PC avid gamers had been left scratching their heads when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight revealed its surprisingly beefy spec necessities final month. The really useful rig to play the open-world motion sport would wish a whopping 32GB of RAM. 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 important enhancements have been made. Nobody’s going to need to exit and purchase one other 16GB stick simply to run round Lego Gotham when the sport launches on Could 29.
“As part of our ongoing testing for LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight on PC, we have revised our recommended hardware specifications from 32 GB RAM down to 16 GB RAM,” reads a new update on February 13. “Please note, our PC specs at this stage are not final. We will be continuing to optimize and make improvements as we move closer to launch. For more information, visit our product page on Steam.”
RAM scarcity fuels spec retreat
Lego Batman isn’t the primary sport to go on this really useful PC spec rollercoaster experience. IO Interactive’s 007: First Mild, out simply days earlier than on Could 27, additionally walked again a reasonably unforgiving preliminary spec sheet earlier this 12 months. That sport additionally really useful 32GB at first earlier than later dropping the requirement to 16GB. Its VRAM requirement dropped as effectively. 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. For those who’d finished 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 offered for double that at $160, at the very least when it’s available for purchase 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 yet 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 positively gained’t be the final PC sport this 12 months to blink, both.
