Alby_da_Wolf said:
curl-6 said:
This isn't the first gen where consoles had different amounts of RAM, or just significantly different specs in general. In the 6th gen Xbox had 64MB while Gamecube had 40MB and PS2 just 32MB. In the second half of the 8th gen games had to scale all the way from Xbox One X and PS4 Pro down to the base Xbox One. |
What you say is true, but this gen there is one thing that changed: until 8th gen even base models had a huge RAM size increase compared to previous gen.
But this gen full specced models offer a big, not huge increase, and XS base model offers an increase quite small, smaller than the typical mid-life RAM upgrade anyone would do to their PC. And PC-console multiplats are more than in the past, and since PC gaming dropped DOS, with PC development comes the developers attitude to put less work than in the past on RAM usage optimisation. |
The amount of RAM is less crucial on 9th gen consoles due to the SSDs being able to accommodate a lot of the stuff that used to be done in RAM on older hardware, and since XSS has the same SSD as the X, it still shouldn't really hold back the X or PS5, especially when things like textures and resolution can be easily lowered to save memory.
