Only 4.5 GB of ram available to games on ps4

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Rumor has the breakdown as the following

4.5 guaranteed

1 is flexible available to dev but it's heap memory not stack as of now.

essentially 5.5

1.5 for the OS

1 bookmarked for things they may need to add to os (in reaction to features in xbone which become popular for eg party chat for ps3)

They could free up the 1 back from os in the future and streamline the rest accordingly . Basically Sony is playing it safe . Also devs seem that some of these comments and discussions are way overblown and are happy with the ram available .

Bottom line 5.5 at launch or so. More later but that could take time

Once again with the random gaff "insider info"

What was reported in the eurogamer article is what's the truth at this point. Everything else is speculation.
 
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i don't really get loyalty to Sony. when it comes to gaming i'm only loyal to my taste in it and not a corporation.

i've been a fan since psone ... has given me great gaming moments so they have earned my money. Now if they had come out and be all xbox like before the policy change, i would have been like :pacspit: Sony.

Again like i said, they've done nothing to dissuade me from picking up a ps4.
 

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This thread is great :heh: the gaf thread is too with dudes posting screenshots of them canceling their preorders.

Like someone says earlier I just care about the Sony exclusives and a few multiplatform games..plus my friends are all team Sony :manny: I'm a casual and have never been as hardcore as alot of these dudes online. Not once have I made a post about specs or whatever hell I'm still learning :ohhh:
 

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What the hell kinda OS are they running that needs 3 GBs of ram? shyt windows vista only really had to have 2 GBs. What types of complex stuff could a game console be doing especially when it isn't doing Xbox One style multi-tasking?

Yeah, but the amount RAM starts adding up if you're going be multi-tasking & running apps/programs in the background on any OS.
 

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You guys are ridiculous. This is horrible news. People were already doubting the power of the DDR5. Now this is a reason to. You can't tell me you aren't upset to learn that the games will be using 2.5gb less ram. I would be. I am mad it won't be. PC gamers are laughing right now.

Are you serious? There's a reason that PC Graphics Cards that use DDR3 RAM instead of GDDR5 RAM are cheap as shyt on newegg.com. Why don't you buy a 1 of those cheap graphics card that uses DDR3 RAM & see how that perform against a Midrange/High-end graphics card that uses GDDR5 RAM.
 
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The Xbots in this thread are literally playing dumb & ignorant, just for the sake of have another console war thread.
:mindblown: what are you talking about.

It was y'all running around talking about how much more powerful the ps4 is and how it's so easy to develop for and 6 months ahead of Xbox. And playstaion was all about games while Xbox is just a glorified cable box.

Now everyday as more info is released we are learning that that's not the case. It's y'all playing dumb and ignorant like Sony didnt lie to you and you didn't run around championing their lies.

Sorry it's ok to be :mad: just quit making excuses and trying to spin the story
 
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