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Quote Originally Posted by Bolivar View Post
The PS3 can run multiplatform games better than a PC which does have those PS4 specs.
That's weird, because SE - known as fantastic people at pushing consoles to their limits - have often stated that the PC version of FFXIV has been limited/restricted by the PS3 cross-platform functionality.
I think you're stretching what is really only hyperbole. When a developer is making a game, yes, there will be some things the PS3 simply can't do, but once both versions are made, 99% of all developers spend 1000x the resources optimizing the console versions than they do optimizing PC.

Go on Steam and browse all the AAA multiplatform titles - notice how they all require 2 to 4 gigabytes of RAM? Imagine how poorly the game runs on those bare minimum systems. Then look at how smoothly the games play on a PS3 or a 360 which are running off of only 256mb of RAM.

Quote Originally Posted by Mirage
Oh really now. Examples, please. Also, define "better".
Nexuiz, Splinter Cell: Conviction, the Call of Duty games, and maybe even Crysis 2. By better, I mean running at smoother framerates with comparable graphical fidelity. My laptop is just about where those PS4 specs are at, and all of those games run worse for me than they do on console. Again, it's all about optimization, how much effort developers put in to getting every last drop of performance out of the system. Some do a better job than others. Far Cry 2 is better and FEAR 2 absolutely blows away the console version.

edit: and Vivi and nirojan have the right in this, I simply cannot see these machines having less than 4GB minimum memory, not split with GPU. You can get a computer with that much memory for $200 or less these days if you look hard enough.