PlayStation 4.5 PRICE, RELEASE DATE! - The Know (RUMOUR?)

[KBG29]

MortienGerrux said:

KBG29 said:

 Not sure how long you have been following the gaming market, but I can tell you from experience that this kind of talk has been going on for 20+ years I have been following the market. People always under estimate what is going to be in a console. During the build up to PS3 people where saying that the console would most likely only have 128MB of RAM, if you said it was going to have 256MB people said you where bat shit crazy. Then when it was announced with 512MB people where amazed for about a second, until they decided well it should have had 1GB. Go forward to the PS4 launch, and people where dead set it would have 2GB of RAM, and at the most 4GB. Then MS and Sony both came with 8GB of RAM. Again, people where blown away, until they decided well it should have had 16GB. 

Console generations have been having roughly a 14x increase in RAM every generation since PS1 when I started following gaming. For a console to be a generational leap on the same level as we have seen in the past it would have to have 128GB of RAM. Anything less would only be a partial leap, or a PS4.X.

The way I see it, a PS4 Spec 2 releasing in 2016 - 2017 should have 16GB of RAM, then a PS4 Spec 3 releasing in 2019 - 2020 should have 32GB or RAM. Then in 2024 the release of the PS5 we should have a device with 128GB of RAM.

Yeah because having 128GB of ram  gives you 0 extra FPS compared to 8GB of ram in a normal budget PC.

16GB is already considered overkill for gaming purposes. We won't go past 16GB for the next 5-10 years. 8GB has been the sweetspot for like +5 years now.

Give it time, RAM requirements will sky rocket soon. As SSD prices fall larger files will start to become more prevalent. You have to have super fast storage in tandem with that amount of RAM, and once the market hss a high enough concentration of super fast storage, you will see this take effect.

8GB is on the very low end at this point. 16GB is pretty much a necessity if you want 4K and multi-tasking. 32GB would be overkill, but it would not be a generational leap. That is why we are seeing these moves from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. There is tech that is worth upgrading to, but it is not enough to move from one platform to another. Thus these spec 2 and possibly spec 3 and 4 platforms will happen.