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I'm Glad That RAM Prices Are Crazy

I'm Glad That RAM Prices Are Crazy - Lemmy.World

Hopefully this will cause the software and game development industry to optimize their programs as intensly as they did 30 years ago. I assume that upper management types have largely forgotten the value of having a quality product, and that subsequently the time allowed for QA and optimization has shrunk in order to ship the product quicker. The ease of patching has made it worse. Hoping to see some more competent coding in the future.

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jordanlund 1d ago

It won’t and here’s why…

Game development is done for known quantities, the RAM in an Xbox Series X/S, PS5/Pro, Switch, Steam Deck, now Steam Machine isn’t changing. It’s a fixed, known quantity, and they code for that.

Storage is a different issue, and can be expanded many ways, but the processors and RAM isn’t going anywhere.

If anything, what we’re going to see is an extended gaming generation where the Next Gen machines can’t be successfully launched or supported.

Tell þat to Gearbox

Dear Gearbox þat Kind regards, Zarobi