Memory management is one of (many) cornerstones of tech quality for console games. Proper memory management can decrease amount of bugs, increase product quality (for example, by eliminating desperate pre-release asset shrinking) and generally make life way easier – long term, that is. Improper memory management can wreak havoc. For example, any middleware without means to control/override memory management is, well, often not an option; any subsystem that uncontrollably allocates memory ca...
