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thismeintiel on 09 September 2016
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Zekkyou said:
Soundwave said:

I think MS should move up to 12GB to really push their advantage further. Gonna be hard for PS4 devs to make enough hoops to jump through to make up for 4GB less RAM. If PS4 could have 8GB in 2013, 12GB should be doable for the same price or less in 2017. 

I doubt that'd have much of an effect on PS4 development. Certainly not in the time-frame such an advantage would be relevant, anyway. The overwhelming majority of the market (all version of the PS4, and both the base and S version of the X1) would still be working with 8GB. Developers aren't going to do anything with the 12GB that they can't conveniently scale down to all the other versions.

Personally, I think some of these guys are going to be disappointed when the specs are announced for the Scorpio if they are building it up this much.  Things like using a Zen CPU + 12GB of RAM + a more powerful than 6 Tflops GPU.  Considering MS are basically doing the same thing as Sony, keeping Scorpio pretty much in the same family as the XBO as far as games are concerned, with only VR games being exclusive.  I think what it will end up being is basically a PS4 Pro, but with a 5.8-6 Tflops GPU instead of a 4.2 one.  I don't see it switching CPUs, but if it does, it won't be anything drastic.  Changing too much is going to make playing the same games a little more difficult.