Outlast Developer: We’ll Be Taking Advantage Of The PS4′s GDDR5 RAM, Will Have Exciting Features

GamingBolt recently interviewed Philippe Morin, co-founder of Red Barrels, the development team behind the upcoming survival horror game Outlast.GamingBolt asked several questions about the PS4 version of Outlast to Philippe and he assured us that it will have ‘exciting’ features.

[Pisque]

But since RAM doesn't matter for videogames, I hope he has better ideas

[Mr_Nuts]

Considering developers have been moaning on all this gen for better RAM...they better bloody take advantage of it.

[malokevi]

It will take advantage of it? By that he must mean that the game will in some way and in some capacity use the systems RAM.

Thats cra-z! I've never played a game that uses RAM before... :D

[malokevi]

Well thats not very nice!!!

And now, you've lost me. RAM? Used in videogames? Exqueez me? Baking powder?

[I_am_Batman]

"I've never played a game that uses RAM before"

Well than you probably never played a game.

Seriously why are you here?

[die_fiend]

Is that a joke? Or are you?

[die_fiend]

And to you I say...I don't think people realise you're a wind-up merchant!

XB1 = Head of Xbox getting dafuq outta there before that hideous bomb is dropped

[mp1289]

Coming out on pc/ps4, i have a feeling we ll be seeing more of that

[wishingW3L]

you forgot the sarcasm tag. /s

[MysticStrummer]

"RAM doesn't matter for videogames"

Not according to the multiple developers who helped design PS4.

I'd say nice try at trolling, but it wasn't really.

[malokevi]

"Not according to the multiple developers who helped design PS4. "

^^^evidence of my success, thanks :)

[JunioRS101]

Who invited that guy?

[quenomamen]

Yea, the Cloud matters much more. Not actual hardware.

[starfox79]

Wow ??? are u going to take avantage of xbox ones cloud,and i dont even think your even developing wiiu,but wiiu's powerful edram cache and edram chip RAM ?????

Is SONY paying people to say these things,system RAM is not a bottleneck when u have HAVOK NEXT GEN compression x10 ?? half a GB on textures is now 5GB,so if wiiu has 1GB and possibly 1.5GB in the future thats 10/15GB with compression......Havok is in every wiiu devkit.

[Smoovekid]

No one is talking about the Wii U, this game is for PS4 and PC.

[starfox79]

All i'm saying is graphics on all 3 will e outstanding once the full power is extracted END OF,when the wiiu's memory intensive design ie tons of edram and edram cache ect,ps4 its system RAM,xbox one it's cloud features for better AI ?

But Sony seems to be going out their way to prep devs to mention the power and RAM too much,while Nintendo stay fairly quiet and actually let gamers play MK8 and all key games ?,for me Sony better show me games that go beyond xbox one and wiiu's best in AI and graphics which i know wont happen but if it does i'll buy a ps4,last time the ps3 was 120fps at FULL HD ? even patcher said ps4 would do this,it's all hype with Sony i just hope they can look noticeably better graphics wise than the competition........or they have digged a very big hole..

Also NERD owned by Nintendo is making cloud features that add more power to wiiu as we speak so it wont just be Microsoft using cloud to enhance graphics and AI ?

http://www.cubed3.com/news/...

Look for yourself.....

[WeAreLegion]

Aliens.

[FlameHawk]

@starfox79 ....wtf

[HammadTheBeast]

Still waiting on the new star fox eh... lol

[Hercules189]

Just ignore these trolls, They really dont know whats all in the xbox one, many devs are praising the cloud and everybody just thinks that they are getting paid. It might not make it 10 times better, but it will help out a bit. Now im no computer expert, but if the devs can put all the ai and other futures on the cloud then they could use most of the 1.6 teraflops just for graphics alone. We have to look at the big picture, ms is in the same position sony was in last gen with using custom parts. All these comparisons from these sites never mention sram or hypervisor or cloud. Its like comparing a custom made Nissan to a Mustang and ignoring all the custom parts that make the nissan faster and just say that the mustang is way better than a stock nissan.

[medman]

Hercules189, any processes offloaded to the cloud are subject to lag, so only non latency dependent functions will be assisted by that process. It will help somewhat but it's not going to make up for the technical deficit that the Xbone is facing versus the PS4.

[PSN_ZeroOnyx]

Read and weep

http://translate.googleuser... http://ene3.pt/ps4-vs-xbox-...

[quenomamen]

Thats right you are no computer expert, you cant put all the AI in the cloud then have the hardware handle the rest cuz then youde be waiting megabytes of information to download then get proccesed. Stop it with the cloud making your underpowered console more poweful, you cant substitute software (the cloud) with actual hardware (RAM, GPU, etc)

[Master-H]

Starfox stop trolling and go play Rayman legends on your beloved Wii U machine , ...ohhh wait.....

[JunioRS101]

dude, read around on the internet, the cloud doesn't do anything 'game changing' at all.

In fact, it merely TECHNICALLY helps, which is what PR directors LOVE LOVE LOVEEEE.

They take the minor uses of cloud computing and throw it to the forefront of the console hardware argument (mind you, they never say it would close the gap or even anything close) in an attempt to win over uneducated gamers.

The truth is, all the computations that will even be used by the cloud will be able to be rendered locally on the ps4's hardware MORE EASILY than the entire cloud process in the first place.

It's a pure PR gimmick, but obviously it has tricked some people who do not understand the feature.

I WISH it turned the Xbox into a supercomputer, because I am a neutral consumer and want the best product, meaning I would be buying the Xbox One if it were capable of delivering equal to or superior graphics than the ps4. BUT, it does NOT work like they 'lawyer speak' about it. Sorry.

[madpuppy]

funny, even when people say "the power of the cloud" it sounds like some made up advertising phrase, you know like how Activia yogourt has "bifidus regularus" in it, which is something everybody has in their gut but, has a completely made up name depending on the company advertising it. and is considered questionable by most authorities as to its claims.

every time I read the phrase I hear it in my head being said by freak of nature magician Doug Henning.

[CGI-Quality]

Uh, Outlast is a PC/PS4-only game.

[theWB27]

Holy crap I'm disappointed. I honestly thought this was coming to the X1 also. My joy meter is preeeetty low at the moment.

[Rusty515]

You can thank Microsoft and their indie polices for that one.

[theWB27]

Yea I didn't know it was indie also. Been following other games alot more closely.

[HammadTheBeast]

You can play on the PC. It's just like Titanfall, if you're on another platform console, just get it on PC. If you can run it that is.

[theWB27]

I don't own a gaming PC. Just a lowly laptop. Don't even know about building one either. Hell I've never even seen a game on high settings in person. But I have been looking into learning and possibly building one of my own. In due time I guess.

[ceedubya9]

My most anticipated game for the PS4 launch.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Really your most anticipated? It doesn't come out at launch anyway.

[ceedubya9]

Ah yes, I mixed up the release of this game with the PC version. :(. Ha, well in that case, it was my most anticipated game but it isn't available at launch. not sure why you got disagrees.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I don't know why I got disagrees either. This site is a cesspool. I'd get disagrees if I said squirrels eat nuts. It's like a sad hobby for people on here.

[killacal13]

cesspool is a funny word, funny bubble for that, I disagree with you because you should respect peoples opinion.

[shibster88]

Starfox is a wii u baby boy who wishes he had a job to buy next gen, bless his cotton socks

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I guess that's what constitutes to an interview these days.

[shibster88]

Killerips spot on there

[EXVirtual]

I think in 2-3 years, a lot of bigger 3rd parties will go fully exclusive to PS4 (or just PC and PS4)with some of their franchises, due to the fact the games just won't be able to run on the Xbone. Japanese devs WILL ditch the Xbone (and most likely go fully exclusive to the PS4 with most of their franchises), like Square Enix after KH3 and FFXV. The Japanese side of Square will at least.

[Prcko]

Possible

[starchild]

That's very unlikely. It wouldn't be the big 3rd party developers in any case. Their games usually have large budgets and they need to have their games on as many platforms as possible in order hopefully turn a profit.

Indie games are much cheaper to make and can take more risks, both creatively and financially. But still, you will generally see a continuation of the trend of more and more games going multiplatform as we saw this generation.

[dcj0524]

I disagree. Games cost more to make than movies now. They need a return of profit and being exclusive makes less money. A japanesr game in japan wont sell on xbox in japan but in the U.S it can sell a acceptable amount.

[evilhasitsway]

ram is essential to games period.