Averagejoe
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We're still quite a way from renderfarm CG and 1GB is a big difference. Devs will fill up RAM given, heck devs like Crytek asked publicly for 8GB of RAM as minimum because they want to put in better assets in games.
There is no guarantee multiplat devs will use PS4 as lead. They didn't use PS3 for much of this gen multiplat titles. I'm just not sure you can stream in 1GB deficit worth of data.
And obviously MS is reserving 3GB for a good reasons. Maybe there are more build in features, that are useful once gamers get the taste of it. And these features, if are implemented on PS4 requires some RAM, you know like much of PS3 in game features, thus reducing more of PS4 RAM pool. 4GB is a huge deficit anyway you look at it.
No is not when GDDR5 is way faster..
And Crytec asking for 8GB means nothing,when 3GB is reserve for system,5GB DDR3 will not have a big impact on the PS4,i just don't see it even less with sony they are use to work always ram starved,since the PS1 days.
The 720 will have more features for sure,but i don't think sony will go for those,specially when the PS4 is say to have just 512MB for system,i think the PS4 will more gaming oriented and less app oriented,that doesn't mean you will not see,facebook,twitter,cross game party chat and invites,but MS will surely have more features probably video chat while online playing and things like that.
There is not doubt in my mind that MS will have a much feature rich console than Sony,but probably sony will have one with much better looking games.