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Squilliam said:
If it had used 320mb of ram then it would have likely required to use a 192bit bus to address that memory and thats something which would have kept the costs much higher over the lifetime of the machine and cost them hundreds of millions of dollars just from the extra cost of the motherboard.

This.

The last thing the PS3's architechture needed was to be more expensive.