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Figgycal on 27 July 2013
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Daisuke72 said:

3GB for the OS?

I'm sorry but that's fucking insane. The Xbone has 3 operating systems and provides a seamless experience with apps and switching over, AND multitasking. The PS4 will use a variation of Linux and it looks way more simplistic than a fucking windows kernal.

What the fuck is eating up all this RAM? Wouldn't the 15 min recording stream to the hard drive? If not, then fuck that feature.

In hindsight Sony had never come clear about how much memory was reserved for the games and I now see why, they knew their fans would be disappointed.

I'm tired of these fucking console makers being discrete over the true specifications of the console. I feel like they're trying to trick their consumers, fuck that. To be honest the PS4 is starting to look less and less appealing to me. I might just stick to PC Gaming to be honest Sony is losing me as a fan.

 

The amount of ram used by a console's OS will probably be reduced as the console ages; whatever the numbers might be now, are subject to change in the future. The Xbox One probably won't need the 3gb or ram in a year or 2. But Sony on the other hand had a problem this gen with not having enough ram for their OS and it suffered because of it. No game is going to need more than 4 gigs of ram for quite a while, so in the meantime Sony is probably looking to future proof their console. 

I still don't get why having the same amount of ram available to developers as the xbox one makes the console any less attractive, but more of that ram will become available to developers if they need it in the future. And Sony still has yet to comfirm how much ram is actually being used for the OS; 3.5 is still uncomfirmed.