It's possible they're working on optimizing the game at this point. I mean it's Bethesda so it's not likely but it's possible.

My old PC has lasted me almost that long. But the line-up of games this year like Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, etc. has convinced me to pull the trigger on a new PC build. I've already ordered the parts and I'm anxiously awaiting their arrival.

Intel i7 4790K Devil's Canyon processor 4.0ghz

32 GB of G.Skill RAM

512 GB SSD for my boot drive

3 TB Western Digital drive for storage

EVGA Nvidia Geforce 980 ti 6GB VRAM card

I don't doubt this system will chew up any game for the foreseeable future, especially as I just game at 1080p and the 980 ti GPU is made for single-card 4K gaming. Hopefully this computer will last me throughout the current console generation, especially if I thrown in a second 980 ti in two or three years.

For what purpose?

Are you going to run like 4 copies of the game at once?

...unless you also use the computer for something like high-end image processing / film editing, or you plan to run several copies of a multiplayer game at once, that RAM looks like maaaaaasive overkill.

Depending on size you could load the entire game into RAM and have it load lighting-quick.

Or just for future-proofing.

By the time games actually require 32 gigs of ram to run, we will be on like DDR10 ram, and the DDR3/4 stuff we have now wont even be supported.

Hey, if I could afford it I'd have 32 GB of RAM just because I could.

Haha. Everyone asks that question when I list my specs. I do 4K image processing and illustration in applications like Photoshop. The 32 GB isn't for gaming - but for rendering and using Adobe applications.

Future-proofing is also part of it - I want to be using this same PC 6-7 years from now.

RAM is insanely cheap. It cost me maybe $80 to double up from 16GB to 32GB.

Well that does make sense.

Only time I have seen people with that much RAM is doing HQ image or video editing.

I wish I had your definition of "insanely cheap".

Well, doubling a component's specs for only 5% the cost of the entire build is what I call good value. And you know $5 per GB of extra RAM is ... cheap.

I start a computer fund from the moment I get a new computer, and put $25-50 in it each month. By the time I need a new computer in 5-6 years, I have $2k - $3K sitting in the fund, which allows me to go top-of-the-line and repeat the process without a devastating financial blow.

Sounds like a good idea.

Even if they were to announce specs now, we'd wait until closer to release just because waiting usually gets you more for less. We also do the buy a better machine/keep it longer thing so I don't think specific specs would affect what we'd buy all that much. These will be our PCs for this generation of consoles so we definitely want room to grow.