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To be honest I couldn't care less about Onlive nor FF, I would like them to focus more on either hardware such as Wifi, more Ram or an SD card port or on useful

by duked 14y ago

To be honest I couldn't care less about Onlive nor FF, I would like them to focus more on either hardware such as Wifi, more Ram or an SD card port or on useful software: Mame port or some useful license like GGPO (that could really enable an xbox live like experience on arcade games). I'm a backer but probably not their main usual target I guess, I'm more looking at it like a Rasberry Pi alternative than a real gaming console.

mtgx 14y ago
I still don't understand this craving for more RAM. Does Android need that much RAM for a single game? Does iOS? Does Xbox360? The games for OUYA will not be more powerful than that. And don't expect to keep the 1st gen of OUYA for 7 years, if you really care about gaming on OUYA. OUYA is more like a smartphone - something you buy once every 1-2 years, with much improved graphics performance. ARM graphics performance improves 2x every 12 months, so 4x after 2 years. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Tegra 4 brings that much improvement alone over Tegra 3, since Tegra 3 was a pretty small chip compared to competition, even at 40nm (therefore weaker), and Tegra 4 is rumored to have 64 cores (5.3x more than Tegra 3). I would much rather like it to come with Tegra 4 or some other 2013-ready CPU/GPU than more RAM.
- cicloid 14y ago
  If you read interviews and/or talk to people in the industry, they would tell you that more RAM expands the possibilities for many of the games. Even for AAA titles like Battlefield 3, the difference in 64 players in a pc to 24 players on consoles according to the developers, was mostly because of the lack of memory. 1GB is huge for a game console. Just for comparison the PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.
  - mtgx 14y ago
    But the games on Android and iOS are limited to like 50 MB each. Why would you need more than 20x that RAM for a single game that will look pretty much the same as what you'll see on tablets and phones.
    - cicloid 14y ago
      textures
- duked 14y ago
  I think you just took one one my suggestion as THE ONLY suggestion. Ram could mean better textures, more advanced IA, better multi player game (hey it's 2012, online gaming should be the focus). Anyway Ram is not the only answer... read my post again ram was just one of the things I think could be improve ;)

by duked 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago

I still don't understand this craving for more RAM. Does Android need that much RAM for a single game? Does iOS? Does Xbox360? The games for OUYA will not be more powerful than that. And don't expect to keep the 1st gen of OUYA for 7 years, if you really care about gaming on OUYA. OUYA is more like a smartphone - something you buy once every 1-2 years, with much improved graphics performance. ARM graphics performance improves 2x every 12 months, so 4x after 2 years. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if Tegra 4 brings that much improvement alone over Tegra 3, since Tegra 3 was a pretty small chip compared to competition, even at 40nm (therefore weaker), and Tegra 4 is rumored to have 64 cores (5.3x more than Tegra 3). I would much rather like it to come with Tegra 4 or some other 2013-ready CPU/GPU than more RAM.

cicloid 14y ago
If you read interviews and/or talk to people in the industry, they would tell you that more RAM expands the possibilities for many of the games. Even for AAA titles like Battlefield 3, the difference in 64 players in a pc to 24 players on consoles according to the developers, was mostly because of the lack of memory. 1GB is huge for a game console. Just for comparison the PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.
- mtgx 14y ago
  But the games on Android and iOS are limited to like 50 MB each. Why would you need more than 20x that RAM for a single game that will look pretty much the same as what you'll see on tablets and phones.
  - cicloid 14y ago
    textures
duked 14y ago
I think you just took one one my suggestion as THE ONLY suggestion. Ram could mean better textures, more advanced IA, better multi player game (hey it's 2012, online gaming should be the focus). Anyway Ram is not the only answer... read my post again ram was just one of the things I think could be improve ;)