Pavilion runs at 1080p/60FPS on PS4, "Happy with 8GB RAM, no worry about running out of memory": Dev

Pavilion, a fourth-person puzzle adventure game from Visiontrick Media. Its pretty unique title where players will control the environment instead of character, and will try to manipulate the character to head in the direction they would like him to go.

[Chaostar]

Keeping an eye on this game, looks really interesting.

[Naga]

That quoted statement still has me confused, considering that the PS4 only has 4-5GB available for use. Being completely honest with ourselves here, the fact that they don't have to worry about running out of memory is likely more a function of the sort of game this is than anything else. Nonetheless, I'm sure Sony appreciates the positive PR from comments like this.

[randomass171]

I thought only 1GB was isolated to the OS and that even some of that could be used on games.

[u got owned]

@randomass171

You thought wrong . Its 4.5GB for games and 0.5GB of flexible memory.

[SirBradders]

Sometimes you gotta read between the lines the guy probably means the memory as a whole in which we all well know what's allocated, no buggy.

[ShinMaster]

"only has 4-5GB available"?

According the the later rumors, it was 5.5GBs. And according to Digita Foundry, it was at least 5GBs.
Not 4.5GBs.

That flexible memory is 100% the game's.

[Army_of_Darkness]

4.5gb- 8gb of memory blah, blah... The point is that the developers are happy with whatever amount of memory that they are currently using and no dev so far is complaining about Ram restraints. Meaning I would take it as a good thing ;-) lighten up people...

[RamboRabbi]

You have to take into account the bandwidth capacity of gddr5 ram before saying "only 4-5gb".

[Naga]

@ ShinMaster

Sucker Punch (Infamous) recently stated that it was 4.5GB available, including the 0.5GB of flexible memory. I'm simply going off of the most recent, reliable source.

[corvusmd]

Why does every arcade/indie game that comes to PS4 HAVE to wear the tag that it's 1080p/60fps? It's an arcade/indie game....it BETTER.

@ace... I guess man, but it seems like this gen it's already the "rare" not the norm that these style games CAN't do it. I can even think of a single one on ANY system (Wii U, PS4, XB1) that can't do it.

[aceitman]

@ corvusmd because not every indie or arcade game was able to do it last gen . and it can be a challenge for some indie or arcade games even though its not a triple AAA game.

[TitanUp]

its is a bit odd, that they keep announcing 1080p 60/30 fps.

2014 just about every game should be running that resolution and those frames.

[sinspirit]

@Illusive_Man

And I'm sure Microsoft paid you to say that. Do you understand where I'm getting at? Stop making up anti-company remarks because of your personal bias.

[MasterCornholio]

I dont see why not. Its always good to know what FPS and resolution a game runs in. I know why this bothers you and I'm sorry but this type of news is good news for people wanting to buy this game on the PS4,

[Bathyj]

And better question is why does it bother you so much?

The thing is, when a dev makes a game and he's proud of it, he wants to talk about it a bit. Should he not do that because some other dev who has nothing do with him, talked about his own game and was also 1080p 60fps?

Don't be ridiculous.

You wouldn't even be questioning this if the roles were reversed.

[candy_mafia]

I can tell you why some are irritated that tons of PS4 games are 1080P but I won't 'cos I think you already know the answer to that question.

People be acting like they got forced to buy the weaker console??? ...Do like I did, buy both or shut up. We got Xbox One just for exclusives, you don't ever read me complaining about lack of rez/fps?

Yup, you're right it's Juvenile & Completely Ridiculous

#saltydontchangenothin'

[Illusive_Man]

So this is the first gen where devs are proud of their games?

Facts are nobody gave a damn last gen as long as the title was in HD.

They are using res and framerate as defining selling points for games now, and that is troubling.

[Bathyj]

Define HD. Because I remember a lot of games that didn't even run 720p native, and that still had a fine toothed comb run over their graphics.

You wanna talk facts? The fact is, the same people who made a big deal about a 5% pixel difference last gen suddenly don't give a crap when it's 50%.

What's even sadder is, Xbone isn't even mentioned here, theyre talking about ps4, yet the usual anti Sony brigade is all defensive, upset that some would speak well of Ps4 while Xbone isn't even in the conversation.

An Adam Orth quote springs to mind...

[randomass171]

A lot of gamers focus on the resolution and framerates in games. It's no surprise that indies feel it's important to list out their games' graphical features, especially when it comes from someone without the big budgets of publisher owned developers.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

But they don't have access to 8gb of RAM... lol

[randomass171]

Uhhh, yeah they do. That's how much RAM is in the PS4. And it's a more state of the art form of RAM.

[Blaze929]

Its 4.5GB for games and 0.5GB of flexible memory. I need to really know where Sony fans keep getting these made up "facts" from...

[randomass171]

I'm pretty sure they only relegated 1GB of RAM to the OS and that developers will gain more and more access to the rest of the RAM as time goes on. So therefor there's more than 4.5GB of RAM at their disposal.

[mushroomwig]

'I'm pretty sure they only relegated 1GB of RAM to the OS'

No;

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

[ShinMaster]

According to that DigitalFoundry article, it's at least 5GBs. Not 4.5GBs.

[imt558]

Yes, they do, GUTZ.

In future, memory footprint will shrink in future, just like on PS3 and X360. There will be only 1 GB of RAM available for OS in future. The rest will be for games.

[MegaDan]

They actually do, Mark Cerny has stated in various interviews about devs having access to up to 8gb of ram in the next years. Only reason they can only use 4.5gb is so they can get used to it at first.

[Dark_king]

They will never have all 8 gigs some will always be used for the OS.I could see them getting it down to 1 gig for the OS possible even 512mb near the end of the life of the system(once they know for sure there not adding any more) but never down to 0.

[DarkLord1003]

This game looks amazing. the art style, it's just so mesmerizing

[waltyftm]

Very cool, 8GB Ram?

[Klad]

cool, but i thought a few gigs of ram was dedicated to the OS?

[hkgamer]

i know i complain alot, but why does this headline have to mention 1080p/60fps

its a 2d game with barely anything going on. it should just say happy with 8gb, no worry about running out of money.

anyways, game looks interesting. will getvat the right price.

[BX81]

Its because of the trolls feeding into this resolution gate. If you get paid by clicks then you want a title that's going to encite clicks for what ever reason. I don't recall last gen being like this.

[hkgamer]

last gen was either ps3 cell power unlocked or running at 100%.

either that or 360vsps3 comparison shots.

[BX81]

Yeah oh god how I hate the term... Bullshots, lol. I don't understand how some people can't just enjoy their system/s of choice without down playing someone else's purchase.

[weirdo]

happy devs = happy gamers

[AnEwGuY]

LOL...it's getting ridiculous how many little low-budget indie devs use the "it's 1080p/60fps" as a selling point. This game, on a standard PC, could be run at TWICE that resolution AND 120fps. And the comment about the RAM is pointless, since games like this typically don't require more than 2GB. This is just more PR nonsense.

[jlo]

Well duh, look at it. My grandma's washing machine could run this game at 1080p 60fps.

[BX81]

Yeah but the real question is what can the dryer do?

[S2Killinit]

What is meant by the "4th person" puzzling adventure?
(Game is not my cup of tea but it might be cool for all those times that you just wanna relax and do a little puzzle to entertain u)

[AnEwGuY]

It's a (BS) term that they've apparently derived from literature. When a story is told from the "3rd person omniscient" viewpoint, it's from a "god-like" perspective, where the narrator knows and sees all, including inside the minds of the characters (allowing for internal dialogue..or "thinking out loud" scenarios in the story). It's different from standard 3rd person, where you simply see (read) everything from the outside perspective, but with no introspective connections to the characters. They obviously were talking about TPO perspective, but decided to make up the "4th person" to make it sound different, I suppose.

[S2Killinit]

Thanks very informative. Im bubbling you just nit sure if i'll go with intelligent or helpful (:

[andrewer]

*cough* vram *cough*

[antikbaka]

even my 2 years old smartphone can manage it at 1080/60fps... Someone, pls, give Sony some sense to stop tagging every single 8-bit game.

[dartmyth]

I know what you mean PS4/XBOX1 are suppose to be the latest and greatest and seems like all the rage is games that look like they where made in the early 90's Think i should just run unity on my laptop and let my cat walk all over it for 6 months and call it a next gen game

[hadouken007]

Lotta haters in here.lol they so pissed by the headline. (Hate dont look good on nobody)

[Silly gameAr]

I notice a lot of haters too. Oh well. Let them do what they do best I guess. Must be against the law for someone to be proud about what they achieved with their game.

[pakua]

This is getting stupid now. Come on Sony/MS give these sites something decent to write about