2x Wii U? 

About the 3gb being a waste thing... I'm not gonna pretend I'm an expert on the technical aspects of games and consoles but why would multiple major developers ask for more than double that if it's a waste? I understand that they're probably exaggerating a bit, but even then, half the amount they want and that's still 4gb.

You also have to consider as Wii U matures, that 1GB for OS will likely shrink and more of it will go to games. Probably as much as 1/2.

Didn't consider this, noted.




What devs have asked for 8GB on a console? I thought I read one.. .maybe valve that asked for 6 or more than 4 or something similar.

As for CPU/GPU, even if memory is 2-3x times, I dont' think that means by default you can expect CPU/GPU to be 2-3x greater. While I think that variance is likely, it could technically be much larger.