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Akvod said:
Kantor said:
I think you greatly overestimate how much people actually care about the amount of RAM inside a console.

There would be no meltdowns if the NextBox had more than 8GB GDDR5 RAM, because that would be a ridiculous waste of money and resources. Even 8GB is pushing into the realms of absurdity.

To play the devil's advocate though, I do think people do care about numbers, and if their console has bigger numbers than the other consoles. But then you have to take into account there's many fucking numbers:

Price

Number of exclusives

Dates

etc

 

And yeah, I have no idea what RAM really does. I think it's the memory that actually stores and runs the applications? I mean, there's a reason why I'm a console gamer...


Don't forget  how much money shareholders are getting that gamers will not likely see direct benefit too.  That seems to be a new metric around in the console war (for gamers to care so much) especially with one fanbase.



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