512 MB of Wii U's RAM "reserved for the OS. What's the total?

[Zim]

Seems like a lot of people are posting without reading the neogaf thread and relevant posts.

Here are some key points from it. This information comes from someone who used to be a gaming journalist in france and still has plenty of connections. His information seems to be very reliable.

The 512mb of ram was from a now earlier dev kit, he stated that this information was from 2 and a half months ago and that there will be obviously be big changes leading up to release.

Nintendo hasn't come out and said the 512mb is for the 'OS'. Merely that was the amount locked away from devs use. It is likely they are, as you would imagine, being overly cautious with the amount they will need. It is much better to keep 512mb locked away and then need 256mb, than to lock away 256mb and then need 512mb.

The potential relevance of this is that there is a very good chance that developers will soon have more ram available to them as Nintendo finalizes its side more. It is very unlikely that the full 512mb will stay locked away as things get more final.

It also is perhaps an indicator to how much ram the console will have all together. If 512mb has been locked out then it is reasonable to assume there must be at least 1gb available.

The rumoured reasons for the large amount are things such as possible video chat, being able to suspend games and then pick up where you left off later etc.