Comments on: The PS3 Now Has 70MB of Additional RAM? http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/ Thu, 23 May 2013 22:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/#comment-244451 James Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:51:32 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=18506#comment-244451 Every meg counts. Good news! Every meg counts. Good news!

]]> By: EdEN http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/#comment-244431 EdEN Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:02:41 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=18506#comment-244431 So they could be using this for GoW III and other games released this year? Go figure... So they could be using this for GoW III and other games released this year? Go figure…

]]> By: Bobbins http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/#comment-244407 Bobbins Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:41:57 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=18506#comment-244407 SEVENTY MB!! it's a LOT on console, you can do a lot with these SEVENTY MB!! it’s a LOT on console, you can do a lot with these

]]> By: Emrah http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/#comment-244393 Emrah Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:27:16 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=18506#comment-244393 Andy, they did not / cannot acquire any memory by removing the "other os" support. The other os feature does not continuously eat up any memory during gameplay, tho it may effect the size of the firmware size. If it had caused games to use less memory, just because Sony lets users to install "other os", it would have been very stupid for sony to have included it in the first place. The fat Ps3's still have the other os feature anyway, although it is rumoured to be removed in future revisions, for other reasons. My guessing is the extra 70mb comes from both optimizations of the existing PS3 Os, and the conservative estimates of Sony. They probably reserved too much memory for the OS, being not able to know how much the essential / cosmetic features they wanted to add later on. Let's remember that PS3 didn't even do background downloading of content when it first came out. It didn't have in game XMB, much needed feature.. They had probably reserved a conservative amount of memory early on, but after they implemented these with smaller memory foot-prints, they started giving back the memory they had reserved. Andy, they did not / cannot acquire any memory by removing the “other os” support. The other os feature does not continuously eat up any memory during gameplay, tho it may effect the size of the firmware size.

If it had caused games to use less memory, just because Sony lets users to install “other os”, it would have been very stupid for sony to have included it in the first place.

The fat Ps3′s still have the other os feature anyway, although it is rumoured to be removed in future revisions, for other reasons.

My guessing is the extra 70mb comes from both optimizations of the existing PS3 Os, and the conservative estimates of Sony. They probably reserved too much memory for the OS, being not able to know how much the essential / cosmetic features they wanted to add later on. Let’s remember that PS3 didn’t even do background downloading of content when it first came out. It didn’t have in game XMB, much needed feature..

They had probably reserved a conservative amount of memory early on, but after they implemented these with smaller memory foot-prints, they started giving back the memory they had reserved.

]]> By: Andy http://www.ps3blog.net/2010/02/23/the-ps3-now-has-70mb-of-additional-ram/#comment-244390 Andy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:31:33 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=18506#comment-244390 By removing 70MB of features from the OS (e.g. Install other OS support), they've given a tiny bit of room back to Game Developers. I'd rather have the 70MB of features please! By removing 70MB of features from the OS (e.g. Install other OS support), they’ve given a tiny bit of room back to Game Developers.

I’d rather have the 70MB of features please!

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