PS4.1 Prediction

[eFKac]

JoeTheBro said:

eFKac said:

JoeTheBro said:

eFKac said:

ahh so it's simply the secondary ARM chip, the title had me suspicious, but it's no discovery since it was announced and of course the Gb instead of GB which I never pay attention to.

Yeah so I have no idea what Joe is talking about, at best the PS4.0 in the "full game mode" has an additional power of 256MB of DDR3 RAM and a small, most probably low clocked ARM chip. Where is the gain in that? Or what I am missing?

It's not that the secondary chip is used for the game, but that the chip is used for absolutely everything but the game. Basically 100% of the CPU, GPU, and RAM are given for the game to use.

Ok I get it now. What are the current figures...? 5.5GB + 1GB flexible for games, rumoured 1 Jaguar core reserved for OS, no info about GPU power reserved for anything but games. (correct me everywhere I'm wrong) and they would have to fill that all in the secondary chip for the PS4.0 to be fully forward compatible 1:1 in games with the PS4.1?

 

They'd cram as much as they could in the secondary area, but mostly the features would just be disabled. Right now you can be surfing the web, have music going, have netflix paused, and be in the middle of a game. When PS4.0 plays 4.1 games it loses the ability to multitask and all other non essential features. It would basically be a core gamer's dream with games getting 100% of the system power (minus the secondary chip area). Since casuals and many others enjoy the non gaming features, the PS4.1 is avaliable which has a beefed up secondary chip allowing all of those non gaming features to run there.

Ohh ok now I at last totally get the idea. I would be even all for it. I just don't know if it would be worth it for Sony to consider it. How much difference would you expect? (and please don't show me the GoW video, it's nice but diminishing returns need to be considered in)