haha yes.   Ok let me explain it this way.  You can make something sound much better than what it is by playing around with umbers.  I'll use an example.

Let's say you are reading a bottle oon a soda and it says 1 out of every 10 people will win an award.  That sounds goo right?  Now how does 10 out of 100 sounds?  how abound 100 out of 1000?  or 1000 out of 10,000.  Now 10,000 out of 100,000.  That number is sounds worst with higher numbers than lower numbers.

In this case it does in fact have 8gb but not all of those gb's are for dedicated memory which is what people are not realizing.    If they said that the OS has 2Gb and the GPU has 2GB and the RAM has 4GB it suddenly sounds worst right?  but instead they lumped it together (Which is true still) and suddenly that number appears higher than what it actually is for games.  

THis comes down to a difference of gamers and developers.  Gamers who dont realize this gets excited due to the high number.  Developers also get excited but not for the same reason, they can play around with those numbers and they actually know what it means, where as you the gamer really doesnt.

This is why i said it was a beautiful PR move and it obviously was or else it wouldnt be all over forumes right now ;)

the way i see it... the thing was a media conference dedicated to unveil details about the PS4. the target was public in general, those kind of details are unnecessary because, like you say, the general public don't know much about hardware. So, there is no PR move, despite your belief, that is the simple way to put it, so unacknowledged people can understand. What is dedicated to games ,bla bla bla tech stuff, is a matter for a developers conference...
The OS footprint is unconfirmed so, saying its going to be 2Gb has the same value as i saying it will be 768Mb; the OS is still in development, so a good guess is, even Sony can only guess the final size of the OS footprint.

BTW, the beauty of it all was the surprise of 8 vs the 4 rumored, not some stunt to fool people like you imply.

BTW2 @OP
the meltdowns would be big, but your amusement about it would be in the same ball park of the claims SOME sony fans did after 02/20 -> proof there is good and bad people in all sides of this "battle"...

the way i see it... the thing was a media conference dedicated to unveil details about the PS4. the target was public in general, those kind of details are unnecessary because, like you say, the general public don't know much about hardware. So, there is no PR move, despite your belief, that is the simple way to put it, so unacknowledged people can understand. What is dedicated to games ,bla bla bla tech stuff, is a matter for a developers conference...
The OS footprint is unconfirmed so, saying its going to be 2Gb has the same value as i saying it will be 768Mb; the OS is still in development, so a good guess is, even Sony can only guess the final size of the OS footprint.

BTW, the beauty of it all was the surprise of 8 vs the 4 rumored, not some stunt to fool people like you imply.

BTW2 @OP
the meltdowns would be big, but your amusement about it would be in the same ball park of the claims SOME sony fans did after 02/20 -> proof there is good and bad people in all sides of this "battle"...

Yeah, doing all that and at the end of the day still being beaten by the Playstation 3.  And there's really no reason to suspect that xbox will blow up next gen because they don't have the momentum on their side now or they'd be winning the console race each and every week, but they're not coming out on top each and every every week these days in the dedicated console market are they?  Somebody else is.

-_-  Ive said a few times now that it is a big leap.  i dont know if you are ignoring that or not. 

iam not ignoring... its a fact, the leap is there on sony, MS and nintendo new consoles (bigger is Sony and MS, but nintendo users are fine with that and so should everyone else). what i was debating with you its the "but" you imply in the end of your sentences.
no bigy. MS will state also that has 8Gbs of memory and its not going to give any words on the OS footprint because its unnecessary. if the gamers want the "behind the scene" features, they will use resources, but its for "the better experience", its a package, games + feat. the whole memory its needed for that, so they brag about the whole memory... its not a sony exclusive, its not a games industry exclusive, its not even a business exclusive...

I agree with that.  Every company makes things look better than what they are.  I am jist explaining what it actually means though because people dont know.

i think you are giving to little credit to people here, here people knows about OS and some other stuff... that was my issue with the whole thing.
the ones praising PS4 memory to the heavens do know about OS and shared memory between CPU and GPU, and yet they feel its awesome, and it is, not as much as some mitgh believe, but in the end, it is...
relax... you will feel all that awesomeness when MS anounce, in the mean time, let others have their fun...

I know it is, did they say when? Saying it's going to be on the ps4 without actually giving a release date still could mean it's timed. You're right though. I haven't watched the conference.

As much as I respect you, I have to say to you: This is no "lmfao" matter, Microsoft will not want to look like "the brother with the tiny dick" in the next gen man, and I say that as a day one PS4 buyer, they will have better specs.