Digital Foundry's take on the final confirmed spec, the capabilities of the hardware - and the surprise 8GB announcement.
IGN: "If our two-hour hands-on preview is any indication of the rest of the game, then Visions of Mana's fresh take on battle and class systems not only gives it the potential to meet the success of the originals but possibly even the chance to surpass them."
It's balancing old and new, then, and embracing a sort of breezy retro simplicity. Pleasing as that is, though, it so far feels a little shallow by comparison to other genre heavy-hitters. Despite moving to an open world and offering sumptuous presentation, Visions of Mana clings to the past and lacks truly fresh ideas of its own. It's a welcome return and a fun, bubbly, frivolous experience, but the Mana series looks set to remain in the shadow of Square Enix's premiere franchises for now.
Hopes are high as Open Roads allows us to take in a Game Pass, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC road trip.
If you read the whole article, this confirms the PS4 games shown were developed with a less capable hardware in mind, and look what they pulled! I really can't imagine how the next wave of games will be!
Next-next-gen !
Edit: even some of Sony first party studios didn't know about the 8 GB of GDDR5:
https://twitter.com/mrengst...
Wow, I m extremely impressed with the PS4's hardware capabilities.
In this article i read One things that caught my attention.
I did not know Sony have to order hardware components(ram) a couple years in advance to guarantee that they get total amount ordered.
I was thinking more like a couple of months/one years.
So that leave me to believe that Microsoft is stuck with what they ordered hardware wise. If true... 8 GB DDR3 is not going to cut it.
Ps4's 8 GDDR5 is going to mangle the 720's 8 GB DDR3 in term of power/data bandwidth/speed.
I don't understand all of this talk about PlayStation as a game console , and XBox as an entertainment hub ect ect. Correct me if I'm wrong but Sony did both better than Microsoft with PS3, and look to do the same with the PS4.
Any word about how many GHz the CPU is running on?
And also, can anyone provide information about how the RAM works? It have 8GB of GDDR5 but how many DDR of RAM is using?