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xl-klaudkil on 30 October 2016
onionberry said:
bigtakilla said:

Who's saying 4.5 and 5?

"Neither system allocates all of that RAM to game developers - some is reserved to run their operating systems.

PS4 reserves up to 3.5GB for its operating system, leaving developers with 4.5GB, according to documentation. They can sometimes access an extra 1GB of "flexible" memory when it's available, but that's not guaranteed."

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-vs-xbox-720-which-is-better-1127315/2

what is an xbox 720?

 

ps4 uses 5gb of ddr4 for ps4

with the ps4 pro they added a extra 1 gb slower ddr3 but that gives the ddr4 500mb more upting it to 5.5gb for games.

 

oficial sony statement.



 

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WagnerPaiva on 30 October 2016
onionberry said:

Once again, I see reports and I see people jumping to conclusions.

The PS4 reserves 3.5 of ram for the os, what does it means? the ps4 has 4.5 gb of ram for games, and it's a "powerful" home console. If the switch has a simplistic and not demanding os, they could use less ram for the os, and 3 to 3.5 gb of ram for games. For contex, xbox uses 3gb of 8gb, so in paper the xbox has more ram than the ps4, but guess what? does not matter, not one bit. Ram is not going to be a problem for western developers like some are saying? why? because game engines are scalable and if your game can run with 5 gb of ram, optimization can make a game run with 3 gb of ram.

so let's say the rumor is true.

Ps4. 4.5 gb of ram

xbox one. 5 gb of ram

switch 3 to 3.5 gb of ram, or guess what? 4gb of ram for games if  they could use the wholeee 4 gb of ram if the os doesn't interfiere when playing games, something like the gamecube. But what about other functions? just like the wii u gamepad, a quick launch menu for apps while playing games. Nintendo does stuff like this, even the os of the wii u uses just 1gb of ram and that was made as a home console, not as a hybrid.

it's not just about numbers friends, we have to wait for the details.

and it uses cartridges, so, it is different than the PS4 and Xbox One. My Xbox One can not play anything till it spend hours installing and then downloading some stupid patch, the same goes to the Ps4. A retail game installed 30GB of data in my HDD, I say this is bravo sierra, how come??? It is stupid and my 500GB HDD is full as we speak.



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setsunatenshi on 30 October 2016
xl-klaudkil said:
onionberry said:

"Neither system allocates all of that RAM to game developers - some is reserved to run their operating systems.

PS4 reserves up to 3.5GB for its operating system, leaving developers with 4.5GB, according to documentation. They can sometimes access an extra 1GB of "flexible" memory when it's available, but that's not guaranteed."

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-vs-xbox-720-which-is-better-1127315/2

what is an xbox 720?

 

ps4 uses 5gb of ddr4 for ps4

with the ps4 pro they added a extra 1 gb slower ddr3 but that gives the ddr4 500mb more upting it to 5.5gb for games.

 

oficial sony statement.

I think you made a couple of typos there, i'll let you figure out where



onionberry on 30 October 2016
xl-klaudkil said:
onionberry said:

"Neither system allocates all of that RAM to game developers - some is reserved to run their operating systems.

PS4 reserves up to 3.5GB for its operating system, leaving developers with 4.5GB, according to documentation. They can sometimes access an extra 1GB of "flexible" memory when it's available, but that's not guaranteed."

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/consoles/ps4-vs-xbox-720-which-is-better-1127315/2

what is an xbox 720?

 

ps4 uses 5gb of ddr4 for ps4

with the ps4 pro they added a extra 1 gb slower ddr3 but that gives the ddr4 500mb more upting it to 5.5gb for games.

 

oficial sony statement.

ok that's good to know



Ck1x on 30 October 2016
setsunatenshi said:
Ck1x said:

Well the SCD patent wasn't about expanding the actual initial devices hardware capabilities it was about assisting the overall experience in achieving something more through add on hardware...

if only there was a peripheral that once did that...

 

oh right...

 

i'm pretty sure I had one too at some point :)

in short, it's not going to happen, if something they will launch an upgraded tablet a few years down the line and that's all the upgrade we'll get

So if you had said something even more modern like the Razor Blade and the Razor Core then I would agree with you, but it really seems like you aren't trying to contribute anything of value in these threads with saying 32x!



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setsunatenshi on 30 October 2016
Ck1x said:

So if you had said something even more modern like the Razor Blade and the Razor Core then I would agree with you, but it really seems like you aren't trying to contribute anything of value in these threads with saying 32x!

you're free to dream anything you want, i'm just telling you there's no way it's going to happen especially in a handheld. if Nintendo wants the same game to be played in the TV and portable, there can't be some 'expansion' to the dock. it would render the whole concept pointless.

i could go on and on with plenty of reasons why it's not going to happen, but you can dismiss them all as personal opinion. too bad we can't fast forward time a few years and then see who was right afterall



wombat123 on 30 October 2016

As long as the Switch can do 720p 60fps for multiplats, I'm good.



Conina on 30 October 2016
Pyro as Bill said:

I'll just leave this here.

 

Did you also understand these charts and that they are pretty meaningless without more context (frametimes, game settings, additional graphic RAM...)? 

Or did you just copypasted some random part of an article you suspected to make an argument?



setsunatenshi on 30 October 2016
Conina said:
Pyro as Bill said:

I'll just leave this here.

 

Did you also understand these charts and that they are pretty meaningless without more context (frametimes, game settings, additional graphic RAM...)? 

Or did you just copypasted some random part of an article you suspected to make an argument?

i assumed it was a troll post, probably wrongly :D



Ck1x on 30 October 2016
setsunatenshi said:
Ck1x said:

So if you had said something even more modern like the Razor Blade and the Razor Core then I would agree with you, but it really seems like you aren't trying to contribute anything of value in these threads with saying 32x!

you're free to dream anything you want, i'm just telling you there's no way it's going to happen especially in a handheld. if Nintendo wants the same game to be played in the TV and portable, there can't be some 'expansion' to the dock. it would render the whole concept pointless.

i could go on and on with plenty of reasons why it's not going to happen, but you can dismiss them all as personal opinion. too bad we can't fast forward time a few years and then see who was right afterall

Well if you have a crystal ball to speak with such certainty, then I'll let you do that on your own... As of this moment I'm choosing to go by what Nintendo has told us, that they haven't revealed all of the features of the Switch just yet. Until you become the head of technology firm on the level of Nintendo or Nvidia, I really don't think you have any merit to say what they are or aren't doing in the future!