Machiavellian said:
platformmaster918 said:
Machiavellian said:
One thing I can see more ram helping is creating a ram disk. Since the expected behavior for Sony and MS next gen console is to always be on. Developers can keep the state of the games in memory and it only takes secs for you to get back to your place in your game. Depending on how much memory is reserved for this state, you could have a few games in this state and easily move between one or the other with little fuss.
I believe Sony and MS will do this with whatever other functions they support like true multi tasking. Switching between open apps like Nextflix, Hulu and other streamers
Maybe what separate Sony and MS is how much will be reserved for other functions and how much will be available for games. |
So basically exactly what Sony said it would do in their press conference? I believe their exact words were "the play session is stored in RAM" when they were talking about instantaneously turning it back on.
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Exactly. MS is rumored to reserve 3GB for the OS which is a lot. The last rumor concerning the PS4 was 1GB which is pretty small with 8GB system. I believe both systems will be somewhere in the middle
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Which is really nice since I play in between classes on weekdays and it really is longer than you think between booting up the system, booting up the game, loading your game, and waiting for the world to load. Also I don't want to leave my PS4 on in an apartment that will probably be pretty hot once spring rolls around (generally wouldn't want to leave it on long with a launch system because even the 10% YLOD had me worried let alone 50% RROD)
