Squilliam said:
An Xp computer nowadays is expected to have about 1gb of ram. Since XP uses about 180mb its about comparable in ratio to the PS3 which uses 30mb of 256mb. The PS3 used MORE in the past when 80mb or 1/3rd of available ram was used for the operating system! I think its quite an overblown concept that the PC operating system uses more ram when the PS3 one uses relatively about the same. However I don't think the tunnel shooter syndrome is caused by an abundance of ram now is it?
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I just want to add that the best way for akuma587 to have stated his argument would be "Consoles used to require a lot less RAM than PCs because they didn't have to worry about running a bulky OS"
The truth is that in the last generation the "Operating System" of most consoles was not really a persistent operating system in the same way that all three consoles have today. It used to be that the "Operating System" was included on the game's disc, and that meant that 99.5% of system resources was directly useable by the game. Today, all three systems have some form of operating system running in their background that is eating some resources and (as you said) I suspect that the proportion of resources eaten by these operating systems is similar to the proportion of resources eaten by windows on an appropriately powerful system.
