| 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. |
Maybe the ability to stand-by any game and resume it instantly is worth the extra cost... plus Sony always plans for longer console life-cycle aiming at 10 years.
Finally... the next Xbox also has 8 core processor and 8 GB of DDR3 memory... the only difference is the DDR3 vs. GDDR5. I believe Xbox changed theirs from 4GB to 8GB after learning PS4 spec...
X360 had also gone from 256MB to 512MB in final pre-release year based on some late decisions to just eat the cost cause the performance boost was worth it.
