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setsunatenshi on 03 November 2016
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haqqaton said:
setsunatenshi said:

wow what a nice hypothetical you have there mate...

if the cartridge memory would be as fast as RAM, it would be called RAM.

if my mom had balls she would be my dad

if my gramma had wheels she would be a skateboard

etc...

So again, to sum it up, no, the game being on CD, DVD, Bluray, Cartridge, digital download, HDD, SSD, cloud or whatever else you can come up with, it will have literally no impact on the RAM usage during the game itself.

The fact that you even try to muddle the waters with the reply you did is simply disingenuous and will keep leading some people to confusion.

English is not my first language but I'll try to explain one more time. I hope to be more clear this time.

The RAM is just a cache for a slower memory. As the primary memory gets faster (CD, DVD, HDD, etc.), you will need less RAM to be used as a cache.

For example, the main reason some games installs on PS4 and XONE is to use the console HDD as a "cache". They move some data to a faster memory. 

What I tried with my last sentence was to show that the importance of the size of the RAM is dependent of the speed of your main memory source. In this way, having a faster media to read on (cartridges) means less importance of the RAM as a cache.

I'm not saying that in NS the size of the RAM is not important but that it is less important than in an optical disc-ed console.

You said that the RAM has nothing to do with the media used. It has. That's is my only point.
                               

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/ram.htm

"Because information is accessed randomly instead of sequentially like it is on a CD or hard drive, the computer can access the data much faster. However, unlike ROM or the hard drive, RAM is a volatile memory and requires power to keep the data accessible. If the computer is turned off, all data contained in RAM is lost."

Now, english is not my first language either, but what I was correcting here was not your english, only your conflation of storage media with RAM.

To the point in question, it matters 0% what type of cards the media is stored in relation to the RAM needed. The only thing a faster SD Card or SSD will do is lower (possibly) load times in games and other aplications. To put it in other words, the RAM usage in my computer when I'm playing Battlefield 1 will be the same, regardless if the game is installed on my HDD or SSD, only the game will lauch much faster if I'm playing from the SSD.