nnodley said:
Don't get your hopes up for Sony to confirm or deny this rumor now. :-p Has sony or MS ever commented on RAM OS allocation for any of their consoles? Best case scenario though is devs could potentially get 6GB-6.5GB if sony can keep the OS footprint at 1.5 or less which I personally think will be plenty till the next gen after. |
Generally speaking, companies deny or refute negative publicity or have someone else do it (i.e. a developer).
If you don't cut-off negative publicity, it tends to get away from you and out of hand. Usually you get in front of it, and control it.
Sony hasn't come out and flatly denied it. Nor have any surrogates. In fact, they've let this run the news cycle without comment and it'll have all weekend to fester. Generally, and I'm being serious not hyperbolic, that's not a good thing to do.
Microsoft let the Digital Library/DRM thing get out from under them, and when they didn't get out in front of the issue and try to control it, it completely got away from them where no matter what they tried to say or do, it fell on deaf ears.
This isn't as serious as the DRM issue was for Microsoft, but I don't think Sony should discount it completely. I'm sure they're talking to devs, so that may be the only sphere they really care about conveying the information to right now. I just think eventually they have to say something to the general public.