ninjablade said:
VGKing said:
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.
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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.
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I think you missed my point, think about this, look at what were getting from 360/ps3 with 512mb of slow ram, look at the budgets for the AAA games, now i'm sure 8gb will make a bit easier for developers, but will the games get a beneifit out of it, 3gb of ultra fast ram is enough to run any game on the most powerful gpu on highest settings on pc, now ps4 gpu is nice but its not omg amazing, its half the power of the most powerful gpu's, i thijnk a better gpu with 4gb of GDDR5 would have been better, but i'm still happy with the specs, considering it's probably gonna be the most powerful console.
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It will ease the development if nothing else. You will mostly like see games releasing faster because the don't have to optimize RAM usage so much anymore. The issue will really be the continuation of the 7th gen, which means the bigger and better, the more bugs will be there. If you think patching was bad on consoles in the 7th gen, I'd say welcome to the world of PCs, which consoles are more and more becoming, instead of worrying about how much RAM the PS4 will have.
