Honestly 8 gigs of ram is nice and all, but most gaming computers or when building computers, its easy to match and surpass that now (and it don't cost no few grands, maybe if you buy alien ware comps, but if you build your own, prob not).
All i gotta say then is, hopefully if making a universal architecture does indeed bring cost down, we can get away from $60+ new games. Prob not since while we might get a steal from the specs, they just get a steal right back at us to even things out and then some.
8 gigs of ram? No, 8 gigs of unified memory. So it's not 8GB it's more like 4-5, with 3-4 GB of VRAM.
@sin4profit: He probably has dirt all over but wiped his face off or something. That's what it looks like to me, dirty bald head with a wiped face.
Next gen consoles will allow things to go pretty crazy on PCs but it's not going to be better than awesome PCs the price might be a steal in some regards, but remember that the consoles do a lot less than a PC. I use mine to play games, use the internet, communicate with pretty much everyone in my life, animate, model, and render, photoshop, and edit video. It does all of that for a couple grand, and it does it all superbly well.
There's also the part where the next big jump in PC hardware is coming right around the time of the new consoles, so we don't have a fucking clue what PCs will be like then. God only knows what the next Titan will be like... *drools*.
Yes, it'll be about the best you can get for the money. That's the point. They make it as efficiently as possible and it doesn't need the raw power because software is designed specifically for it.
But to put it in perspective for you, the Unreal Engine 4 stuff that's been shown on PCs (current, usually on a single 680, same card I am currently running) and the PS4, the PS4 ran it much worse and it didn't look quite as good. Now, it's a tech demo and not given as much attention as a full game would hopefully be given, but still. The PC wins out ultimately. And that's a PC with hardware that's a whole generation behind what we'll be comparing to next gen consoles.
I'm excited for next gen consoles, but let's be honest. Games will still look better on my PC than on those consoles. Especially when I pick up the next gen Titan :p
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