@Colourful_Hippie said:
Looks like PS4 is going with 4 and the next Xbox is going with 8 but it's locking away 3 gigs of that of that for the system. Sony is using DDR5 and Xbox is going with DDR3. Either way it's still somewhat good and finally gives a lot of room.
Sony will do the same with its RAM though.
Initially the PS3 used approximately half of its 256MB of ram to run the OS. They have reduced that over time though.
And DDR5 Ram, Have you gotten a bit confused there? DDR4 has only just been nailed down and won't be commercially available til later this year or next year, DDR5 has probably literally just started being designed and that won't be out for at least 4 years. Now you could mean GDDR5 Ram, but 4GB of that is a bit of overkill for a Graphics Card, not to mention Sony have financial issues as it is.
8GB of DDR3, I can buy that because for one it is an actual component that exists. But 3GB of RAM for the OS, Windows 8 has been run on under 512mb and its fair to guess thats the base they will build their OS on and not being a PC a console theoretically has a lot less to do on the OS side of things unless of course they are gunning for a Media Center. Kinect won't come into it, originally Kinect had its own hardware built in but cost was a serious issue so they stripped it down the for 360 and had the 360 do the work. This time around they don't have the same issues, Kinect will likely be driven by its own hardware. I still can't buy the 3GB figure, its either future proofing or they literally stuck Vista on that thing.
The main problem of the PS3 was RAM, simple as. Cross Chat never happened because of it, its taken so long to get Skyrim in a reasonable state because of it. The last thing Sony want to do is screw up on RAM again.
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