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Ultr on 27 May 2011
darthdevidem01 said:
Ultr said:

rumors, rumors rumors rumors rumors rumors (wow would be embarassing if I would have included a grammar error. lol)

 

What we know: ITS GONNA SET YOUR PANTS ON FIRE, if it runs full-power!!! confirmed by sony

now Im just gonna make a point here to end this rumor rumor rumor

ok? nobody writes any comments under mine ok? no really thats it, we have to end this!

 

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I totally agree with you dude!!

oooh you! I thought you agreed with me :_D



I officialy know too much now.

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Roma on 27 May 2011

Sony is becoming smarter?? :O



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

milkyjoe on 27 May 2011

So, playing along with the rumour... The 3G model will have internal memory and double the RAM of the non-3G model. That could get interesting when developing a game to work on both. The top end model would obviously suffer a little.



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richardhutnik on 27 May 2011
Aprisaiden said:

RAM has not been offically annouced before, it was rumoured to be 512mb though, and internal storage was rumoured but SONY said it would have no internal storage back when they annouced NGP -- it was one of things they choose not to put in NGP to keep the costs down (they established ther max launch price and manufacturing price ages ago before they got anywhere near finalising spec's)

 As for RAM i think 256mb of system ram 128mb of VRAM (thats 384mb total) is a decent amount, for comparison 3DS has 128mb of RAM total (shared between cpu gpu), PSP has 32mb of RAM (2000 and 3000 series have 64mb, with 32mb reserved for chaching to improve load times), DS 4mb (DSi has 16mb with most of it reserved for its OS).

Comparing it to consoles - PS2 has 32mb, Xbox has 64mb, Wii has 64mb system RAM, 24mb VRAM, 3mb "intergrated GPU buffer RAM"(~91mb total), 360 has 512mb, PS3 has 256mb system RAM and 256mb Video RAM. 

Overall i would say the NGP has enough RAM, i think i would of prefered 512mb, but 384mb is plenty for developers to work with for a handheld and it is 12x more than PSP had for developers to use!

If I understand correctly the PS3 has 256 MB main memory, and 256 MB for video memory.  The NGP should have a smaller screen than the PS3 so it shouldn't hurt to only have 128 MB memory for the video side of things.



nightsurge on 27 May 2011
badgenome said:

Doomed as shit.





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thismeintiel on 27 May 2011
psrock said:

I don't remember Sony ever saying the amount Ram the NGP comes with. This is a rumor about a rumor. 

This.  For all we know the "new" specs may be what Sony had in mind all along.  Plus, I think it would be kinda hard for developers to have to start over with new stats for RAM in mind.  And the PSP has like 64 MB of RAM and only 2 MB of VRAM, so this is already a large improvement over it.



 

TeddostheFireKing on 27 May 2011
MrT-Tar said:

But what if Nintendo cuts the price of the 3DS to £150 ($247)?

with only a £10 price cut, I very much doubt it would help :P

on topic: It seems compared to the PS3, this is still a good amount of RAM, it also would save on costs a bit, which is always nice

the sites is unfamiliar though, and I doubt their reliability