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TimCliveroller on 13 April 2013

bla bla bla... cell



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Dgc1808 on 13 April 2013

I'm still expecting a 2/6 split. That's just me, though.



4 ≈ One

S.T.A.G.E. on 13 April 2013
PayaV87 said:
ethomaz said:
enditall727 said:
How much ram did the ps3 need for the OS?

In the beggining 120MB... after the new devkit update in 2010... 50MB.

70MB of additional RAM unlocked for PS3 developers

And yes... games like Uncharted 2 was made with less than 400MB RAM.

I just had a tear, when I was thinking about that 400 MB of awesomeness.

My favorite game of all time. I can't wait to see, what Naughty Dog does with 7 GB of RAM.


I just filled the cup thinking about what Sony first party will do with the 7GB of ram. OMGoogle!



the2real4mafol on 13 April 2013

This will be more than enough for most developers. They will struggle to use all of it. It's no wonder they put a livestream feature in now and stuff like video chat. Hopefully, the OS in game is super fast, it's too slow on PS3 at times



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S.T.A.G.E. on 13 April 2013

Uncharted next gen will stop being linear. With all that ram they can make huge spaces for Drake to roam around and increase the length of gameplay.



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fillet on 13 April 2013
the2real4mafol said:
This will be more than enough for most developers. They will struggle to use all of it. It's no wonder they put a livestream feature in now and stuff like video chat. Hopefully, the OS in game is super fast, it's too slow on PS3 at times


at time? More like all the time!

XMB is great in design - love it compared to NXE on the Xbox 360, it just runs like a dog when anything is loaded.

That's a bit OT though.

As someone said earlier...

I'm expecting a 6GB/2GB split or possibly even more in favour of the OS and additional background tasks.



VGKing on 13 April 2013
walsufnir said:
fillet said:
RAM doesn't make graphics, limitation of RAM makes it harder to make games with free flowing open play without constant loading screens.

You could put 100GB of RAM in a calculator, it's still a calculator.

It's great news about the 8GB of RAM in the PS4 but some members here don't seem to grasp what that actually means.

I thing I have to comment on this, not saying anything counterwise.

The ram-talk on this site is getting ridiculous to me.

The problem with ram is one thing: if you have ram that isn't sufficient a game will suffer.

If Sony had built ps4 with 4 gb of whatever ram you can imagine it would have still suffered of being less than 8 gb than nextbox. I know that ppl would have argued that the speed of gddr5 would make it still better but that nonsense. It is always the size of ram which is really making a difference, not necessarily the bandwidth which is only one side of the medal of truth. Less ram can't be bought on "sideways". It would be true if you build a system of 8 gb ram with ps/2-fp-ram, but that's not going to happen. The combination of bandwidth and latency is crucial for performance is crucial, yes. But that's it, because ram only serves the computational units.

Because of the big amounts of ram gives devs the opportunity to build games we can all look forward to. No matter if DDR3 or GDDR5.

I'm 50/50 with you on this one. While I agree that amount of RAM matters more than bandwidth, both are important. You can't really say that 4GB of GDDR5 would be inferior to 8GB of DDR3. It really depends on the game. 



fillet on 13 April 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
PayaV87 said:
ethomaz said:
enditall727 said:
How much ram did the ps3 need for the OS?

In the beggining 120MB... after the new devkit update in 2010... 50MB.

70MB of additional RAM unlocked for PS3 developers

And yes... games like Uncharted 2 was made with less than 400MB RAM.

I just had a tear, when I was thinking about that 400 MB of awesomeness.

My favorite game of all time. I can't wait to see, what Naughty Dog does with 7 GB of RAM.


I just filled the cup thinking about what Sony first party will do with the 7GB of ram. OMGoogle!


Go and check out some old nfo intros done using less than 100kb of RAM and prepare to buy yourself a new wardrobe then.



S.T.A.G.E. on 13 April 2013
the2real4mafol said:
This will be more than enough for most developers. They will struggle to use all of it. It's no wonder they put a livestream feature in now and stuff like video chat. Hopefully, the OS in game is super fast, it's too slow on PS3 at times


They will use all of it by the time the gen is over. The Witcher 2 used 3GB of ram on PC.



ethomaz on 13 April 2013
S.T.A.G.E. said:
the2real4mafol said:
This will be more than enough for most developers. They will struggle to use all of it. It's no wonder they put a livestream feature in now and stuff like video chat. Hopefully, the OS in game is super fast, it's too slow on PS3 at times


They will use all of it by the time the gen is over. The Witcher 2 used 3GB of ram on PC.

I expect a huge increase in RAM use in PC now that consoles have more RAM too... PC games will finally move ahead from Crysis in 2007.