PlayStation University has revealed that Sony has increased and released extra RAM for developers to work with via December 2009's firmware update.
The PS3's OS used to require 120MB to operate. Now it's been reduced to 50MB. This has given developers an extra 70MB of rockin' RAM. Very cool!
This reminds me of when Sony updated the PSP's firmware to 3.50 way back on May 31st, 2007. Sony capped the portable system's CPU to 266 MHz, to lengthen it's battery life. When the new firmware was released, it allowed developers full access to the CPU which is 333 MHz. God of War: Chains of Olympus was one of the first titles to utilize this extra power and it shows.
It'll be interesting to see what devs have up their sleeves with a little extra space to work with on the PS3.
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