PS3 games and the lack of 1080p

[LordTheNightKnight]

davygee said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

So what if Blu-Ray and the hard drive allow more texture room in the Roms? You still need room in the RAM to actually show them off. That is why 1080p is not feasible for most games. Resolution needs RAM to be higher. The PS3 has only 512MB.

It's not that hard to put together.

So you're saying that 512MB isn't enough to show a game in 1080p? How come PC's have been playing in higher resolutions than this for years and using less than 512MB of RAM as well. The bottom line is that the PS3 is capable of showing 1080p and I'm pretty sure the developers will find ways of storing textures and optimising the code to use less memory so that they can display in 1080p.

Anyway, there are already games out there that display in 1080p and it will be a task for the developers to come up with games that utilise this higher resolution while adhering to the evidently small amount of RAM contained in the PS3.

Only time will tell.

Not for the scale of a typical 360/PS3 game. PC games before this used 5-6th gen level graphics, which leave plenty of room for large frame buffers.

For equivalent PC games to the 360 and PS3, you need a lot more memory to run at 1080p.