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Dishonored's lead level designer labels PS4's 8GB RAM "a joy"

When Sony stepped out in New York with the surprise revelation that PlayStation 4 had a whopping 8GB of very fast GDDR5, there were few people more pleased than Dishonored's lead level designer Christophe Carrier.

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alousow4067d ago

big joy. let see some results at E3

SantistaUSA4067d ago

Wonders has been done with consoles that only have 512MB! Imagine what dev will be able to accomplish now. I'm interested to see open world games :-)

DonteDemonSlayer4067d ago

Keep in mind Santista that 8GB does not guarantee that the games will utilize all of it. A large amount of it will go to running the OS and social features, probably leaving a little room for future upgrades (The PS3 failed to foresee the importance of cross game chat, and had no left over RAM for future improvements).
SONY could also decide to make the use of the social features optional, but that means that developers would have to choose to include cross game chat, or in game music. Akin to the Vita in which some games the developer can choose to have those disabled to put more power into the actual game (Gravity Rush/Ninja Gaiden both lack the ability to use music and online features in game).

SantistaUSA4067d ago

@DonteDemonSlayer

I'm completely aware that the games won't be able to use the 8GB of GDDR5, I don't how much it will be available for just game, but I'm thinking dev will be able to use up to 5GB and the other 3GB will be for the OS, social features and recording game play etc. Still this is a HUGE jump from 512MB ;-)

nosferatuzodd4067d ago

Indeed look at what was created on 512 mb of ram heavy rain god of war gt5 uncharted gears of war,now can you imagine whats to come damn it i cant wait

Gorilla_Killa_X4067d ago (Edited 4067d ago )

And those games didn't even use the full 512 mb due to the os of the ps3.

Muffins12234067d ago

3 to 2 gb's will be used for the ios and 5 to 6 will be used for the game :D

colonel1794067d ago

Didn't they say that the OS and everything that had to do with it (background downloading, in game OS, in game chat, upload videos, streaming, etc) would be handled by another chip entirely; leaving the 8 GB of RAM only for the games.

NewMonday4067d ago

the info available says the PS4 OS will just need 500m of RAM, the talk about 3g of RAM is for the Durango.

hesido4067d ago (Edited 4067d ago )

@colonel179: The processing will be handled by other chips, not the RAM. The 8GB GDDR5 will be the only ram available on the PS4 for all these tasks, but there will probably be a small amount of Flash ROM for BIOS. Those tasks will need quite a bit of memory, and it would be illogical for them to have their own RAM, as the PS3 has massive amount of RAM anyway.

I am expecting they will reserve 1GB for the OS in the beginning to be on the safe side, launch titles won't probably even use half of the total RAM. Then they will surely be reducing the OS footprint immensely, even down to 512MB's during the life-cycle of PS3.

PS4isKing_824067d ago

Exactly. Games like watch dogs and future gta games will be brain melting beautiful. Next gen can't come soon enough!

DigitalSmoke4067d ago

3 gig for the Ps3 OS?
Not by a long shot, this isn't a windows desktop you know, 1.2 gig max, but i personaly believe it won't even go over 600MB.

SephirothX214066d ago (Edited 4066d ago )

Windows 7 64 bit uses 2gb ram so I can't see PS4 os taking up more than 1gb but will probably be less than 1gb or there is serious inefficient coding.

Irishguy954066d ago (Edited 4066d ago )

The fact that those games where only on 512MB shows how unimportant Ram is in Video games. Of course you need Ram. But having an overabundance of it will not magically improve the important parts of the system. GPU - CPU.

princejb1344066d ago

Do you guys really think the OS will consume so much ram?
Our current consoles (not wii u) have 512 mb of ram
This 512 is split for the OS and game
So the ps4 will use a max of 1 gig for the OS
So 7gig goes into gaming which is more than enough

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miyamoto4067d ago (Edited 4067d ago )

RAM it, baby!
RAM it hard!
16 million times!

Gamer19824066d ago

As a level designer we are struggling against memory every day. We cut things, we remove things, we strip things, we split the levels, we remove NPCs from levels because there's not enough memory.

And even the PC versions were cut to ribbons.. I'm excited as a PC gamer as consoles will make PC gaming better. Yet PC gamers "other than myself" complain about them..

-Falaut-4066d ago (Edited 4066d ago )

"as consoles will make PC gaming better", one of the smartest and truest things I have read in awhile good sir.

Highlife4067d ago

Not sure what else he could say

deep_fried_bum_cake4067d ago

That would be an interesting article. "My cat Mittens clearly doesn't have 8GB of GDDR5 RAM because he treats me like a stranger every time I see him."

Shadow Flare4067d ago

Shigeru Miyamoto had to take his cat to the vet because it was severely bottle necked

Walker4067d ago

PS4 is gonna be most powerful console game of next-generation !

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baldulf4067d ago

So, Dishonored 2 for PS4 confirmed?

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mkis0075h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows905h ago(Edited 5h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19893h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw5h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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