Greg1040

I'll agree theres no doubt 8gb will be used for games but there is no way there is only going to be 2gb free for games I would go for 5gn at the very minimum.

As said there could be separate hardware that runs the os ect that will leave more of the main hardware for games.

 

 

I don't know. I don't see why you would need all that for games. Look at Crysis 3 requirements. http://www.crysis.com/us/crysis-3/buy Total of 3GB, 2GB of RAM and 1GB on the video card. And that is to keep the background tasks running and the game. So saying 5GB for a game -- or any more then 3GB -- is really over kill at this point.

I own a ps3 and a wii u so wouldn't say am biased towards 1 or the other. Soo much people compare these specs to what they run in an actual pc but yet try and emulate even a wii game which isnt by any means a powerfull console and u need a fairly decent pc to get games to run so it's not something u can compare. When u think how much of a leap it is from current gen 512 ram to 8gb DDR5 aswell just for starters there's a huge jump and when the first party studios use it to its full potential it will no dout put the wii u to shame. Don't get me wrong wii u is a massive step up from the wii but until wee see some first party games such as say zelda for wii u and say uncharted for ps4 and have something to really compare we can't really say.

End of the day no matter how powerful of a system you have games will only look as good as the people making them can get/ want them to.

But going by specs ps4 outdoes the wii u and no1 can deny that.

Nice post but don't assume the 8gigs of ram is just left for gaming, it's not... the ram will be needed for other features including OS. It will still have more ram available for games yes, but not the full 8 gigs.