Will the PS4 dwarf the specs of the next XBox? If so, why you think so?

[richardhutnik]

Netyaroze said:

kain_kusanagi said:
Sony doubled their RAM. That's expensive. Why would they do that. The only reason would be to offset some other advantage they're spies found out about the Nextbox. It's far too early and I don't like rumors, but Sony wouldn't all of a sudden decide to spend that kind of money on each PS4 unless the Nextbox has something going on under the hood that they felt they needed to respond to.

Yeah but I think the doubling of the ram has to do with non graphics related stuff Sony probably wanted to compete with the features and OS stuff MS wants. 4gb just for games is enough to feed the Gpu and Cpu. The other 4gb is probably for certain OS features and a smooth and quick overall experience plus headroom for future projects, more flexibility and as a gift for developers . This was clearly a response to the 8gb from MS. What the "spies" found out was that the Xbox had 8gb. 

Developers were requesting 8GB of RAM to work with, so it makes sense that Sony would give it to them.  Having the developers only work with 4GB of RAM was actually good practice, to be honest and a good way to limit leaks.