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[Delusibeta]

It's probably going to be nothing. This guy is just fishing for hits. Honestly, if it was something big, it would be splashed on Eurogamer's main website right now and not left up to their Spanish language affiliate to wait for Sony.

Dat is true, innit. If it was big, it'll be up on USgamer by now.

 

[i-Lo]

The question is whether this is a recent development because Cerny very recently went to IGN to give his latest interview and any major incident detrimental to PS4's ram situation would have made waves earlier.

So I am not really expecting bad news in terms of tech itself, rather its availability. But if it is to be on the tech side the OS footprint can be the of relevance.

 

[calder]

Sony down clocks the gddr5 ram?

What's below gddr5? DDR2?

6 gigs of that.

 

[artist]

I imagine a few people here will be like this tomorrow at Sony's statement:

That'd be bish with the possibility of more incoming sacrifices ..

 

[geebee]

Damn, you guys are speculating a bit too much over a couple of tweets.

 

[lunlunqq]

NO, NO, Just no... Fuck! I knew Sony would fuck this one up... they always do! NOOOoooo.......

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Based on his tweets, sounds like something they are planning to reveal in a technical article about the PS4 that Sony wants to clarify, not anything that has actually changed.

I guess we'll see.

 

[Angelus Errare]

I'm going to laugh my ass off when this turns out to be a big bunch of nothing. "Random crazy ass speculation over the smallest shit-GAF" are crazy as fuck.

I can see two possibilities:

a) GDDR5 to GDDR3
b) 3GBs reseved for the OS

both are "bad news", but not necessarily catastrophic

If there was ever a great example of nonsensical. The bold would be that example.

 

[halogamer]

I'm thinking it's nothing big. The guy is just exaggerating to get hits.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

I hope those predicting it won't be anything major are right. Sony needs to be successful this upcoming gen.

willing to take a avatar bet. Pick your poison. This will be nothing.

 

[Yawnier]

I'm thinking about what has happened recently that could lead to mindblowing news. I'm drawing a blank to be honest. Pretty boring state of affairs right now with SCE. I think there will be disappointed people if you're expecting some huge negative thing out of this. I'd take the words of Arnold the Terminator and relax.

The prophet hath spoken

 

[mugurumakensei]

I can see two possibilities:

a) GDDR5 to GDDR3
b) 3GBs reseved for the OS

both are "bad news", but not necessarily catastrophic

GDDR5 to GDDR3 would put the ram speeds at slower than wii u as GDDR3 is based on DDR2. GDDR5 and GDDR4 are based on DDR3.

 

[Frodo]

Prepare for disappointment if you are waiting for something big.

If the information was THAT hot it would already be out.

 

[Guymelef]

And yeah , some earth shattering bad news for PS4 is gonna break on Eurogamer Spain.

Eurogamer Spain translates articles from Digital Foundry.
Maybe original article is from Leadbetter and the guy does the translation

 

[zomgbbqftw]

I'm with chubigans, it's probably this guy getting official confirmation of the 20GB/s CPU bandwidth and double memory controller setup. Watch them put out an article which says the GPU bandwidth has been downgraded to 156GB/s or something like that. It will go nicely with their Xbone 192GB/s bandwidth upgrade article.

 

[TheBaronOfNA]

It basically is implying that what was seemed a bigger gap in power it ain't anymore as more info is coming out.

How so? Outside the memory mention in the past tweet doesn't even imply is a power related issue.

 

[Oppo]

It might be late in Europe due to ram supply issues. That would make sense from a Spanish tweeter.

That said, I did feel myself puckering.

 

[adixon]

Sony is probably "making a statement" as in before the site published an article about how something in the ps4 isn't as good as it sounds, they contacted Sony to ask them for comment, and Sony responded "yes, give us a day to get someone to answer your questions."

Whether this is new info or just someone sensationalizing stuff we already know like the 20 gbps cpu bandwidth, I guess we'll see when the article goes up.

 

[kaching]

A guy posted a tweet, and everyone lost their mind!

There should be a rule against claiming GAF is losing it's mind until a thread hits at least 10 pages, and I'm tempted to push that to 20, because that's when things really get crazy around here.

 

[Satchel]

I can see two possibilities:

a) GDDR5 to GDDR3
b) 3GBs reseved for the OS

both are "bad news", but not necessarily catastrophic

Id love more RAM for the OS. Given GDDR5 isn't normally the preference for OSes, wouldn't it make more sense to allocate more to compensate for the speed?

DDR3 might not be ideal for gaming related stuff, but it sure is for OS related.

 

[1st Course]

OS news I think.

 

[Napalm_Frank]

Prediction: very detailed tech info on PS4 revealing the RAM being used by OS and it will be 2GB.

Or limited EU release or some shit

 

[Valnen]

Sony would not make a statement about os ram allocation. They have never even commented on current usage. Come on guys.

The only thing I could see Sony making a statement on would be pushing the release into 2014.

 

[TheD]

It will never be a downgrade to GDDR3!
GDDR3 is not only old and out of date, but the price would likely be higher due to how rare it is these days.
And that is not even taking into account the change in memory controller it would need.

DDR3 would also need a change in memory controller and the bandwidth would hurt the PS4 badly.

I'm with chubigans, it's probably this guy getting official confirmation of the 20GB/s CPU bandwidth and double memory controller setup. Watch them put out an article which says the GPU bandwidth has been downgraded to 156GB/s or something like that. It will go nicely with their Xbone 192GB/s bandwidth upgrade article.

No, if it has one pool of RAM it will have one memory controller that then can send data other 2 buses, one to the CPU and one the GPU.

 

[Fracas]

Chúpame la polla, tio!

Tweet him that, is how Spaniards greet

Spoiler

don't do it

I'm just going to tweet him "Bueno o malo?" lol

 

[GoofsterStud]

a) I don't know, maybe that's the reason for the Sony statement?
b) what if their OS needs more than 2GB to run smoothly?

A is still impossible...without changing multiple things with the system...to close to launch.

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

Huh???????????????????????????

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=67501496&postcount=966

 

[jimmythepage]

Meh, to me it's just that the console clock that seemed the same for the console and the devkit will be lowered in the consumer mass production model.

 

[Croyles]

What's the story behind this?

Oh Cerny just mentioned in some of his keynotes that he was boo'd at one point and that some developers outright stated that Sony would be finished unless they include 8gb of GDDR5 ram.

Probably not about that though, considering the guy's recent tweets.

I won't make any predictions, cause i'm fucking clueless when it comes to hardware etc.

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

I'm thinking about what has happened recently that could lead to mindblowing news. I'm drawing a blank to be honest. Pretty boring state of affairs right now with SCE. I think there will be disappointed people if you're expecting some huge negative thing out of this. I'd take the words of Arnold the Terminator and relax.

Don't ever leave us, Verendus.

 

[Sleeplessnights]

Sony: lol, did we say PS4? We meant to say PS5! PS4 will have 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. (laughs)

that was a horrible post dude

you should be ashamed of yourself my dear

 

[Slayven]

Haven't they been carting this thing around to various people the last few weeks? If it was something big, somebody would have slipped up.

 

[Oersted]

It's midnight, what are you expecting them to do?

Spanish people,especially at this time of the year, are pretty night-active....

 

[Mik_Pad]

The PS4 will be 1 mm wider.

 

[IrishNinja]

guys i don't think we should overreact

but my sources are saying they're going sub-Wii-u, actually just wanted to recreate PS2 sales by rebranding the PS2 in a new case

..i'm gonna be honest with you here; if it bundles with Tekken Tag i'm keeping my preorder. if they can get DMC1, MGS2 & FF X out in the first year or so again i think they'll do well

 

[Kerub]

It might be late in Europe due to ram supply issues. That would make sense from a Spanish tweeter.

That said, I did feel myself puckering.

Oh, spring 2014 in europe would suck so bad.

 

[TriGen]

It sounds like it will be bad news. But all we can do is wait and see.

 

[BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO]

I'm thinking about what has happened recently that could lead to mindblowing news. I'm drawing a blank to be honest. Pretty boring state of affairs right now with SCE. I think there will be disappointed people if you're expecting some huge negative thing out of this. I'd take the words of Arnold the Terminator and relax.

/thread

 

[dragonelite]

I think it has something to do with an policy which was under NDA.
Maybe a small exclusive time period on ps4 for a devkit?

A hardware downspec is not something i think will happen.
It would make me even sad that the ceiling for next gen performance drops.
The more performance next gen console the better for pc where i do most of my gaming.

 

[DeadlyVirus]

I call bullcrap on this. This coming out just as the PS4 passed on FCC? Come on...

 

[Raymo]

Sony Bad News? It's been a long time.... Here we go.

 

[No_Style]

Sony couldn't include all 8GB of GDDR5 into the chassis so they're supplying half of it via memory card pack.

 

[maplelord93]

The FCC thing showed that the memory was still clocked at 2.75GHz so there wasn't any downgrade there...

 

[RulkezX]

Eurogamer Spain translates articles from Digital Foundry.
Maybe original article is from Leadbetter and the guy does the translation

Then it would be up on DF , the site that would generate the most hits, not a regional affiliate.

 

[Thorakai]

I'm not trusting any spanish gaming outlets after that Mario and Luigi are lovers mistranslation that popped up recently.

 

[TheLegendary]

I don't think FCC certification would preclude a spec dump.

Of course not. They can do what they want.

 

[ironchair]

3, two more mistakes and it's curtains for Sony.

Haha...strangely enough I read that in Bugs Bunny's voice.

 

[SolidSnakex]

And yeah , some earth shattering bad news for PS4 is gonna break on Eurogamer Spain.

Honestly, that's what I was thinking. Digital Foundry even recently got a chance to speak with Cerny indepth earlier this month and there were no signs of any significant changes.

 

[UraMallas]

This tweet came out this morning and no one picked up on it?

I think I might know what you're getting at but I'm not sure. Could you elaborate?

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

I'm thinking about what has happened recently that could lead to mindblowing news. I'm drawing a blank to be honest. Pretty boring state of affairs right now with SCE. I think there will be disappointed people if you're expecting some huge negative thing out of this. I'd take the words of Arnold the Terminator and relax.

Quoted for emphasis.