Chark said:
Zkuq said: Is it 4 GB for both the system and the GPU or the system only? It's just barely enough if the former, but it's nowhere near enough it it's shared with the GPU. |
For the system. How is that not enough? Are you thinking on PC terms because RAM is much more utilized in a console than in a PC. PS3 and 360 only have 512MB and Wii U has only 2GB.
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I'm not thinking on PC terms, I'm thinking on future terms. Sony is probably aiming for a long generation again and if that's the case, 4 GB will be too little by the end. 512 MB is just barely enough for now but 256 MB (what PS3 has; the other 256 MB is for the GPU only) is not enough. Sure, talented devs will be able to put it to good use but it'll take a big effort and then you get stuff like Bethesda's games anyway. Also, as I understand it, you say that 4 GB isn't shared with the GPU but then I have a couple of questions: 1) Does it say somewhere how much memory the GPU has? 2) It says 'unified system memory' for RAM so, pardon my ignorance, what might it mean then?