Spying with James Bond in 007 First Light could challenge lower-end machines. Newly released recommended system requirements list a high amount of RAM for 1080p/60fps gameplay. A memory shortage resulting in higher costs have made upgrading PC specs a frightening prospect.
According to Steam hardware survey, ~55.7% of systems have less than 32GB.
Xbox S, Xbox X, and Ps5 have 16GB.
So safe to safe majority of gamers do not have 32GB and aren’t getting more any time soon.
That’s the “recommended” amount, though. Most probably 16 would be totally fine.
Hey you asked so I answered.
They quote minimum as 16GB and 8GB Vram for 1080/30fps which fewer and fewer people are willing to accept.
Mmm…note that the consoles there use unified memory. It’s not quite the same thing, but it’d be closer to compare unified memory on a console to main memory plus video memory on a PC than to just main memory alone.
True, which means they basically have less than 16GB due to whatever the gpu uses which puts them at less than minimum recommended specs.
That either means consoles are getting a more optimized build (doubted) or they’re cutting things that they could offer a toggle for on PC. Either way not a good look in this current market.
Steam hardware survey has like 50% shit-tier laptops though. Just 36.85% English users.
I think most gamers, especially the ones who built their own rig in the past 5 years or did any research before buying their prebuilt are gonna have 32gb minimum.
It’s the people in poorer regions that really get fucked by these kind of requirements, but the publishers often don’t consider them a significant revenue source for a AAA title.
I do wish the data was more granular. Maybe there’s a way to get at it, I haven’t poked too much. I’m real curious how much data the big AAA companies have on hardware or if they also just look at Steam hardware surveys.
I know a lot of people around me (not a poor region) skimped on RAM because they had to save every penny for a GPU since the start of covid and only went 16GB thinking they’d add more later. Guess we’ll see how well the game does.
I would kill for the data to be much more granular. I’d love to see national or regional statistics.
You can filter by Linux and it’s 83% English speakers. Intel CPU speeds go from bottom of the barrel budget ghz to the highest spot listed on the charts. Linux may trend tech worker to an extent and around 21% is the steam deck, but that just makes the stats feel more like what i’d expect in the US and wealthy european nations.
The fact that Chinese makes up about 25% and Russian makes up 10% of the Windows survey should have a huge statistical impact on results. I swore those numbers were even higher before too.
What is the importance of those “English speaking” gamers over others? Why does it only matter what kind of hardware the “English speaking” gamers have?
The commenter you replied to just showed you the numbers. Most gamers do in fact not have 32gb of ram.