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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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alousow4081d ago

big joy. let see some results at E3

SantistaUSA4081d 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 :-)

DonteDemonSlayer4081d 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).

SantistaUSA4081d 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 ;-)

nosferatuzodd4081d 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_X4080d ago (Edited 4080d ago )

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

Muffins12234080d ago

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

colonel1794080d 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.

NewMonday4080d ago

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

hesido4080d ago (Edited 4080d 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_824080d ago

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

DigitalSmoke4080d 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.

SephirothX214080d ago (Edited 4080d 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.

Irishguy954080d ago (Edited 4080d 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.

princejb1344080d 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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miyamoto4081d ago (Edited 4081d ago )

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

Gamer19824080d 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-4080d ago (Edited 4080d ago )

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

Highlife4081d ago

Not sure what else he could say

deep_fried_bum_cake4081d 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 Flare4081d ago

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

Walker4081d ago

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

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baldulf4081d ago

So, Dishonored 2 for PS4 confirmed?

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XiNatsuDragnel1d 4h ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

ApocalypseShadow16h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

OtterX12m ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

Tody_za5m ago(Edited 5m ago)

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?