Avalanche Studios explained that they needed to "maximize the potential" of the newer consoles to deliver the "core vision" of the wasteland. The massive open-world environments and complex physics-based vehicular combat proved too taxing for the limited 512MB of RAM on the PS3.
: The game's world is surrounded by "The Big Nothing," a treacherous area of sand and storms that serves as the map's boundary but can be briefly explored for high-risk scavenging [30]. mad max ps3