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Klocker · 07-10-2008, 02:49 AM

the kind of things discussed in the OP related to "memory" are only enhanced by RAM. Not disc space ala Blu-Ray or HD DVD.

this is a mistake that many people make, thinking that more disc space will solve these issues. as pointed out in this thread it costs tons of money for more assets in development time to fill the big discs and compression tech makes the DVD More than sufficient for this gen (albeit with a few multi-disc games here and there).

the RAM in both systems is 512 (actually a little more is available in 360 due to lower overhead of the OS) but for all intents and purposes regardless of how much is on the disc, only ~512 can be displayed at any one time.

If you wanna point the blame, point it at the 512Mb instead of 1 gig RAM, which would have been cost prohibitive for this gen.

07-10-2008, 02:49 AM	#14
Klocker MVP OVR: 16 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Gilbert, AZ	Re: Graphics or Gameplay? Need More Space? the kind of things discussed in the OP related to "memory" are only enhanced by RAM. Not disc space ala Blu-Ray or HD DVD. this is a mistake that many people make, thinking that more disc space will solve these issues. as pointed out in this thread it costs tons of money for more assets in development time to fill the big discs and compression tech makes the DVD More than sufficient for this gen (albeit with a few multi-disc games here and there). the RAM in both systems is 512 (actually a little more is available in 360 due to lower overhead of the OS) but for all intents and purposes regardless of how much is on the disc, only ~512 can be displayed at any one time. If you wanna point the blame, point it at the 512Mb instead of 1 gig RAM, which would have been cost prohibitive for this gen. Last edited by Klocker; 07-10-2008 at 02:53 AM.