Karak
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About Durango's OS...
... is it that crazy to think there'll be software compatibility with Windows 8 or, more likely, Windows 8 RT?
If that's the case they might want enough RAM to have a good RT experience. But moreover, they may be thinking about the fact that this is going to be one of their main boxes in the home for the next 5 years...and may be thinking about windows 9 rt and windows 10 rt app demands over the product's lifecycle.
I don't know, just a thought. Assuming the 3GB thing is correct. Which it might not be, as others are suggesting.
Actually. Another poster mentioned something about 3GB ceilings and how that might go up and down depending on what uses a game dev wanted from the OS and additional features. So I spent the last hour and did indeed find a couple random bits about that. It could be that MS knows that 5gb's for games is MORE than enough and decided to allow for 1.5 more headroom than they had originally specced as a recent target. Meaning if a game dev wanted full recording they had to allot a specific amount but if they didn't they could keep that for their game or whatever else.
Frankly that is the ONLY thing that makes sense.
Actually the only thing is that it is still 1:1.5 BUT the above makes far more sense now that I went scouring.