rocketpig on 26 August 2008
| greenmedic88 said: While a soft update can't create more physical memory, it can allow more physical memory to be available to developers for game engines by reducing the overhead of the operating system itself. Most are aware this is the reason why a game that requires 2 GB minimum of RAM on a PC can still run on console with only 512MB RAM. Over time, those firmware updates can (already have) reduce the amount of physical memory required for the OS, effectively freeing up more RAM to be available for the games themselves. Not as nearly as beneficial (or easy) as adding a couple RAM modules to a PC, but with consoles, firmware updates can provide limited future scalability in addressing memory constraints. |
It rarely works that way, though. If anything, firmwares almost always bloat over time, not shrink.
In any case, there won't be enough of a difference to make it even worth mentioning.
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