Wii U vs PS4 vs Xbox One FULL SPECS (January 24, 2014)

[ethomaz]

superchunk said:

nikosx said:
@Ethomaz: "A low-power ARM processor manages PS4 while it's on standby, and freeze-frames current gameplay in memory for instant-on gaming when you power-up"

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/df-hardware-spec-analysis-playstation-4

So its just for standby and not utilized when the PS4 is playing games and such? This means that the CPU/GPU have some of their resources utlized for all that OS backend stuff beyond gaming.

That was alot of always running backend OS.

The secondary chip they talk in the conference is background tasks like downloads, uploads, video recording, etc while playing game.