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F'DUPTON 3: Back in the Tub with 5.0/5.5/6/7/several Inches of RAM-Flavoured Water
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LukasTaves
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Imagine if that was a Sony move to out developers they suspect are leaking info.
Dictator93
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Good. Return to sprites ｷﾀ━━━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ
━━━━━━ｯYea pretty much. We don't even have any clarification on the matter.
Plus, a console graphic whore should be an oxymoron by now. It's nice to admire what devs can push out of limited hardware, but be real with yourself. If you want the most out of your games from a visual and technical level; you're doing it wrong and it shouldn't be why you like consoles lol.
And WOWLOL at that post that's shitting on Jonathan Blow, what the hell lol.
or until Fuchur dies :/
I think it is more that people who do software development are all wondering how .. of what he has showed.. could that possibly use 5 gigs when games like last of us and gears of war used less than 512.
That's reserved for Kojima threads.
correct. i found it, too. ctr + f didn't work the first time.
BruiserBear
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This thread got sad really quickly. It's like Xbox peeps have this pent up anger about the past 2 months and it's time to party like it's 1999 because the PS4 ram is now equal in quantity to the XB1, while ignoring the fact that there is still a major deficit in the all important bandwidth department.
I say this as someone who is likely buying an XB1 this fall, and not the PS4.
I say this as someone who is likely buying an XB1 this fall, and not the PS4.
The OS is currently not finished due to the last minute addition of a large amount of ram.
When it is finished I'm sure it will be and I'm sure any ram that it doesn't need will be handed over to the developers who have been making games based on the fact there has been less ram available anyway.
If the PS4 had 3GB of Gddr5 for games compared to the Xboxes 5GB of ddr3 the PS4 would still be the preferable machine even if any of that did not happen.
AquaMotley
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Great. Waste valuable RAM on a stupid feature for the "let's play" crowd.
Why can't it be 1 gig for OS ... 7 for games. That'll last you a lot longer. Don't care about stupid music/video/social garbage they'll surely introduce and needs all the additional memory.
I really hope this story is bullshit.
Poetic.Injustice
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From 5.5 to 4.5. Who knows where we will be next week. :lol
This thread got sad really quickly. It's like Xbox peeps have this pent up anger about the past 2 months and it's time to party like it's 1999 because the PS4 ram is now equal in quantity to the XB1, while ignoring the fact that there is still a major deficit in the all important bandwidth department.
I say this as someone who is likely buying an XB1 this fall, and not the PS4.
Pretty much.
The xbox has had soooo many bad threads that some are looking for a chance to revel in ps4 bad news... you could taste the enjoyment!
Ps4 will be PS3.
ThisWreckage
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This thread got sad really quickly. It's like Xbox peeps have this pent up anger about the past 2 months and it's time to party like it's 1999 because the PS4 ram is now equal in quantity to the XB1, while ignoring the fact that there is still a major deficit in the all important bandwidth department.
I say this as someone who is likely buying an XB1 this fall, and not the PS4.
Truer words have never been spoken.
This is a lesson as to why you shouldn't blow your lid.
Senor Kami
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Except he hasn't. Why lie?
Wait, you mean Blowgate/Jon180 wasn't real?
Hmm, that Twitter looks German though. Probably fake propaganda or something.
Dictator93
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Alas, poor Hulky.. we knew him not.
The ultimate BC.
This thread is going to be horrible: I will return later to see what has happend.
x86_64 processors can address up to 16 exabytes of memory though in reality it's lowly petabytes.
With less ram and witouth GPU, of course and the price will be 999 us dollars.
sono
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Source?
It still has 8GB of GDDR5 RAM.
People are confused in that they seemingly thought the console boot up screen would just say "insert disc" and it would go straight to the game.
These aren't purely game consoles anymore, they have to be all-in-one systems that do everything in order to compete.
You'd think people would have learnt this from current-gen.
Black Republican
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This thread got sad really quickly. It's like Xbox peeps have this pent up anger about the past 2 months and it's time to party like it's 1999 because the PS4 ram is now equal in quantity to the XB1, while ignoring the fact that there is still a major deficit in the all important bandwidth department.
I say this as someone who is likely buying an XB1 this fall, and not the PS4.
It happens on both sides, you missed the XB1 threads with Sony fans ragging on its 5GB mem?
This news just keeps on giving, honestly it's not that the next-gen consoles won't do good things with what they got but if they gotta go 8 years like the last generation i foresee alot of issues, i guess we gotta be happy they didn't cut the ram but still so much for the OS part is questionable.
shinra-bansho
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Oh yay, a new thread. Wait, the new source is a guy from B3D based on above post?
And could someone elaborate on what exactly they are on about with there being some sort of limited virtual memory that was being counted?
So are they saying that OS reserves are 3GB of physical RAM, game OS has 4.5GB of physical RAM, with potential to access 512MB of additional physical RAM?
It still boggles the mind that Sony would be adding $45 in BoM per unit to increase the game RAM by 1GB and essentially use the rest for increasing OS reserves.
And could someone elaborate on what exactly they are on about with there being some sort of limited virtual memory that was being counted?
So are they saying that OS reserves are 3GB of physical RAM, game OS has 4.5GB of physical RAM, with potential to access 512MB of additional physical RAM?
It still boggles the mind that Sony would be adding $45 in BoM per unit to increase the game RAM by 1GB and essentially use the rest for increasing OS reserves.
fabricated backlash
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Seems like an apt summary of the last few days.
Because, what from what I've read on here from insiders, the amount of RAM is simply not a limiting factor at this point in time.
Besides, the amount is not finalised anyway, it can quite easily go up or down from this point onwards and the OS will certainly become more RAM-efficient after launch.
I don't get this memory thing, but would be cool if they put some insurance for Vita off-play.
Its not like those launch game gonna use 7GB of RAM either bro lulz.
Its not like those launch game gonna use 7GB of RAM either bro lulz.
freenudemacusers
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amazing
Seems like an apt summary of the last few days.
WTF? Is this real?
BruiserBear
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I guess I never cared, so yeah. But there is a difference IMO. Microsoft have made it very clear they intend to use those 3 gigs for windows and all sorts of other stuff. Sony hasn't, and while I'm sure their OS is gonna be robust too, I cannot fathom it using 3.5 gigs. I believe Sony is being hyper careful right now, and just limiting launch games to 4.5 gigs, which is still massive with the bandwidth they have, and in the future they'll likely give back a gig of that RAM to games. In other words, these numbers are temporary.
hokagespit
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Wait, you mean Blowgate/Jon180 wasn't real?
Hmm, that Twitter looks German though. Probably fake propaganda or something.
fresh screen cap. still there
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