| ninjablade said: i'm not really sure but i keep hearing how expensive the ultra fast ram is, so i started thinking wouldn't it be cheaper if had they gone with a 2.5 gflops GPU and 4gb gddr5, wouldn't that make the system cheaper and give it better graphics, i just don't see how they could use the 8gb or even 4gb, the budget for the game would be insane. |
No offense but you are very misinformed. Utilizing more RAM doesn't magically increase the budget. If anything, it reduces it. The more RAM a console has, the less man hours they have to spend trying to fit game assets into memory.
Another thing....Sony is buying RAM in bulk. For them to to upgrade from 4 to 8GB of GDDR5 it probably means they got a really good deal. They couldn't have upgraded the graphics card or the CPU since the PS4 is running on an APU. GPU/CPU were decided a long time ago and its impossible to change now without massive delalys. The only thing they can do this late is over/underclock these things.
