Adinnieken on 03 August 2013
| JoeTheBro said: This is kinda crazy. The advantage of using real memory instead of virtual memory for suspended applications offers such little improvement. Only reason it could be smart would be if Microsoft doesn't want to suspend apps but why would they do that? Best I can think of is playing a game with internet snapped to the side while a second game is in matchmaking, the youtube app is downloading a video, and you are talking on skype. Is this rare situation worth it? This kinda goes back to xbone verse ps4 ram I guess. DDDR3 is cheap so they could get a lot of it. Back then the PS4 only had 2GB of ram so Microsoft logically thought the sky was the limit with multitasking. Why would they worry when they had so much extra? Then Sony jumped to 4 and again to 8. Now Microsoft's ram plans just seem wastefull. |
Not really.
First, I believe the two consoles will have similar footprints for games and non-gaming memory needs.
Second, while Microsoft could have done a lightweight OS, the path they took allows them to provide a highly secure environment and all the features they want to offer without compromise.
