Sat, Mar 09, 2013 | 17:15 GMT

Arkane Studios says PS4′s 8GB of RAM is “a joy”

Dishonored developer Arkane Studios is rather pleased with PS4′s 8GB of GDDR5.

Speaking with Eurogamer at the BAFTA awards, with lead designer Christophe Carrier said this was “a joy,” to hear, as many times developers have to cut content to meet internal memory requirements.

“We need memory, you know? As a level designer we are struggling against memory every day,” he said. “We cut things, we remove things, we strip things, we split the levels, we remove NPCs from levels because there’s not enough memory.

“So knowing that memory is something that is going to be improved in the next generation of consoles: to us, it’s a joy. It’s something that we were waiting for. We were PC gamers at the beginning.

“We love PC games, and we had to make games on consoles. But the main problem was memory. The processors are good, but the memory, for our games, is the most important. So it’s great.”

Dishonored took top honors at the British Academy Games Awards Tuesday night with the award for Best Game.

11 comments

adge_uk
09/03/13, 5:10 pm

Just a slight typo, but there isn’t 4GB of RAM is the PS3.

Max Payne
09/03/13, 5:10 pm

PS3 didn’t have 4gb.

adge_uk
09/03/13, 5:12 pm

Also, I find it very humorous that many developers (like this dude and Carmack) are actively praising the PS4 architecture (based upon seeing it) and many internet commentators are actively dissing the PS3 architecture (based upon limited knowledge of it).

Hmmmm, who do we trust? Skilled developers with hands on experience or l33thax00r who installed his own graphics card and put a new fan on his CPU… It’s a tough call.

Froseidon
09/03/13, 5:13 pm

8gb is more than ample when it comes to it.

Hcw87
09/03/13, 5:13 pm

No, the PS3 has 512mb SHARED memory.

…….512mb.

Stephany Nunneley
09/03/13, 5:15 pm

@1 &2 I am batting 10000 today. I’m going back to bed and let this stomach virus finish me off. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Okay, I am calm now. Just deleting it entirely.

adge_uk
09/03/13, 5:18 pm

Should have changed it to “as opposed to the 700 petagigblitterflopmaster 8000 in the PS3″.

Stephany Nunneley
09/03/13, 5:20 pm

@7 I like that better actually.