Next-gen Xbox announcement at CES in January - rumour

[NightDragon83]

darkknightkryta said:

NightDragon83 said:
Why is everyone crapping on the rumored RAM? From what I interpreted from the way it was said in the rumor, the 2GB of DDR3 RAM is what's dedicated to the GPU, so the total system memory is likely much more than 2GB. A six-core CPU with software designed to take full advantage of it (unlike the vast majority of the PC software and games out there that don't even take full advantage of having a quad-core CPU, much less CPUs with more than 4-cores), mated with a GPU (which we haven't seen the actual specs yet) with rumored 2GB dedicated memory can easily rival any top-tier gaming rig out there today.

I don't think Microsoft will start using dedicated ram pools, considering the current and previous console only had that 1 pool.  People are complaining because if this rumour is remotely true, then the next xbox is gonna have 2 gigs of ram, which is quite puny since you can cheaply get 8.

True, but when you think about the fact that they've really been pushing the 360's multimedia capabilites over the past couple of years, and are about to really step it up by making it essentially a set-top box extension for some of the big cable and IPs out there, you gotta think that they're only going to continue down that path with the system's successor, plus factor in the rumors that the system will be operating on a Windows-8 style platform, and you have even more of a memory hog.  That would require alot of memory for multitasking, and having a single pool where the GPU is using most of it probably wouldn't be the best way to go, so it's still quite possible that they include additional RAM on board the main motherboard.

But then again this is all rumor and speculation so for all we know we're just pissing in the wind right now.