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It's probably been asked before, but is there any chance of bundles being available on launch? Or with the massive demand, are you guys more likely just to sell everything individually?
 

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It's probably been asked before, but is there any chance of bundles being available on launch? Or with the massive demand, are you guys more likely just to sell everything individually?
I was told the other day at EB that there won't be any bundles.
 

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I was told the other day at EB that there won't be any bundles.
I'm quite happy waiting for mid year sales next year. I've got more than enough games ahead with my steam summer sale stash and GTAV ahead and I'm sure I'll pick up The Last of Us once prices drop (Christmas specials?)
 

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I'm quite happy waiting for mid year sales next year. I've got more than enough games ahead with my steam summer sale stash and GTAV ahead and I'm sure I'll pick up The Last of Us once prices drop (Christmas specials?)
If BF4 wasn't a release title I'm sure I would have done something similar, but can't miss out on my battlefield fix with BigFooty Crew
 

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If BF4 wasn't a release title I'm sure I would have done something similar, but can't miss out on my battlefield fix with BigFooty Crew
Fairy's muff.

I haven't tried BF yet, have downloaded BF3 on PS+ but my attention has been elsewhere and want to get a bit of single player practice before getting my arse handed to me (also need to grab a headset)
 

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Fairy's muff.

I haven't tried BF yet, have downloaded BF3 on PS+ but my attention has been elsewhere and want to get a bit of single player practice before getting my arse handed to me (also need to grab a headset)
Single player won't help you at all online.

Running with us will.
 

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It's probably been asked before, but is there any chance of bundles being available on launch? Or with the massive demand, are you guys more likely just to sell everything individually?
Nothing heard yet. Might be a while too before we finalise what we are doing

Its up to our buying department to get that stuff sorted
 

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3.5GB of PlayStation 4 RAM Reportedly Reserved for OS

4.5GB usable for games, plus 1GB of “flexible memory.”


A new rumor suggests that PlayStation 4 developers will be able to use less than 70% of PlayStation 4’s RAM for games.

While Sony’s new console will contain 8GB of DDR5 memory total, Digital Foundry reports that 3.5GB of that space is reserved for the operating system, leaving only 4.5GB available for games. Anonymous sources clarified to Digital Foundry that 1GB of the reserved RAM is available as “flexible memory” and “may be reclaimed from the OS reservation, based on availability,” making 5.5GB potentially accessible.
Internal Sony documents suggest that 4.5GB is the “baseline amount of guaranteed memory available” for games, but that the additional 1GB of “flexible memory” can be used by devs to “boost elements of the game” as long as the memory isn’t needed by PlayStation 4’s OS. PS4 dev kits currently contain a “Game Memory Budget Mode” that offers “normal” and “large” options, with normal allowing for 4.5GB of memory usage by games, while “large” boosts that number to 5.25GB.
More at http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/07/26/35gb-of-playstation-4-ram-reportedly-reserved-for-os
 

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Guess we'll be seeing a lot of OS integration if its using that sort of RAM. That awkward video advertising the social aspect and quick transitions from game to store looks set to come true then. Was sort of expecting it considering it'll be running a lot of background tasks (being able to download whilst playing multiplayer will be a godsend) and i imagine constantly recording your gameplay would be eating up a bit too.

Wonder where that 1gb flexible memory will come from if devs were to utilise it though.

Disappointing but still stronger specs than the X1 :thumbsu: and much more than the PS3's paltry 512mb RAM.
 

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Really like the idea of going mostly digital, and downloading all my games when the PS4 comes around, but how big are these games going to be? Don't think I can wait for 20-40gb games to download.
 

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I thought you could choose to download mp or sp first which is good but I didn't think you could actually play the game :eek:

You could play The Last of Us after around 60-65% had downloaded, so I assume it would be using a similar method to that, only better (hopefully). Once you started playing, there was an menu option in game to see how much had downloaded.
 

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Guess we'll be seeing a lot of OS integration if its using that sort of RAM. That awkward video advertising the social aspect and quick transitions from game to store looks set to come true then. Was sort of expecting it considering it'll be running a lot of background tasks (being able to download whilst playing multiplayer will be a godsend) and i imagine constantly recording your gameplay would be eating up a bit too.

Wonder where that 1gb flexible memory will come from if devs were to utilise it though.

Disappointing but still stronger specs than the X1 :thumbsu: and much more than the PS3's paltry 512mb RAM.
Sony clarified part of this rumor. They didn't confirm these numbers.

They did clarify the shared memory aspect, the supposed 1GB of shared memory part is 500mb controlled by the OS but available exclusively for games and the other half is a slow virtual swap file memory (which can be used for in game music, sounds or other code and pulls things of the Hard Drive).

So the PS4 has at least 5GB (potentially 5.5) of GDDR5 for PS4, + a swap file that can be used for other in game.

There is also probably a difference between the PS4 OS systems current resource use (rumored to be around 1GB) and the reserved amount of RAM (rumored to be 3.5GB). As the PS4 evolves the OS will no doubt grow with updates and also become more efficient and use less RAM elsewhere, however it's also just as possible that the pool RAM available for games will also increase by some amount.
 

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I wouldn't be suprised its an artificial limit as well.

I know it sounds strange but as the generation goes on, people expect games to get a lot better. Uncharted 1 to Last of Us,
These arn't PC's so as they decrease the footprint of the OS, they will release more ram. (In place of people getting used to the hardware etc)
 
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