| sethnintendo said: How many PCs come with more than 8 GB RAM standard these days? Very few. So if the PC market isn't even going past 8 GB right now then why would the console market jump past the PC market? The standard PC market will be at 8-16 GB for the next 5 years at least. I don't see PCs coming with 32 GB standard for a long time. |
8 GB isn't that uncommon, even on notebooks. I have 16 GB on my PC and it was damn cheap. Consoles have 8 GB. RAM increases all the time because it is relatively cheap. Here is an example:
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/best-notebooks-of-the-year-2009.aspx?pid=11
This is the LaptopMag gaming notebook of the year for 2009. It had 6GB of RAM. Here is their current best:
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/alienware-18.aspx
Rocking 32 GB. More than 5X more RAM.
The console market won't jump past the PC one, but right now you have PCs with 16 or 32 GB, already more than a PS4/One. In five years it won't be hard to see rigs rocking 64 or 128 GB, maybe more. It's Moore's Law that dictates how much it will increase. In 6 years, for the same price you get 32 GB today, you will be able to buy 256 GB, so we can conclude that PS5 could easily get 64 GB for the same cost as 8 GB today. Remebering that the current PS4 memory architecture is not costly effective since they have to use 16 X 512MB memories.
