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Captain_Tom on 16 April 2013
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Zero999 said:
Captain_Tom said:
Zero999 said:

wii u has like 1,5 GB of very efficient RAM available for games and the memory the others have doesn't change how much RAM a game needs. it's an exaggeration to think a home console game will actualy need 3 to 4 GB. i can only see devs using more than that if they don't optmize the code too much.


Then you know nothing about how computers work.  First of all the Wii U's RAM is about half as fast as the PS3's so idk what is so "Efficient" about it.  Second of all, the PS4's GPU is easily capable of 2-3GB of textures and those aren't lazy, they just take up space.  After that you do need at least 4GB of system RAM to feed the beast fast enough.   It's just how things work, and it is why open world games like Fallout look like PS2 games on this gen, and not on PC  (Even a really weak PC looks better than PS360 with Fallout/Skyrim): they don't have enough RAM.

" Wii U's RAM is about half as fast as the PS3's": says who? not the developers praising the wii u ram. not the games that run better on wii u than on ps360.

if you're talking about those numbers of 22mb/s for ps3 vs 12.8mb/s for wii u. I might be wrong here, but I think that's the maximun performance for the ps3 (the game code is optimized the most) against the raw speed of the memory wii u uses. it desn't take into consideration how the wii u works as a whole. if we were to check the ps3 memory separetely from the console I think it would be far less than the wii u's raw 12.8mb/s.

Says facts!  The PS3 uses XDR RAM which is usually around 3000MHz effective (When the PS3 released, modern XDR is WAYYY faster).  The Wii U uses 1600MHz effective DDR3 RAM.  It's not quite double, but it is close.  

I have only heard bad things from "Developers" about the RAM.  Here are posts from people who actually took apart the Wii U and analized the difference in RAM speeds:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500362

http://gbatemp.net/threads/shocking-wii-u-news-slow-ram-speed-and-ports-issues.337749/

 

These people, like me, do there research before spouting off baseless drivel.  But keep living in your dream world where the Wii U isn't an abomination of design choices.  I sweat I could write an entire paper on how cluster f*cked the Wii U's design is.  It's like they tryed to hold it back from next gen in every possible way...

 

P.S. I could also write a paper on how SONY could have made the exact same launch PS3 for $100 less...