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walsufnir on 09 August 2013
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Nyleveia said:
Kyuu said:
Mark my words, It's never gonna happen. 8 Gigs (5 for games) of RAM is being considered an overkill by many. 12 Gigs would be a complete waste.

Microsot would be so stupid if they do something like that. Think about it, would they raise the costs of an already expensive console for little to no reason? come on..


My GTX titan has 6gb of gddr5 and yet theres virtually no game, regardless of setting that can use all of that ram at 1080p, higher than that and ram usage does increase a lot, hitting 4k just about maxes out 5gb of my titans memory in BF3, and yet we have people fangasming over the prospect of a system potentially having 12gb when both consoles are primarilly going to be aiming for (and sometimes missing) 1080p, its just silly, the systems cant use the ram they currently have because the platforms as a whole arent powerful enough to output a usable framerate for a decent 3d title higher than 1080p.

of course, they may do a few 4k games but these are going to be basic and hardly worth the resolution bump to begin with, those expecting 4k with their latest AAA titles though.. are probably those expecting most games for ps3 and 360 to be 1080p60.

In short, 5-6gb of ram is easilly more than enough for this entire generation, adding more isnt going to add much benefit beyond extremely expansive open world where data is streamed into the idle ram to be used if you explore far enough, the downside here is that youre basically wasting ram to hold data the user may not even need during a playthrough - and this can be achieved through assets streaming without much to any impact in gameplay on both ddr3 and gddr5 anyway.

there is no benefit to adding more ram to the ps4 or the xone, there are only downsides, higher price, longer period before pricedrops, higher temperature (more modules heating up), higher possibility for failure, developers being lazy with their code because "theres spare space to fill", increasing load times while said space is filled with shit you might not even need.

Rather than praying for stuff like this to be true, it would make much more sense to just say "okay, if games ever do need more ram, microsoft and sony should move the goalposts for OS footprint and free some up once the OS has matured enough to know a large block wont be needed".

But that would make too much sense to raging fanboys.


You totally ignore that console-memory is used by graphics *and* game-data. You will also see a bump in PC-requirements as engines now can finally evolve because of the new console-generation. Your downsides are also, well, at least questionable, to be honest and some are even wrong.