Portugeezer
Gold Member
Doesn't matter that it's not a PC, 512MB would be too low. 360/PS3 have pushed that amount of memory to the limits, we need more.chaosblade said:You people are either crazy or don't know what you're talking about. Fake or otherwise, 512MB system RAM would be great. This is not a PC. It's not going to be doing much multitasking, it's not going to be running a massive Windows OS. It's going to run a small OS that will probably have 32-64MB reserved, and the rest is for nothing but games. Combined with 1GB GDDR5, that's perfect for a next-gen console, and honestly, it's about what I would expect the PS4/360 to have a year later.
If Nintendo doesn't go with unified RAM, it's more likely they would have like 256MB system RAM and 768MB video RAM. 512MB/1GB would really surprise me.
Also yes PC does more than games, but a lot of the memory goes to pagefile or whatever. Games like Crysis uses about 1.5GB's of main memory, many PC games us more these days, a lot more. (and this is how much it actually uses, not system requirements!)