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walsufnir on 28 July 2013
Conegamer said:
So now we're assuming some small dev knows what's going on, then? And we are using GAF for a source? Alright then. Though I am not going to take this devs word any more seriously than the rumour. Because, well, they didn't know how much RAM the system had until E3.


Reading the threads over fast few weeks I got the feeling nothing more is important than small indie-devs.



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Xen on 28 July 2013
DJEVOLVE said:
This thread exploded with posts. LOL I just wanted to be included and hang out with the cool kids. lOL Well it's obvious they want to try to match Xbox ones multi-features.

Not really... at least as far as amount of RAM given is concerned..

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=165370&page=1#



Osc89 on 28 July 2013
DJEVOLVE said:
Figgycal said:
DJEVOLVE said:
This thread exploded with posts. LOL I just wanted to be included and hang out with the cool kids. lOL Well it's obvious they want to try to match Xbox ones multi-features.

I doubt that 3.5 is an accurate number and also doubt that Sony wants to have T.V. functionality.



If they don't follow XBox one they will lost this gen.  Sorry but thats what I think. People want more and more.


Given there were more TV features on the PS3 than the 360, chances are Sony will have more this time around as well. It's just that they have probably realised you don't try and get the early adopters on anything non-gaming related.



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Figgycal on 28 July 2013
DJEVOLVE said:
Figgycal said:
DJEVOLVE said:
This thread exploded with posts. LOL I just wanted to be included and hang out with the cool kids. lOL Well it's obvious they want to try to match Xbox ones multi-features.

I doubt that 3.5 is an accurate number and also doubt that Sony wants to have T.V. functionality.



If they don't follow XBox one they will lost this gen.  Sorry but thats what I think. People want more and more.

I don't know if it's "following" as much as it is people expecting both consoles to do certain things. I was specifically mentioning the T.V. functionality. I couldn't care less if they did voice commands and I doubt anyone will tout that as a must-have feature. But multitasking and a better web browser than the ps3's - I agree- if they can't do that, they lost.



late_release on 28 July 2013
Figgycal said:

I want to say people on GAF and IGN are trolling with the "preorder cancelled" comments, but people react in the strangest ways.

Rumor: Xbox one is getting 12 gigs of ram. Headsets will be included in Xbox one. Kinect-free xbox incoming.
Random comment: Hurr Durh PS4 preorder cancelled.

People have a habit of taking rumors without the necessary grain of salt. Just relax and wait for something to get confirmed and then continue to use your brain from that point on.

Some people don't have enough responsibility to preorder a 4 or 500 dollar product - especially with how fast their moods swing.

M$ probably paid trolls to write such hideous and false bs



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Figgycal on 28 July 2013
Osc89 said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Figgycal said:
DJEVOLVE said:
This thread exploded with posts. LOL I just wanted to be included and hang out with the cool kids. lOL Well it's obvious they want to try to match Xbox ones multi-features.

I doubt that 3.5 is an accurate number and also doubt that Sony wants to have T.V. functionality.



If they don't follow XBox one they will lost this gen.  Sorry but thats what I think. People want more and more.


Given there were more TV features on the PS3 than the 360, chances are Sony will have more this time around as well. It's just that they have probably realised you don't try and get the early adopters on anything non-gaming related.


I forgot that ps3 already had the dvr and tv reciever functionality over in japan, but I couldn't care less for it. I wouldn't be disappointed if they kept it out.



Mnementh on 28 July 2013
colafitte said:

I was expecting some serious opinions from people that really knows how this works from the great gaming sites, and what i found is more incompetent ignorance, in this case from gameinformer. They only sound like any other fanboy for me....

Our Take:
Those supposed advantages that the PS4 was set to enjoy over the Xbox One sure seem to be dropping like flies, don’t they? I’m no fan of the unbearable wait to bring up the Xbox Guide or the somewhat more manageable delay in calling up the PS3 XMB, but reducing your system’s available memory by 43 percent is a high price to pay. RAM is the most important resource for many new modes of gameplay and other innovations that developers are looking to create on next-gen consoles. I’m all for my friends list instantly popping up on screen when called for, but do I want that at the cost of another 20 AI-driven characters active in the world? That’s a much harder question.

4.5GB of GDDR5 is still a huge bonanza of high-speed memory for developers to work with in 2013, but will we still be saying that in five years when Nvidia is rolling out unified CPU/GPU architecture with 16GB of similarly fast RAM for $200 tablets? As sexy as the PS4/XB1 tech specs are today, remember that they’re broadly similar to mid/high-end PCs available right now and that technology gets faster and cheaper every day. Ten years is a long time to lock in a hardware spec for, and I question the wisdom of both Sony and Microsoft cutting their systems off at the knees like this.

Fanboy? They speak about both PS4 and XBO the same, they sound pretty reasonable. Not the typical fanboy if you ask me.



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Zappykins on 28 July 2013
NinjaHanzo said:
Zappykins said:
But seriously, I wonder what they are doing with such a large OS? I doesn't have a Kinect running and voice sampling going all the time. So what could they be doing?

The new Kinect has it own hardware, so theorically it should'nt use so much resources from OS or RAM.

I thought one of them was part of that '3 Operating System' they talked about on the Xbox One.  Each one using 1gb of RAM.  Plus a version of Windows 8.something.  The Kinect is sampling something like a couple billion pieces of data a second.  It's bound to use up some memory.

I still think it seems like a huge amount, specifically, when you remember now freakin' tiny the Xbox 360's OS is.  It's a tiny, tiny bit of memory.

I know they both are DVRing the games people are playing a bit, but what else do they have in store that they have to reserve such a big chunk of memory?

Even the WiiU just used 1 GB for it's OS. People thought that was a huge amount.



 

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colafitte on 28 July 2013
Mnementh said:
Fanboy? They speak about both PS4 and XBO the same, they sound pretty reasonable. Not the typical fanboy if you ask me.

 


Brian Provinciano, developer of retro city rampage, in his article, critizised gameinformer too for their headline calling it "sensasionalist" and "poor even at the time of the initial rumor", and this was long after I wrote that it sound fanboyish for me. So, if fanboy is not correct for you, i can call it, "amateurish".



Osc89 on 28 July 2013
Figgycal said:
Osc89 said:
DJEVOLVE said:
If they don't follow XBox one they will lost this gen.  Sorry but thats what I think. People want more and more.


Given there were more TV features on the PS3 than the 360, chances are Sony will have more this time around as well. It's just that they have probably realised you don't try and get the early adopters on anything non-gaming related.


I forgot that ps3 already had the dvr and tv reciever functionality over in japan, but I couldn't care less for it. I wouldn't be disappointed if they kept it out.


They have one for Europe as well which I use. It's a nice thing to have, but it's smart to keep it an optional feature. I imagine they'll do a similar thing this time.



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