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scottie on 24 February 2013
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PScollector said:
scottie said:
@ PS collector. - I think you are being a little over sensitive. I was asked why I hate Sony. I pointed out that I do not hate Sony, and politely identified a thing that Sony does that makes me dislike them slightly.

If you can't accept that things such as the Cell processor, Blu ray drive (for PS3), or 8 gb of GDDR5 ram are making games too expensive and graphics oriented for me, then I suggest you leave the thread.

Even I think the cell processor was a bit of a screw up so I think where on the same page there, but as for the 8gig of GDDR5 ram making games more expensive??? I dont think it will change the pricing point + there not just using all that ram for graphics only, there going 2 have alot of other tasks running in the background multi tasking etc, mabye watch the 2013 meeting?


No such thing as a free lunch. If you give the PS4 8 gig of ram instead of 4, developers have to make their games look better to compete with other PS4 games. This costs money for the developers to do. The developers then have a choice, they can

* Sell the game for more money (which may include selling things as dlc that should be the main game)

* Compromise in some other area, such as length of game, gameplay, debugging etc

* Make less money

 

Now, I hope you can immediately see why some people would not be happy with options 1 or 2? You might think extra graphics are worth what you have to give up, but for me personally, they are not.

 

As for option 3, a lot of studios took that option in the PS3 gen. A lot of them went bankrupt. Again, I hope you can see why I consider that not worth it?

 

Also, it will only be 7 years between console launches for Sony, 6 for Nintendo and most likely 8-9 for MS. Nintendo can hardly be accused of being the company that is pushing graphical advancement too fast.