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S.T.A.G.E. said:

Forget the graphics card requirements, the ram requirements alone did the Wii U in. The minimum ram requirement on PC for The Witcher 3 and Assasins Creed Unity is 6 GB of ram and the recommended amount to run the way it should is 8 GB of ram. I am guessing it will be the same for Batman as well.Batman Arkham Knight will be minimum 2GB of ram...but is 4 GB is recommended, so the game should run smoothly on the Xbox One and PS4. Perhaps some negotiations for Arkham Knight could've been made, but graphics requirements could also hamper it, so theres that as well.

 

 PC requirements (remember this also includes OS space)

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-system-requirements-announced/

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=17044&game=Batman:%20Arkham%20Knight

http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=17084&game=Assassins%20Creed:%20Unity

Nintendo truly forced the matter out of the hands of AAA third party this gen for sure. Last gen not so much, but current gen for sure...and thats probably where the major political disagreements began for a start.


Talks about WiiU and RAM
Compares it to arbitrary PC requirements.
Completely forgets that the PC requirements =/=  up to 8GB of RAM but up to 12GB because totally ignores that a PC also needs GPU RAM
(And therefore does not mention that a XB1 with a total of 8 GB of "normal" PC RAM can run games that need  up to 12GB on PC.)


Also this
"Far Cry 4 requires at least 4 GB of RAM on PC, yet it still runs just fine on a console with 256 MB of RAM (PS3)."

Etc etc etc...


I agree that the WiiU has a laughable amount of Ram. Because 4GB costs like 5€ or so (for a company like Nintendo) but you cant just  compare different systems without  also mentioning  that you need less ram for lower resolution textures etc etc. Or without talking about the ESRAM/EDRAM DDR3 DDR5 things etc.