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Chazore said:

JEMC said:

I've read a wild, but not too ridiculous, theory about those specs. On one hand, it's possible that Sony and the studios that handle the ports of its exclusive games simply suck when it comes to optimizing for PC, resulting in games with ridiculously high demands.

On the other hand, the theory is that Sony is pressuring its studios and partners to put up these stupidly high PC requirements to make the PS5 looks more powerful than it really is (the old look what kind of PC you need to play this game that runs perfectly fine on our cheaper console), with the secondaly intention of trying to attrack PC gamers to its console.

It's wild, I know, but so are those requirements.

I mean, either of those sound extremely plausible from Sony's side, because even though they are now wanting that PC money, they still ultimately want you to buy a PS5 and lock yourself into their already dominant console ecosystem, so making either poor ports or stupidly high hw demands ends up making their console specs more enticing for those undecided.

Like all this does for me really is to just not buy the game and wait another 5 yrs till it's dirt cheap and I have a new rig, instead of day 1, because their hw req's are becoming whack over time. I waited nearly 2yrs for HZD, primarily due to it's pricing and poor perf metrics, and Days Gone I waited half a year because of it's pricing, but heard it wasn't as bad as HZD, perf wise.

It's just weird seeing only a tine handful asking for 16gb, when literally no one else out there, even indie-dev wise, are asking for a fat 16gb in it's entirety.

I think Sony should have to bear the burden of proof and show us what that 16gb gets us, and not some 30 sec fluff trailer video either. 

That's the job of the reviewers, not Sony. The likes of Digital Foundry or Techpowerup that check how the games perform are the ones that have to check is those games really need that much RAM or not.