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ackblom12:
Well, considering that you'll have the capability of running the entire GUI in the background,  video streaming and recording and numerous other stuff, it doesn't really surprise me. There's a lot going on at any given time if they're doing what they claim to be doing with the dashboard capabilities in game.

snalin:
So Win 7 uses 200-250 MB RAM when idling if the googles are correct. If it's doing stuff, you probably need the double. Add in background downloads (which I think was a thing) which implies continuous writing to disk at the rate of your download speed, live social services, video recording, video streaming, etc. etc... It needs a bunch. Of course most users won't be using all of that at once, but Sony doesn't want the system to crash or slow down, so Sony is going to ensure that if you actually do all of the stuff you can, you can still run your game. There's probably also a couple of hundred of megs of safety buffer, just in case there's some memory-heavy feature that'll show up down the road that Sony needs to implement to stay competitive. Like teleporting tech or whatever.

J:
US Navy Serviceman on Xbox One 24hr Online Check-in: “A Sin”, “Microsoft has Single Handedly Alienated the Entire Military”

LTK:
That was one-and-a-half months ago. They dropped it.

Lupercal:
I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next year or so, the Android console market starts to heat up. I want to talk about Ouya etc a bit here, and I'm not sure starting another thread is really necessary. It's not "next gen", and it's laughable that reviewers think that creators of Ouya and Gamestick have it in mind that they'll compete with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, but I think it's a relevant part of the ever changing landscape of "next gen gaming".

In essence, this is becoming one of the first times that gamers are being actively encouraged to make games, tinker with your console's software and hardware, and hell, even enjoy emulators on them (using ROMs of games you own legally, of course). This kind of freedom definitely flies in the face of Microsoft's warranty-ruining rules (want to get a quieter fan for your 360? No XBL for you!) and Nintendo's awful online shop/retro experience for the Wii U. I suppose it also battles the current backwards compatibility woes, but you're obviously not going to get a 360/PS3 emulator any time soon.

Affordable open source consoles are exciting, possibly more exciting than finding out what the fuck Microsoft are actually doing come November.

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