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SmileyAja on 24 January 2017
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Ljink96 said:
SmileyAja said:

But he got battery precentage right, dock details right (even the fact it has no fan, which LKD at the time was certain of), weight details right, the fact that the Joy-Cons are very complex inside right, the Joy-Con color variations (though he called it orange and not red, but the "red" Joy-Con really looks more pink-ish orange than red) and I've probably missed some stuff. I might have missed other things he got right, but for more info check SpawnWave's video out here;

And I don't see why 4GB would be overkill, if Switch were to get ports from other consoles, which use half the RAM for the OS and the other half for games, Switch is seemingly going to have a very simple OS to conserve RAM, so if it consumed around 500 MB to 1 GB, developers would have around the same amount of RAM to work with as they do on other consoles. And 4GB isn't that much more expensive than 2GB, they're definetly not paying a premium. You have 200 dollar phones with 6 GB of RAM, it probably doesn't cost as much as one would assume. 

Hehe, you watch Spawn Wave too! Cool! 

You also make a really smart point. Switch's OS seems very simple and maybe that's why Nintendo has passed some online functions to your smart device, such as voice chat. But since it is so simple and if it does use 500MB-1GB of RAM for the OS, having access to 3GB Ram is about what devs on PS4 and Xbox one have to work with. 

But....where the hell did you see a 200$ phone with 6 gigs of ram??? Google Searches...dear God, you're right! Those phones seem to be from Honk Kong or Shenzhen but still, that's crazy! Most flagship phones these days are only equipped with 3 gigs and they still cost a fortune...

Yeah, it might seem bonkers but while RAM is fairly important it isn't as expensive or limited these days for mobile devices as it used to be, most flagships these days have 4 or 6 GB of RAM, and the new Zenfone will have 8 and budget phones from China will follow in a period of a few months. Though you will find that RAM isn't a good measure for performance, these cheap phones have noticeably weaker processors and GPUs which is more important than RAM by quite a bit.

Yup, love SpawnWave, glad he embraced the Foxconn leak.