Sure that's not a typo for Durango?
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Sure that's not a typo for Durango?
What's amazing is that it's not the first time it happened!
He's not the CEO is a consultant
Captain Tuttle
Member
It is fun I have to admit. There are a small number of very vocal Sony fans who will be eating some crow. I never trust these companies.
So has Sony commented on this yet?
BRocknRolla
Member
I haven't got a clue about the hardware/software differences between the systems, and what that will mean for performance, but that last sentence can't be states enough. Launch games are still going to end up being "launch" games like every other gen. All of them developed without full knowledge of the hardware and none achieving near the full potential of the console.
Canis lupus
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Check out this tweet and recent ones from the Octodad dev.
https://twitter.com/PTibz/status/360803893501902851
https://twitter.com/PTibz/status/360803893501902851
awesomebro
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The way people are acting in this thread is crazy. Do you play RAM? Jeez. This is OD. So what if 3.5gb is reserved for the OS? Have any devs said 4.5gb is not enough? Have you seen a disadvantage of the memory reservation? Have people even used the console to make judgement about it? This reaction is crazy and hinges on borderline illiteracy. You play video games not RAM! If the games are good then why bother about the hardware?
Crimson_Gold
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That and broken tubs
Hmmm yeah, I didn't realize that there were this many Halo fans pissed off at the direction the series went, I'm assuming.
Yeah, but no multiplatform titles would have made any real use of a large memory advantage anyway. Reserving just 1 GB, like some people want, would be a mistake and may render them incapable of competing with some really popular OS feature (like party chat this gen).
RibbedHero
Member
I'm guessing you're a Halo and Durante fanboy with a username like yours.
The word was 512MB->1GB for the OS but I was certain Sony would use 2GB out of 8 once I heard MS was using an enormous 3GB.
2 cores out of 8 are used for the OS.
2 GB out of 8 should be used for the OS.
Ratios should be the same, I say. The same! It's just more elegant that way
As others said, Sony must've figured out no dev is going to use more than 4.5GB for the first year or 2 and they want to spend their current OS development time on features instead of optimizations (so they will look good compared to Microsoft's Xbone) then steadily drop the size of the OS until it hits 2GB.
2 cores out of 8 are used for the OS.
2 GB out of 8 should be used for the OS.
Ratios should be the same, I say. The same! It's just more elegant that way
As others said, Sony must've figured out no dev is going to use more than 4.5GB for the first year or 2 and they want to spend their current OS development time on features instead of optimizations (so they will look good compared to Microsoft's Xbone) then steadily drop the size of the OS until it hits 2GB.
lmfao @ 56GIGBBGOOTS?!
RedAssedApe
Banned
So they pretty much confirm the OS memory reserve, but say it should be plenty enough?
And rams
Freaky Fred
Banned
I think it was a joke, but its hard to tell in this thread
Rollo Tomasi
Member
No longer SSJ God Goku though
Always been SSJ3 vs Majin Vegeta, hell Xbone has even been redeeming itself over the past few weeks . . . lol
It's in quotes for a reason.
Obviously something going over my head, lol.
...especially when none of the launch games will have been designed to take advantage of '8GB' (or rather 8 minus the OS reserve) and no subsequent games in production will be aiming for that either.
Miles Quaritch
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12 to 15 year generation inbound.
FlutterPuffs
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So in layman's terms the status of the PS4's ram is this:
And in a year or two, we'll get this?
And in a year or two, we'll get this?
gundamkyoukai
Member
This was to be expect with games being made on non final devs kits and cross gen games it would take a year plus to see what these system can do .
Still i thinking that PS4 will be around 2GB for OS when every thing done .
Do more catching up. They're looking to be about equal.
Gonna edit this to stop anymore replies: I meant in terms of RAM allocation to OS.
PS5 is just PS4 with the extra 1 GB of reserved RAM allotted to games.
Consoles are dead long live the tablets.
SEGAvangelist
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R3TRO
Member
Lol, this thread man.
Which are exactly the people who are most likely to get your system on launch; which are exactly the people who parroted the '8 GB GDDR5' and the presumably 7GB for devs as a swaying reason to get the PS4.
Sony was happy to let that go on and not correct or divulge any further details about the allocation because it suited their image as being the gamer's choice and all that. And their silence on that front is also why now this news is met strongly by people. It would have been much less of a 'big deal' if Sony detailed the allocation X weeks after the console announcement.
Devs are probably switching to WiiU now. I mean just look at Activision. Sony had a good run.
Stone Ocean
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Try catching up a couple more times.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Joke post? Joke post.
Kazuma Kiryu
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I honestly can't tell right now if some people are just being ignorant or joking.
TheJollyCorner
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I see this being used as an example, but the amounts of ram we are talking about are *huge* in comparison to PS3/360 where a few meg either way was important. We're talking about gigabytes of ram. What background feature could possibly need that?
If there is a foreground app that needs more, maybe a 3DS approach where some apps require you to end your gaming session could be done?
dragonbane
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The games don't need to adapt, because no game needs so much RAM right now. Devs have said they really want to use all the RAM, but struggle to even fill 4 GB of it.
When the time comes that devs need more RAM, Sony will be ready to give it to them. This will be late 2014 at the earliest.
um, no they're not.
Ps4 has the same 1080p Shaders? Doesn't Titanfall require at least that much memory to make those shaders fit?
If it comes to Sony it will provably be sacrificed to only 60fps at 720p. That's ok, but I'll stick with the One imo
I can guarantee you that the majority of first day purchasers do not know or have any interest in RAM allocation.
Amount of RAM? Sure. But that allocation is a couple of steeps too deep.