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| TranceformerFX said: 8 for games, and 8 for the OS is likely. |
That means the Playstation 5 will have less Ram for games than the Xbox One X. - You didn't think this hypothesis out did you?
| TranceformerFX said: Anyone that thinks Sony's PS5 RAM will exceed 16GB is nuts, it may even be 12GB. |
12GB is possible on a 192/384-bit memory bus.
However... The thing you aren't taking into account is that 2020 is still a few years away.
GDDR6 is still ramping up, it has increased density over GDDR5 and GDDR5X.
That means that the same amount of chips it would take to have 16GB of GDDR5, would give you 32GB of GDDR6.
| TranceformerFX said: The technology that will be in question, and what is likely being discussed at Sony's HQ right now - is the HDD space. We've all seen first hand that the One X has a clear hard drive space problem, and Sony probably doesn't want the same conundrum for the PS5. They'll either introduce a Cloud Storage service for a players' game library, or they'll mass produce officially licensed external HD's in various sizes (2, 4, 6, 8 TB) with the ability to use a pre-existing external HD that you own at launch. My guess? They'll probably introduce a cloud storage service, while slightly increasing PS Plus membership fees because of such. |
Microsoft has made a small effort to rectify the lack-of-space issue by negating the requirement for localized audio to be installed/downloaded with various hooks in the software stacks. However not all developers have taken that up, which sucks.
Compression could also be improved, perhaps next gen there might be a dedicated hardware block on the SoC tasked for decompression duties?
Hard Drives are still getting bigger, 4 Terabytes is the same price as 2 Terabytes from just a couple years ago.
Cloud Storage can go get stuffed IMHO.
At the moment I have 9 Terabytes worth of storage on my Xbox One X, which is a good 60% full.
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