Meanwhile, the OS on an Xbox One eats 3Gb of RAM, even when games are running: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/report-os-overhead-tak...
PS4 has a similar memory overhead for the OS.
Modern consoles are nothing like the old-school ones where once a game was running it had nigh on total control of the underlying hardware.
Meanwhile, the OS on an Xbox One eats 3Gb of RAM, even when games are running: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/report-os-overhead-tak...
PS4 has a similar memory overhead for the OS.
Modern consoles are nothing like the old-school ones where once a game was running it had nigh on total control of the underlying hardware.