Submitted by DPAD Dave 747d ago | news


The high cost of memory and processors will make it "impossible" for next-gen consoles "to have the same kind of impact on the console business" as the previous generation, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has told VideoGamer.com, before suggesting that next-generation horsepower won't be too dissimilar to the current capabilities of top-end PCs. (Industry, Next-Gen, PS3, Xbox 360)

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GraveLord  +   747d ago
Axecution  +   747d ago
You would honestly be fine with 720p?

Detoxx  +   747d ago
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bumnut  +   747d ago
@solid warlord

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bozebo  +   746d ago
There WILL be 30fps games.
What is perfect HD?






been awhile since they built a pc I guess.
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FanboyPunisher  +   747d ago
LMAO, 720 with jaggies out the ying yang is HD?


MysticStrummer  +   747d ago
R6ex  +   747d ago
720p is only HD-Ready.

1080p is Full HD.
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Norrison  +   747d ago
First party devs always output the best graphics on consoles.
Cueil  +   746d ago
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SpartanQ8  +   747d ago
your right but the pc you are talking about cost 1500$..so i think i better stick with my xbox :))
3GenGames  +   747d ago

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Dread  +   747d ago
dude read his comment.

he is exchanging currency

mushroomwig  +   747d ago
@3gengames and Flamebaitgod

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Jadedz  +   747d ago

Exclusives will be more important than ever during the next generation.
Cueil  +   746d ago
bozebo  +   746d ago
Just to clarify, Valve aren't releasing a "console".


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violents  +   747d ago
I think this article is some bs. I don't think consoles are ever ahead of pc's and never were. At the launch of every console generation they try to get as close as possible to current high end pc specs while trying to keep it affordable for the average consumer. Thinking that consoles are ever going to be as good or better than a high end pc is just rediculous.

I will agree however with the fact that we prob will not see the huge graphical leap we saw with the advent of the last gen of console. We will see a huge leap in textures, particle effects, lighting(which IMO will make the biggest difference) and AI. Hopefully they can manage to make 1080 res and 60fps the standard as well.

Guess we will just have to wait and see. I'm hopefull and cant wait for next gen.
1upgamer99  +   747d ago
People are Complaining that Wii U, which has more memory, and Newer tech is over priced. I paid $349 for my PS3 3 years ago, and $359 for a Wii U two weeks ago. I remember when PS3 came out it was $499 for a basic. $599 for one with a 60gig hard drive. I am hoping that the new PS3 basic is $399 at the most, but doubtful because a PS3 with a 250 Gig hard drive is $299 NOW.
LAWSON72  +   747d ago
Memory is expensive?
konnerbllb  +   747d ago
The guy kind of loses credibility after saying that huh?
Dasteru  +   747d ago
I think Crytek is based out of Germany so Ram might have a large premium on it there, not sure.

It is certainly not expensive in NA though.

I payed $220 for 8GB of 1333Mhz Ripjaws a little over 2 years ago, that same pack of Ram now is around $60.

Newegg Canada currently has a 32GB pack of 1600mhz G-skill Tridents for $230
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mysterym  +   746d ago
Did you really just say newegg?

You do realise that the memory they are talking about is high-speed gddr 5 or an equivalent and not a normal stick that you put in your pc? There are practical concerns like how they are going to put that many chips into the console as they only come in certain memory sizes per chip and your talking new egg LOL.
Dasteru  +   745d ago
It was simply an example of current Ram costs.

Also you do realise that the G in GDDR stand for Graphics right?

GDDR5 is Graphics double data rate v5, it is VRam not DIM Ram. Current Ram is DDR3 which is exactly what Sony and MS will be using. All console memory is basically the same as off the shelf PC Ram, they simply build the memory chips and a single controller board directly into the motherboard to save space vs DIM slots.

I guess it is possible Sony may go with XDR ram but it would be alot more expensive than DDR3 and so is highly unlikely.

MS is almost sure to be sticking with DDR3, its either that or design their own new type of Ram from scratch which is even less likely than Sony sticking 8Gb of XDR in the PS4.

The WiiU btw is using 1600Mhz DDR3.

P.S Spelling, Grammar and for F sakes paragraphs. They will be your best friends someday.
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mysterym  +   746d ago
Yes its expensive as its GDDR they are talking about - not a pc mem stick you numpty!
Sevir  +   747d ago
concidering that Crytek is at the forefront of MS's Next Gen Xbox
I Can give into the notion that Consoles in the upcoming gen won't be a big leap and will probably be just comparable to current top end PCs, but I simply don't agree with the notion that memory is expensive!

Doesn't seem as if Crytek has built a rig on on today's pc specs recently.

By the same Token, Exclusives generally have been the torch bearers this generation for the HD consoles, and its quite amazing to see that 8 and 7 year old consoles are still pushing out software which sits nicely among the top end pc offerings with few concessions. We know textures and resolutions, graphics and ailiasing are of higher fidelity on current pc specs, but you'd be hard pressed to complain about halo 4, gears 3, TLOU, GoW:A, or even games like Watch Dogs, MGS:GZ or Beyond:2S and those are confirmed current gen games.

Dedicated, Closed down hardware like these are still keeping up. Likely, Games on Next Gen will excel the same way without the worry of having its resources split to run Windows/Mac.

And Devs like Rockstar, GG, Sony Santa Monica, ND, Bethesda, Epic, 343, Irrational games will be right at home.
landog  +   747d ago


current top end pcs are a GIANT leap over 8 year old ps3/360

ps4/nextboxes will not be anywhere near that level, honestly, people are fooling themselves if they thing nextbox and ps4 will be anything even remotely close to an i-7 2600k, gtx 680 and 12 gb ram

consoles next gen will be awesome, i am quite convinced, and will do 1080p at 30 frames with 4x anti aliasing and dx11-like features, the games will look totally amazing,

...but, a 2 year old pc already does that, and a modern pc with the above specs does all that in 2560x1600p or even higher at 60-120 frames with 8x aa and better filtering

next gen consoles are going to be a huge leap over ps3/360, but not even close to a modern gaming pc.
dantesparda  +   747d ago
Amen brother!
BrianG  +   747d ago
Keep in mind home consoles can afford to have lower spec parts in them. Since developers only need to worry about ONE GPU and CPU combination per console they can squeeze every ounce of power out of that combo.

Versus modern PC developers that have to consider 1,000's of CPU and GPU combinations. A modern day GTX 680 isn't even remotely close to being tapped out since developers don't make the game specifically for that GPU.

So of course the next gen consoles wont have modern high end specs of today, if they did it would demolish anything you see on a high end PC today.

And I'm sure console makers are smart enough to see that 2560x1600 is not a house hold TV resolution right now. So they can afford to skimp on the GPU power to offer games at 1080p max. Unless someone decides to change the standard.

But hey, if the next gen consoles launch at about $800 bucks or more (the price of the parts you listed above in a best case scenario in a couple years) then I would expect them to outperform modern day PC's.
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PersonMan  +   747d ago
Consoles do NOT use standard PC RAM you idiot.
Sevir  +   747d ago
Duh you ignoramous
No where did I say they did. Have a f***ing seat!
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3-4-5  +   747d ago
The Price for memory is falling every week.

Is this person an idiot ?

8 GB Ram at Best buy is like $89.99 this week.

They have no excuse.
Kennytaur  +   747d ago
Sony and Microsoft don't buy their memory at Best Buy though...
Barneyco  +   747d ago
Hell, Sony and Microsoft probably pay half the price or less that we do for memory considering they are buying millions of them. Bulk prices maybe.
ABizzel1  +   747d ago
What ram are you buying. 8GB is like $40 and 16GB is around $80. Go to newegg.com and save.
sh0ryuu  +   747d ago
Hell, I just bought 16GB of DDR3 ram for $50 on cyber Monday. Prices are dropping constantly and then buying during sales is even better.
mshope10  +   747d ago
i been saying this for awhile.the systems out now have graphics that are already great!so when the new consoles come out its only going to be noticeable to the most hardcore gamer.

thats why each system will have a gimmick.vr glasses,vr projector so they can separated there selfs from whats out already.
solid_warlord  +   747d ago
Well alot of people are expecting graphics like or close to that of Avavar movie..Well they are gonna be very disappointed cause not even the highest end PC in the market comes close to achieving Avatar like graphics.

Looking at high end PC's of today..its basicaly current gen like grapahics with advanced physics, lighting and anti alaising techinques. Not the stupendous revolution some devs and Nvidia/AMD clowns are claiming to be Avatar like near photo realism in next gen console. Not a chance, Sorry.
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ABizzel1  +   747d ago
It's possible they just need a dual 16 core cpu, 2 gtx 690's, and at least 32GB ram. That $4,000 console will be a beast :D
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Ingram  +   747d ago

With fixed hardware, a lot more performance can be unleashed.

Norrison  +   747d ago
Current gen like graphics? PC games look better than next gen console games will look.

Killzone 3 Console

Battlefield 3 PC

Uncharted 3 Console

The witcher 2 PC
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solid_warlord  +   747d ago


Hahahaha u are either stupid or ill informed. Avatar movie required 10,000 square foot server farm packed with high end CPU and GPU, costing more than 100 million dollars.

No way on earth u will be able to play avatar like graphics in real time let alone pre reder it with a market based PC today, no chance.
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Dasteru  +   747d ago
@ABizzel1 & Ingram:

Not even close.

"To render Avatar, Weta used a 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) server farm making use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage running Ubuntu Linux, Grid Engine cluster manager, and Pixar's Alfred queue management system. The render farm occupies the 193rd to 197th spots in the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Creating the Na'vi characters and the virtual world of Pandora required over a petabyte of digital storage, and each minute of the final footage for Avatar occupies 17.28 gigabytes of storage"


And even with all that it took several hours to render a single frame.

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NoFanboyRequired  +   747d ago
lol we'd hit pixar graphic quality in gaming way before we could even think about hitting avatar quality in games. And honestly, i'd rather have pixar quality ;)
madjedi  +   747d ago
"Well alot of people are expecting graphics like or close to that of Avavar movie." Show me one gamer in real life that seriously expects consoles to hit avatars lvl graphics.

Why are people, even bothering to debate, avatar graphics as if it's expected.


Yeah not hardly, comparing pc graphics to consoles is selling pc's very short. How old is crysis 1, has any console game remotely touched it graphics wise, i seriously doubt it.

Maybe a lower-mid range pc is the best we should expect out of the next gens. Even low end video cards roast the rsx and xenos.

We will achieve similar to avatars graphics eventually do to moores law, likely scaled down considerably do to either storage or memory requirements.

But it will probably after we switch to quantum processors and several other advancements in memory and storage capacity.

So not anytime remotely soon.

Memory is cheap as hell, motherboards and processors(pc) is another story.

Hopefully crysis 3, is alot better than part 2 the graphics were lacking even for a console game, and the gameplay wasn't anything interesting.
ABizzel1  +   746d ago
@solid_warlord & dasteru

And here comes the die hard fact readers. If I posted those specs. (which are obviously far above anything the PS4 or Nextbox would be capable of), don't you think I'm well aware of what was used to render the movie Avatar, especially considering it's been posted on EVERY tech site, over and over (hence your links to a couple of those pages).

Lighten up. No one is expecting next-gen consoles, or PC's to run Avatar level graphics or else we would have seen them by now. The purpose of that post was to show it's not happening no time soon.
Ingram  +   747d ago
Crytek seems to inhabit a parallel dimension where


onandonandon  +   747d ago
I was promised 1080P and 60fps this gen so I definitely want it next gen!!
animegamingnerd  +   747d ago
who promised you that?
NoFanboyRequired  +   747d ago
SONY did.
BrianG  +   747d ago
Sony said the PS3 could handle 1080p at 60fps.

A notable mention being Gran Turismo 5, which runs 60fps at 1920x1080p.

Sure it's an example of one game, but at least they didn't lie.
Bolts  +   746d ago
Lol GT 5 is not 1080p. Please stop drinking the Kool Aid. There is only one 1080p spec that counts and that's native 1080p. And there's only a handful of Sony games that truly support that spec. Wipeout is the one them if I recall correctly.

If you're going to count scaling then hell, even CoD 4 can be played at 1080p, but that doesn't mean the game is 1080p.
BrianG  +   746d ago

I'll admit I'm wrong. I double checked and GT5 is running at a sub 1080p native resolution. Still a beautiful game.

But on topic, Wipeout is native 1080p 60fps. There are also a couple downloadable PSN games that support the native 1080p resolution as well.

Btw, not getting the Kool Aid reference if you want to clear that up.
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Kennytaur  +   746d ago
Wipeout runs at a dynamic resolution, it's not a constant 1080p.
dantesparda  +   746d ago
Brian G

Drinking the kool aid means that you believe the bullsh!t. It means that you believe anything Sony says.

The phrase comes from a real cult from Guyana headed by some American guy named Jim Jones in the late 70's that all killed themselves by drinking cyanide laced kool aid.


and p.s. Wipeout does use a dynamic resolution
onandonandon  +   745d ago
The box the PS3 came in!!
ardivt  +   747d ago
This will just Not Happen. Take killzone3 or uncharted 3 and make it Full hd with 60fps and next Gen Consoles will probably maxed Out. You can either have a huge overall quality Jump or 60fps fullhd.
Personally I don't care for 1080p, I want better Lightning and Textures!
Ju  +   747d ago
Well...this is probably a radical idea and won't happen anyway. But maybe they should reconsider the business model. A brand new console is maybe not the answer. But a scalable one could be. Trouble with that idea is, it would require to build uppon the current gen.

In that sense I'd almost give MS the edge since they run a SW platform first and foremost. Sony would keep the PS4 compatible with the PS3.

But, I'd almost say there is some juice left in a "SuperPS3". Better cell, more mem, better mem bandwidth could push current content easily up to to 1080p, update the GPU, too.

But, with such a thing, games would run on either platform, scaling to the power of the machine opening up one market for developers and different pricing brackets for consumer. A low end PS3 - which can go down to $150 (or so) and than some layers of power boxes, the faster the more pricier letting the choice to the consumer to go with what they can afford but allowing a top end power model for who ever wants it also taking away the pressure to have the lowest price for the manufacturers.
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konnerbllb  +   747d ago
cpu's maybe but memory has gone way down over the years
SDF Repellent  +   747d ago
I am not worry. I am pretty sure Microsoft will launch the Xbox 720 at $599 with a DVD drive, cheap specs because they are greedy and all they care about is profits while Sony will release the PS4 at $299 with a free Vita, 4K graphics and state of the art specs because they will sacrifice loss profit to please the fanbase. I am pretty sure that is the wet-dream all N4G fans would want.
GenMasterB  +   747d ago
He should have said "The LOW Cost of CPU's and Memory will impact"..... The fact you can build a fairly monster PC for 500 bucks that could probably dance around even the next-gen consoles should make game companies realize they'll need more then just "cpu cycles" to win the next-gen race..
Rageanitus  +   747d ago
I love how console fanboys are convinced you cannot notice anything above 720p and its nto a big deal especially on small screens.... hello just look at the tablets today 1080p resolution is a HUGE and noticible difference over 720p even on a 10 inch screen.

Just look at the retina display vs the ipad mini.
IWentBrokeForGaming  +   747d ago
We ALL already KNOW that whatever PS4 and Xbox720 have in them... that it'll already come out of the gate so dated to what is available for PC's...

Thats what I don't get about the costs of internal components... when if they are dated by time they debute wouldn't that actually cut costs?
PersonMan  +   747d ago
I play games on both PC and PS3 and they games look the same for the most part. It's not as mind blowing as people seem to think it is. When I play a game on PC at max settings, I expect to be blown away right?... but, to me it just looks slightly better than the console version.

The biggest difference I see is that shadows don't look as pixelated on PC. Textures, polygons and draw distances look pretty much the same.

I'd rather play on my PS3 to be honest. I like the console experience better when given the choice between the two.
Steadyhndz  +   747d ago
Processing costs have gone down at a rate we couldn't imagine 4 years ago...memory 3 years ago...try about $50 a gig...now you can get 4GB for $50....therefore the title has made me rate this article a 0/10 due to stupidity and not knowing the market at all.
DFresh  +   747d ago
Rising cost of memory?
You can get 8GB of RAM for $60 on Newegg.com.

Rising costs of processors/graphics cards?
Depends what you want.
AMD and NVIDIA have been dropping their prices of video cards due to competition.
You can get either an ATI 7950 or NVIDIA GTX 670 in the $300-$350 range.

By the time the next gen consoles come out in the next few years or so these cards will be affordable to use.

It's impossible to keep up with PC it's a never end growing market.
(If anything I'm glad the consoles are kinda slowing done the process on the PC gaming side because you won't have to upgrade as much and it won't cost a fortune to keep up to get the latest graphical gaming specs.)
mastershredder  +   747d ago
Yeah, what rising cost of memory? Apparently not paying attention to the recent memory market crash.
Roccetarius  +   747d ago
Cevat Yerli have said so much shit in the past months. Crytek always delivers forgettable games, so i wish more effort would be put into that instead.
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black911  +   747d ago
Quantic Dream says PS3 stil has alot of power left.
WitWolfy  +   746d ago
*Face palm* Gawd I hate these articles!
wadukadoo  +   746d ago
All you people talking about how avatar like graphics are almost possible. Read this quick article. http://www.geek.com/article...
I think it is safe to say its not going to be any time soon.
unicronic  +   746d ago
I don't understand how a commodity product can rise in cost. Makes no sense whatsoever. Most commodities are overproduced and get cheaper going forward.
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