Kingston helps you choose your storage

Video games have become a form of entertainment that many users choose to occupy their free time. In fact, according to Newzoo data, the video game industry generated nearly $185 billion in 2022, which, to put it in context, is more than the movie and music industries combined, according to Gower’s data. Street Analytics and Media Research, respectively.

The possibilities of enjoying more powerful, smoother and more complex games are also significantly doubled. Components are progressing and we are already in the fifth generation, which will lead to titles that require hardware at a very high level.

Therefore, Kingston Technology Europe Co LLP, a division of Kingston Technology Company Inc. , the world’s leading independent memory products and technology solutions, would like to provide some guidance on the random access memory (RAM) and solid state drives (SSD) that different levels of games require for gamers to use. Gamers know if they need to improve their device:

• AAA Games: “Microsoft Flight Simulator,” “GTA V,” “Assassins Creed Valhalla,” or “Cyberpunk 2077” movies fall into this category. These games usually require powerful hardware in all aspects, but in terms of RAM and SSD, they usually require between 8 and 16 GB of RAM (although some go as high as 32), to be able to divide it into two units, etc. Between 50 and 150 GB storage on an SSD.
  In this category we will see an increasingly upward trend, as 32 GB of RAM and more storage will be required, although they already have higher requirements than most games.
• AA Games: Midway between low-budget video games and blockbuster games like “A Plague Tale: Innocence,” “Little Nightmares,” or “A Way Out.” In this case, the requirements go down and move between 4 and 12 GB of RAM and between 10 and 50 GB of storage on the device we’re using. However, they are good games that can be enjoyed a lot despite not having the graphical ability or power of the top titles.
• Indie games: These are video games from independent production companies or studios, usually low budget, but very popular like “Minecraft”, “Overcoocked” or “Papers, Please”. What games at this level require can be easily accessed by any user, since they usually do not exceed 4GB of RAM and less than 1GB of storage.

Kingston offers products designed specifically for gamers, no matter what power they need. The FURY line of RAM caters to all gamers, as it has options for both DDR4 and DDR5, ranging from 2666MB/s to 7200MB/s and with capacities up to 256GB. For storage, it has an SSD designed specifically for gaming, the Kingston FURY Renegade, which has a capacity of up to 4TB and has a hub and heatsink option, for better temperature flow.

Comments Jordi Garcia, Director of Kingston Business in Spain. “With the development possibilities that consoles and PCs will have in the coming years, we will see that they will increasingly demand more power from components to be able to exploit all their advantages.”