PlayStation 4 gives up to 5.5GB of RAM to game developers

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thismeintiel said:

I have to say the last few hours have been very entertaining.

It seems all the Xbox fanboys were able to come out of hiding because there was the smallest shred of negative (not really) news for the PS4. Of course, they completely ignore the fact that even if the rumor is correct, PS4 devs still have 0.5GB more RAM to work with, or the same amount that's in the 360/PS3. And much faster RAM, at that. Also, quite funny how they still wish to ignore the MOST important factor, spec-wise, that the PS4 has a more powerful GPU.

Really, Xbox fans should be the last ones talking about specs, since the PS4 beats the One in every category in that department. If you're going to brag about anything about the One, it should be its features and/or exclusives. But, DEFINITELY not specs.

This is what I don't get.  Crysis 3 doesn't even need 5gb of DDR3 RAM if I'm not mistaken.  GDDR5 is more optimized for games plus it's optimized on a console far more (look at what devs did with 256mb this gen).  Why people don't focus on PS4's 50% more powerful GPU is simple, they know X1 can't compete there.  They latch onto RAM now because one bad rumor that I'm hearing has been debunked mentioned the amount (not quality) has been brought to par with X1.  The GPU is the most important part of the trifecta (CPU, GPU, RAM) that's always talked about and PS4 has its biggest advantage there.  PS4 GPU is looking beast especially with "the Crew" devs already basically saying they couldn't use it all being a multiplat game.  Infamous looks mighty impressive whether it's using 4gb or 7gb of RAM.