Third-party devs surprised by PS4's 8GB memory

Sony told developers console would ship with 4GB RAM, says Just Add Water CEO

Sony kept all but its closest studios in the dark about its decision to give the PS4 8GB GDDR5 RAM, says Just Add Water CEO Stewart Gilray.
Gilray's studio already had their dev kit, and was working on a secret title for the new console, but didn't find out about the real specs until the unveiling on February 20th.

"We were told [PS4] was 4GB originally and we first knew it had 8GBs when Mark said at the event's stage, 'And it has 8GB of memory.' We'd had kits at that point for a good while," Gilray told Videogamer.
While it is likely that "a couple of really close first-parties" knew about the 8GBs before the event, Gliray says that "most third-parties, were in the dark and happy with 4GB.
One of the benefits of the additional memory is that Sony has fenced in its system memory so that developers don't have to worry about it.

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