GAF sucks but sometimes they provide us with gold.

haha to this sonyfailboys who celebrate since month because of the ps4s 8GB ram and now it only will be 5 GB.

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LOL

We will also most likely see a firmware update to fix the previous firmware update. Yes MS can do the same thing but they are not that stupid. 

OT: well this is surprising, the ps4 only runs on OS and uses more ram than the one which has 3? Not a tech expert but isn’t that highly inefficient? Goes to show Sony should just stick to hardware and leave software to better companies. 

Jeesh, what's with these OS's and there enormous memory usage these days :-/

Anyways, 4.5-5.5 is still plenty, and it will probably only increase after firmware updates down line.

This is surprising how, exactly?

The PS4 is constantly recording the last 15 minutes of high-def gameplay. Where did everyone think all that live data was magically going to be stored? Streamed to the hard disk?? No way a typical 2.5 SATA notebook drive could handle those data writes while simultaneously reading game data. RAM is the logical place to store that 15 min backlog of gameplay.

Even at that, I'm sure Sony is being very conservative in what they are allocating to the OS/video capture cache vs. game RAM. I'm sure as they reduce the footprint and increase efficiency of the OS/video cache they will 'give back' memory to game developers to use. It happened at least a couple times durting PS3 lifetime. Much much harder to try to reclaim RAM for the OS later on than to give it back.

Good news, 8GB was too much, developers would have gotten lazy and release unoptimized games

RIF.

When the PS4 only had 4GB, apparently the OS only used 512MB of RAM.  That would have given a game 3.5GB to play in.

3.5 gigs of the high speed ram for the OS? Is that normal?

At least it should be a smooth experience that way right. Not all bad

So much for 7 gigs lol. All the sad faces this news has brought.