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Sorry, but developers having access to 7 gig does not mean that the release consoles will have access to 7.

Lets say you have 2 people working on a game, which is near completion. One knows nothing about programming, all he is doing is checking to see how well the game is balanced.

The other employee knows nothing about gameplay balance, he really wants to be programming supercomputers to work more efficiently. All he knows how to do is make games run more efficiently.

Because the third employee, who umade the game up to its current point was being rushed by his manager to produce somethign that would produce nice screenshots, the game is full of memory leaks. It requires 7 gig of ram to currently work.

Employee 1 thinks it will take him 2 months to sort the balance issues out, and Employee 2 thinks it will take him 2 months to get the game to only require 4 gig of Ram. If the dev kits allow 7 gig of ram to be used, the game will release in 2 months. If it only allows 4 gig, it will take 4 months.

tl;dr They did NOT announce that the PS4 console has 7 gig of usable Ram.