New Nintendo Platform Teased at Conference, "NX"

[Materia-Blade]

curl-6 said:

Materia-Blade said:

If I recall, x1 has esram, not edram.the edram may not cover 4gb of difference but it definetely reduces the gap. And there's a little something called "porting" and "scaling" down, those things are what put money on 3rd party's pockets. just reducing resolution to 720p must help a lot without even considering downscaling. finally, it's not like those ps4/x1 games really need all 5gb of ram.

eDRAM is more about compensating for RAM latency and bandwidth, not size. The idea is it's this small bank of super-fast memory that you use for tasks where main RAM is too slow. But that's the thing, it's small. It makes up just 3% of Wii U's total memory.

Downscaling can be a difficult process; not only do you have to reduce certain assets while maintaining acceptable fidelity, you often have to entirely rework in-game systems, like streaming higher resolution assets from the disc, which raises problems like disc access speed and optical drive bandwidth. You may have to partition levels that were originally seamless into chunks that load and unload separately to remain within RAM parameters.

you're saying 32mb of edram is low? you realize it isn't like ram memory, wich is in the thousands of megabytes, right?

downscalling would be a difficult process if there too much difference in horsepower and engines weren't made to be scalable.