PS5 Confirmed Backward Compatibility

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Pemalite said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Not even Windows, with all it's functions, is coming close to using that much RAM. If a console OS would take that much, it's really wasteful programming. 4GB okay, 6 is already pushing it, but 8 is absolutely out of question.

To be fair... The Xbox One was doing multi-tasking via snap (Now gone), Kinect and running multiple Operating Systems all at once via Virtualization, so Microsoft actually got allot of usability out of only 3GB, it's still more memory than Windows 7 will use though.

Sony tends to be a little less efficient on the OS front, it's Microsoft's expertise after-all...
But the Playstation 4 still needed a separate 256MB/1024MB DDR3 memory pool and separate ARM processor for background tasks and even still necessitated the need for 3.5GB of GDDR5 Ram for front-end stuff. - Not sure if they have given back that extra .5GB of Ram yet though?

The issue is... Microsoft and Sony need to make forward projections on Ram requirements for 10~ years, 3GB was a massive amount in 2013 for an OS, background tasks, apps... Today? Not so much. My Phone has more Ram.

Your phone doesn't need nearly as much for the OS. That's for the Apps, especially games, to use.

Also, 3GB wasn't even massive in 2013, Win 8.1 already used about as much, and that came out first.