PlayStation 4 gives up to 5.5GB of RAM to game developers

[Chandler]

brendude13 said:

Chandler said:
Well that 15 min background recording has to be stored somehwere.

...Hard drive?

Afaik the PS4 storage is still a HDD. I am not talking about the part where the user decides that the last couple minutes were pretty good so he saves it. Yeah, that goes to the HDD, obviously. I am talking about the part where the console is constantly recording gameplay in the background. Always. Sending this data constantly to the HDD would mean that the disc inside is spinning all the time, and that is not good in terms of power consumption, in terms of heat, in terms of noise and most importantly, in terms of MTBF.