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The fine details of some PC games are out of control.

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Square Enix's Forspoken is asking for a lot of RAM.

Square Enix’s Spoken It is asking a lot of RAM.
Fig: Square Enix

In the past few years, the minimum amount of RAM you needed to play the latest games on a PC was around the 8-16GB ballpark. Unless, of course, you’re talking about some very strange outliers, both games coming from or appearing on the PlayStation 5.

We knew that last month ReturnGame released on PS5 in April 2021, In the year It will be released on the PC in 2023 with recommended specs of “an eye-watering 32 GB of RAM.”. 32GB! what the hell! That was all. Recommended Its size—a minimal-yet-hefty 16GB—certainly stood out not only for the amount it required, but also because, let’s be honest, it didn’t seem like a game that needed that much compared to it. His peers. But coming from the PS5, most people simply wrote off the game’s development as a weird, console-first slog and moved on.

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Fig: Square Enix

Now, however, Square Enix-published SpokenThe game coming to PlayStation 5 is doing the same thing, hitting alongside the PC version at launch. At least 16GB of RAM (just to run at 720p! on PC!), 24GB recommended and 32GB required if you want to run the game on Ultra settings. Return Being a port of a PS5 game was one thing, though Spoken It was developed with an unlocked PC version alongside the console version, so that’s no excuse.

That’s a lot of RAM! I bought a new gaming PC in 2020 and it came with 16 GB RAMThis was good at the time, maybe a bit excessive, because games always only required 8GB (2022’s). Modern Warfare IIJust for comparison It requires 16GB to run on Ultra 4K). Some PlayStation-related games (and almost others!) require 16 GB to jump to the stage Low It’s wild, and sorry Return And SpokenBut you two are going to make me buy new hardware to play on.

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Sony has done a pretty good job of bringing games to PC lately. horizon to the god of war Doing so well that ports will be an integral part of the PlayStation release business in the future (the last of usFor example, it comes in March). Those are all games that were released on PS4, though, and also came with relatively reasonable specifications; If this is the amount of RAM needed to bring PS5 games to the PC (and I’m not sure it is.As this is the pattern now), then Sony’s future ports may not be such smooth sailing.

While we’re on the subject Spokena demo was recently released, and fan feedback has led to some changes to the game:

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