Quote Originally Posted by dasa View Post
its not like memory is expensive imo it can make more difference than any other change they can make for the same $$ spent on hardware to games if they just made games that can make use of it
I think it may be partly due to fear that memory prices will rise.

I personally wouldn't want to budget the cost to manufacture a console using current ddr3 prices, that's for sure. I'm not sure what's inside the current gen consoles, but if it's ddr2, that's a LOT more expensive now than it was.