Playstation 4 is the "perfect gaming PC"

[shadowfox]

He said most PCs not most gamers, two very different things.

That may be true, but their target market isn't your average salaryman who is using his PC for Word Docs and Excel Spreadsheets. Granted there are probably plenty of gamers who still run 32-bit system, but I'll wager it isn't anywhere near the majority.

If it was an applications developer saying this, I'd go meh, whatever, but a game developer should really have a much better grasp of what's happening in the industry.

[HavocXphere]

Hehe. You okes are misunderstanding him. Epic knows exactly whats cooking - they always have & always will.

He is not talking about *average* he is talking about the lowest common denominator. He is excited about the fact that he can write code that assumes there will be at the very least 8GB of RAM. It has a massive effect on the design of the game engines & hence Epic is excited. Plus its GDDR5 RAM which is pretty neat too...

Last I checked the PS4 is using unified GPU/RAM and a semi-modified APU so they will juggle between GPU RAM and system RAM a lot.

Both the GPU and CPU utilize the same 8gb of GDRR5. They might still end up shuffling data between the designated GPU portion of it & the CPU portion, but how that split (if any) is implemented is too early to tell.

PS4 will def fly. Just the raw specs are quite powerful & thats without even accounting for the fact that it'll have the benefit of upscaling too.

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he is excited about the fact that he can write code that assumes there will be at the very most 8gb of ram.

ftfy

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