PC players had been left scratching their heads when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight revealed its surprisingly beefy spec necessities final month. The really helpful rig to play the open-world motion sport would want a whopping 32GB of RAM. Now not. The action-adventure’s builders have now slashed that requirement in half as the nice AI-fueled RAM scarcity of 2026 intensifies.
The Lego Batman specs had been a shock once they had been first noticed on January 17. They had been instantly in comparison with the specs for the final Lego sport, 2022’s Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which had a advice of simply 8GB of RAM. That quantity had been multiplied 4 occasions for TT Video games’s latest Lego anthology in as a few years. It was instantly accused of being the newest instance of PC video games coming in scorching and under-optimized.
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The studio responded on the time by saying that Lego Batman was nonetheless being optimized however one thing needed to be submitted on the spec sheet to get a Steam itemizing revealed so the sport may start collecting pre-orders and wishlists. It seems TT Video games was being conservative and vital enhancements have been made. Nobody’s going to must exit and purchase one other 16GB stick simply to run round Lego Gotham when the sport launches on Might 29.
“As a part of our ongoing testing for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Darkish Knight on PC, we’ve got revised our really helpful {hardware} specs from 32 GB RAM all the way down to 16 GB RAM,” reads a new update on February 13. “Please word, our PC specs at this stage will not be ultimate. We might be persevering with to optimize and make enhancements as we transfer nearer to launch. For extra data, go to our product web page on Steam.”
RAM scarcity fuels spec retreat
Lego Batman isn’t the primary sport to go on this really helpful PC spec rollercoaster experience. IO Interactive’s 007: First Gentle, out simply days earlier than on Might 27, additionally walked again a fairly unforgiving preliminary spec sheet earlier this 12 months. That sport additionally really helpful 32GB at first earlier than later dropping the requirement to 16GB. Its VRAM requirement dropped as nicely. IO Interactive blamed the whole thing on a miscommunication.
To place this all in perspective, say you had been somebody planning on taking part in one or each of those video games on PC. Your rig solely has 16GB of reminiscence proper now, so that you’d have initially wanted to improve. Should you’d accomplished that final fall, the favored Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory would have solely value you $80. Now it’s being bought for double that at $160, at the least when it’s that can be purchased in any respect.
These AI-fueled worth hikes don’t appear to be turning round anytime quickly. Valve already blamed these spikes for why the Steam Machine’s pricing hasn’t been revealed but and why it’s now anticipated to ship later within the first half of 2026 than beforehand deliberate. Lego Batman wasn’t the primary to budge on its spec necessities, and it undoubtedly gained’t be the final PC sport this 12 months to blink, both.
