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John Carmack, Frostbite 2 tech director, Crytek, and Gearbox endorse PS4 spec
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Yes. It means a reference point used for comparison. Do you?
Bits are so 90s, it's all about RAM now.
iamshadowlark
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SniperHunter
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8 gb gddr5 blew me away. Great to see the devs are happy
Carmack doesn't have shit to prove. Rage looked great and ran well on consoles.
Mark Rein is always stoked.
This is reminding me of all the people who made fun of megatextures because they didn't know what they actually did.
The Atticus
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iLLmaticV3
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A Carmack co-sign is all I need to be reassured.
oldergamer
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This sounds to me more like people having a subtle confirmation that they pressured Sony to add more memory.
The_Player
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Good lord, dark times have come if you have to explain such an obvious thing to people.
SniperHunter
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Btw i highly recommend, the masters of doom. Fantastic book on Carmack and Romero
I disagree. Baseline is often used as the "recommended" or "medium" point against which another point may be judged to be above, equal or below. But it's not necessarily so, it just means a point used as a reference, so there can be a minimum baseline too.
Here is a random example I just found:
http://www.precisiontranslationtools.com/products/hardware-requirements-domt-lite/
BruceLeeRoy
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Even before they announced 8GB all we were hearing was a lot of happy devs over PS4. I bet this just sent them over the moon
Quicksilver4648
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So, with the PS4 and most likely the next Xbox both having 8GB RAM (though, maybe at different speeds) it is safe to assume that the Recommended Specs for PC games will be soon be 8GB as well? Every new console generation typically brings a healthy jump in specs for hardware across all platforms.
Chiaroscuro
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I thought the rumor was always that the next Xbox has 8GB of RAM. The type of RAM is the question. It was not GDDR5. I hope they changed it.
Dictator93
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PC memory is split into pools like it was on the PS3. How this will effect he PC space is uncertain. More than likely is that video mem requirements will go up... but the recommended amounts of main system RAM will be similar as they always ahve been
dragonelite
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If they want to be competitive with playstation 4 on the gaming the have too.
But if they dont want to compete on the gaming front then well good knowing you microsoft imo. Gonna wait what friends are going too buy.
2.5D and 3D stacking maybe and new memory board where gpu and cpu can use one pool.
Im not even sure that will be possible without new memoryboard designs.
I'm not sure John Carmack does what some of you people think he does.
Off-topic: What kind of a tasteless gif is this? This isn't cool on any level IMO.
I agree, there are better ways to dust off her hair.
Mr.Wreckless
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Its just a clip from a movie or tv show, why isnt it cool? I see gifs of heads exploding here all the time.
I admire his Carmack's work with tech in the past but I wasn't sold at all on the megatexture tech. There was a absolute ton of sacrifice on consoles to get it runnning in 60 fps. There was an incredible amount of texture pop in on PS3...like worse than the absolute worst UE3 game. Everything did look really varied in towns and in the (worthless) open world though so I guess. Kudos to Sony for admitting that the Cell architecture was a mistake though. This might hopefully enable easier development for first parties and third parties alike as well as enable a path for BC moving forward so they don't need to rely on a streaming solution.
Yes, sir.
Snkfanatic
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Awesome news!
Fried Food
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It's amazing how reassuring Carmack's words are.
mckmas8808
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She was under the influence and was being difficult.
Thug Waffle
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Don't threaten me with a good time. That game would be amazing.
Sorry to derail and I wasn't trying to be cool. It's a gif that I find humorous honestly. Not because it portrays some sort of machismo sexist abuse or anything, but because it is absolutely silly in its portrayal of one person setting another straight. I found it a pretty fitting response and apologize if you're offended instead of humored.
Again sorry to derail.
I will add to the discussion that anytime you have developer endorsement it's a good sign. Additionally, anytime you have John Carmack's endorsement, it's an incredibly good sign. The man doesn't mince words or speak untruths when talking about hardware and capability. Bringing subjective opinions on game design, story, etc. for projects that he has worked on seems a little out of place in regards to this topic as we are strictly speaking about hardware specs.
Don't tease me.
I'm sorry if it seemed like I was attacking you. I just saw a gif of a man slapping a woman, and well yeah...
eot
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Quake V Arena on consoles would be horrible (sorry).
The reason shooters work (to the degree that they do) on controllers is because they've abandoned everything Q3A was. There are a few console versions of Q3 and they all play horribly because it's a game designed for kb/m. If they bastardize its sequel by designing it for a controller I'll be plenty upset.
Check out the gttv post event show. Mark Rein was so giddy I thought he might jump out of his seat.
What else is PS4 hiding?
The actual console.
smokeandmirrors
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A large portion of this forum have no freaking clue about most of the technological side of things. The 'Carmack has things to prove' is icing on the cake.
And he doesn't spout bullshit either so he's someone you can actually believe.
Pretty much. There is no downplaying this.