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[Mxrz]

Good grief. It is almost unbelievable. Its like Kaz reads Neogaf, saw all the memory threads, and went "I'll give you fucking ram. . ."

How the hell are PC ports going to work? No one is rocking 8GB of GDDR5.

 

[Zoe]

8GB of GDDR5 was indeed the big "holy fucking shit!!!" moment of the presentation. The fuck can they possibly do with all that memory?

Looking at all of the background stuff, I wonder how much of it is actually usable to developers.

 

[i-Lo]

StevieP, Proelite, Thuway, BruceleeRoy etc..... where is your 4GB now?

Joking aside, I wonder how much would be actually available for games development.

 

[tapedeck]

I thought MAYBE theyd bump up to 6 GBs of GDDR5...but they said fuck that weak shit and went balls out. Just hope they can keep the system cool and the price down.

Imagine GT6, MLB The Show, Uncharted...faces will fucking melt.

 

[strafer]

So with 8 gb ram what can we expect? bigger levels? more enemies?

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

It's unified so it's not just for the GPU anyway. Honestly with consoles lasting 7+ years you can never have too much ram to start with.

Here we go with shit now. :lol

 

[Lonely1]

599... Surprising to say the least.

 

[gdt]

I'm very happy with what I heard from the conference. We will get more information on games later, I'm not worried about that. What I'm worried about is the pricing. I have a bad feeling Sony is going to be the most expensive console again. If it is Sony has no chance of chipping away from XBox consumer base.

I couldn't care less who's base they chip at......I'll pay for 8gb of ram no problem.

 

[VariantX]

I said "wat" out loud when he dropped this info. This is nuts. The price though....

I'll buy it at whatever price though.

I actually let out an audible "FFFFUUUUuuuu" myself

 

[Majanew]

You didn't let me down, Sony. Day 1. I'm there with you, Day 1.

 

[Pistolero]

God damn were we off!

I never in a million years thought we were getting more than 4GB of GDDR5 I just never thought that.

As people have said based on how off we were about these spec's Microsoft could very definitely have a much more powerful machine than we know because right now after this:

PS4 >>> Durango

Well, the fact that everybody was wrong regarding PS4 RAM (except for EDGE) makes me question the leaks concerning Durango (althought VGLeaks was right on the money on both the CPU and GPU account).

 

[Tagg9]

He also said 2Tflops.

Did he? When was this?...

 

[1cmanny1]

Can the OP say what this means for people that have no idea?

I don't know why is everyone is excited.

 

[Zombie James]

How much is GDDR5 per GB?

 

[TheOddOne]

 

[dragonelite]

Hey guys do you remember when the console was supposed to have 2GB of total memory?

And we should be happy if we even got that...

 

[Biggzy]

8GB of GDDR5 was indeed the big "holy fucking shit!!!" moment of the presentation. The fuck can they possibly do with all that memory?

To put it into context, you can fit most games from this gen inside the RAM.

 

[Glorified G]

He also said 2Tflops.

He said "close". Which confirms some of the rumors of 1.84tflop

 

[Violater]

I believe this is needed

Now where's the bird?

Lol came for this

 

[Iacobellis]

So with 8 gb ram what can we expect? bigger levels? more enemies?

You're gonna see more moves.

 

[Log4Girlz]

StevieP, Proelite, Thuway, BruceleeRoy etc..... where is your 4GB now?

Joking aside, I wonder how much would be actually available for games development.

Minimum 6 I bet.

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

He said "close". Which confirms some of the rumors of 1.84tflop

Yes you're right. I'm just hyped. =)

 

[goomba]

Good move kaz. I'm especially glad that I won't have to read fanboys debate between 8 GB DDR3 or 4GB GDDR5

 

[Reiko]

StevieP, Proelite, Thuway, BruceleeRoy etc..... where is your 4GB now?

Joking aside, I wonder how much would be actually available for games development.

Remember the 100% sure posts? lol

 

[grimshawish]

So with 8 gb ram what can we expect? bigger levels? more enemies?

Neither of these. It'll probably mean easy ports and better performance.

Watch Dogs looked damn rough though.

 

[kutthoat5150]

looks like ill be making the switch to ps4 if durango doesn't deliver, dam i'm going to miss that controller though

 

[quickwhips]

I think I might switch next gen from xbox to PS if Xbox doesn't bring it when they announce. I missed most of the show did he specifically say 8 GB GDDR5 if so can somoene link to it yet?

 

[EMT0]

This was, by far, Sony's biggest bomb. This was a great day for the Playstation.

Iwata: *stops laughing*

 

[Kukuk]

I think it's really interesting that when it was thought to be 4GB of GDDR5, there was a lot of talk that PS4 still might have the advantage, if MS is indeed using DDR3. I'm having a hard time comprehending just what kind of glorious results we'll see if the specs on the new Xbox turn out to be true. We might finally see multiplatform games looking better on a Sony console for the first time ever.

 

[dmr87]

Sony bringing the hardware, love it. Dat Kutaragi magic.

 

[ape2man]

what is the price of 8gb gddr5

 

[Xplatformer]

Holy shit, GDDR5.

I'm wondering about the price of this thing. Holy shit.

Still cheaper than the upcoming high end Nvidia cards.

I love consoles.

 

[Salaadin]

Price wise...what does this do?

 

[VariantX]

what is the price of 8gb gddr5

Your first born.

 

[Slime]

I wasn't impressed by any of the games, and while the system features were cool, most of them were expected.

But this...this is a big deal. Nice one, Sony.

 

[Schweinehund]

So with 8 gb ram what can we expect? bigger levels? more enemies?

As I understand it ram is pretty important when it comes to holding more/larger textures, so we'll see improved details or more detail on the screen at once.

 

[Plinko]

Neither of these. It'll probably mean easy ports and better performance.

Watch Dogs looked damn rough though.

Confirmed by Ubi rep to be running on PC.

 

[startyourengine]

just release it sony, day 1 day 1

 

[Brad Grenz]

That sound you here was Durango's last leg being kicked out from under it.

 

[Izick]

Does this at least possibly hint that a legit 10 year cycle is possible or still not yet?

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

Where is this from?

 

[Dmax3901]

Someone feel like PMing me a brief explanation for why this is such a big deal? What will it allow consoles to do that they couldn't do before? etc

 

[Alucrid]

The PS3 will have more ram than my desktop.

 

[spats]

Beastly. I bet this is all Mark Cerny's doing.

 

[quickwhips]

looks like ill be making the switch to ps4 if durango doesn't deliver, dam i'm going to miss that controller though

Thats what saddens me I really hate the DualShock I hope someone makes a 360ish controller if I do switch.

 

[Krilekk]

No they really can't.

The dev kits specs are well and truly locked if they want an autumn release this year.

You mean like those PS4 devkit specs with 4 GB RAM? All the 720 specs are from a document that is more than one year old. Of course thing's have changed since and it's no big deal to switch from 8 GB RAM to 12 or even 16. Actually going to 16 GB DDR3 would be much cheaper than going from 4 GB GDDR5 to 8.

 

[Row]

Price wise...what does this do?

keep your second job

 

[Log4Girlz]

So with 8 gb ram what can we expect? bigger levels? more enemies?

Bigger, more detailed levels, more characters with again, more detail. The big thing about having lots of RAM is having high detail assets easily accessible by the GPU. With enough RAM you can easily stream large levels with sumptuous detail in every nook and cranny.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

what is the price of 8gb gddr5

I am a total layman but when I look for DDR5 ram and I see video cards out there with 1gig of it and they cost $200, I worry. I know Sony will eat a lot of the cost, but how much can they eat?

 

[Windom Earle]

It's confirmed in the specs sheet as well now: http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf
editosted already, sry.

This will produce some insane first party stuff and better looking multiplatform titles. GPU is also very capable.