7.5 GB usable RAM means there is a portion reserved for the system (reserved RAM = total system RAM - 7.5 GB) and this (7.5 GB usable RAM) is the remainder available to developers.
@samurai1: Not the same situation. If there is a Lockhart, all indications are that the CPU is identical, perhaps downclocked a bit. The GPU is scaled back, targeting lower resolutions, just as you would buy a videocard to fit your monitor and desired resfresh rates. The CPU is competitive, even by PC standards, at this very moment.
When PS4 and XBox came where imminent, the hardware was a race to the bottom. PS4 Pro and One X came out years later, with the same weak CPUs, slightly upclocked.
@gamingdevil800: The early games like HALO: Infinite has been in development for several years, so why bother faking it like they could not run on current gen systems in a diminished capacity? It would be like releasing TLOU2 on PS5 only, so you sell 100k instead of 4 million copies in the same time period.
@tingtong: The internet has aloud society to spin out of control. There is good and bad of course. It's the low-level, everyday stuff that is insidious. Aspects that seem harmless that take hold and become detrimental, because people use (or abuse) then unchecked. It's like emergent decadence.
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