128gb PS5? Is it a possibility?

[Dgc1808]

4lc0h0l said:

He is talking pricewise. It amazes me that people say that mobile phones now have 8GB so that automatically means that console will have a lot more than that... Have you seen the price of those mobile phones?, the ones that have that amount of ram?

Prices of phones have skyrocketed in last couple of years. So if your fine with consoles being 700-800+ dollars with 32GB, which doesn't even make sense, because the hardware wont be able to use all that RAM.... Of course you can load everything to ram but thats just a stupid use of it and wont translate into any appreciable gains... When you are not constrained by ram, having more ram just doesn't make sense... ram is not the holy grail and it's really expensive these days.

I think 16GB is more than enough and personally cant see it going over 24GB which is already kinda overkill for gaming.

Well.... in their defense... PS4 came out at the end of 2013. In that year we had the HTC One, Samsung Galaxy S4, iPhone 5/s, and Nexus 5.

HTC One had 2GB of ram at $600usd
iPhone 5 had 1GB of ram at $649usd
Galaxy S4 had 2GB of ram at $650usd
Nexus5 had 2GB of ram at $400usd.

Yet PS4 releases same year with 8GB GDDR5 + 256MB DDR3. 4x the ram of the beefiest flagship and at the cost of the cheapest one. 
My OnePlus 5t has 6GB of ram and I got it for $450 (student discount pricing) last year. The 8gb model was an extra $60 i believe. It's reasonable to think Sony can do much better in terms of GB/$.

There's a lot that also goes into those phones that we forget to count like the constantly changing assembly line, faster pace R&D, water-proofing, certifications, smaller form factor, royalties and anything else that's more costly due to yearly releases.

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Last edited by Dgc1808 - on 20 October 2018