How the hell ps3 able to run such high games?

Question

when i saw its specs it says just 512 mb ram so how ps3 runs games like battlefield cod etc

Answer 1

The games are designed for RAM as low as that. But soon we'll have better consoles, with more RAM, better GPUs, CPUs....

Answer 2

Sony's Playstation Cell processor is seven processors, one of those being the general purpose core and the other six being these real dedicated specific-use type of processors that are extremely fast. But seeing that they’re not general purpose, they’re a little bit more challenging for programmers to get under control and to write software for.



Many of the other hardware components are a lot more powerful than you think. 512mb Ram is only to do with the memory. You need to look at the graphics card etc.



Also these games are specifically designed to run on consoles whereas many are ported onto the PC and so dont run as well. However BF3 run's excellent on a well built PC (alot better than any console). This is the case for many games.



Console's main purpose is too play games for the average consumer and hence it is built with this in mind. Therefore it doesn't need high end parts just average parts.

Answer 3

The short version is that console hardware always stays the same so developers have years to optimise their game to run well on console hardware, where on PC they'd have to take into account all sorts of different combinations of hardware that people might have.



Consoles like the PS3 also use OS's that are designed mainly with gaming in mind, and don't have to run an operating system like Windows which is doing all sorts of non-gaming related stuff at the same time that takes up resources. This is why the PS3 can run games like GTA V and Bioshock Infinite as well as it does when it would seemingly not be possible on a PC with the same hardware. :)

Answer 4

BF3 on consoles looks worse than the game on low settings on PC.



COD's graphics have stayed the same basically since Modern Warfare, which is the only reason the games still run at 60fps.



Console games are made to run ON consoles. Not quite sure how they do it though, lol.

Answer 5

Generally the ps games are modified according to the platform .This is also the reason why ps game rns only on ps